Monday, February 11, 2013

The Unbiblical Notion of "Two Testaments, Two Gods"

John Wenham on the unbiblical notion of two different Gods in the two Testaments:
We have had so much erroneous teaching for so many years that even intelligent people often really believe that the two Testaments represent two irreconcilably opposed points of view; the Old Testament God being a God of wrath and the New Testament God a God of love. Such a view would have been repudiated by our Lord and by every New Testament writer with horror.  To them the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are the same; in both he is a God of wrath and of love. The great difference between the Old and New Testament is that in the former the gospel (though by no means invisible) is veiled, whereas in the latter it is clearly revealed.

--John Wenham, Christ and the Bible