In the Old Testament God used people to exact judgement on people who’s sin had reached the point of no return. And let’s never forget the continuous judgement and suffering God exacted on His own people for being continuously disobedient that some say continues to this day. The same thing that happened to Israel’s enemies happened to them under their own God! Again – let’s never forget that as demonstrated in The Bible, judgement begins at the house of God.
But in the New Testament we notice a distinct lack of violence – almost a better way shown and modelled by Jesus. So God appears like a fickle parent to change His mind and stop doing violence in The new Testament. Yes God does appear to stop using violence in Jesus altogether. No so fast. Out of nowhere and blind-siding the Jews who were expecting a conqueror, we do see one act of terrible violence allowed and therefore in a sense perpetrated by God himself, a quite a grisly and cruel act, and to add insult to injury – a violent act perpetrated on someone innocent of any crime.
We see this when God proves to us that He alone is the prefect and just judge and took the judgement set aside for all of us, Jews and gentiles himself and allowed the violence that we deserve to fall on His own head. I’ll let a young ex-muslim converted to Christianity explain it better than I can (I urge you to watch the entire video if you want to hear jaw-dropping muslim response to the claim that Islam is a religion of peace).
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