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Tachion: If at the moment of your death you, in your heart, knew that you ONLY had the love of others as the reason for your action then you are already in heaven.
You will be your own judge at your death.
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Wonderful theory, but these are a dime a dozen. Does everyone who comes up with their own unique path to heaven get there???
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xepherys:
God is God, but his demeanoer is certainly different between the two testaments. In the Old, He was wrathful and Vengeful against those who would not follow his path. The Jews were subjected to punishment MANY times for decades. Then some brilliant Jew would be like, "Hey! Remember how we used to do things?" and life would get better. In the New, He is a warm, fuzzy God that wants his son to be your ticket home. Aside from the Apocolypse, there isn't much bad in the New Testament.
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There are a plethora of verses in the old and new testament that speak of God as a just, holy, and righteous judge.
The old Testament discusses in a lot of ways Gods disappointment with his creation. He created them to love and serve him, but his people didn't always want to do that.
As has been said before, the OT is God showing man that man is imperfect and that by themselves man cannot be equal with God. Man was inferior. Theres a lot of bad stuff in there, and by that I mean bad people. People failing to meet Gods standard of perfection.
In the NT God provides a way for God and Man to be in fellowship. A plan to redeem mand to God. Its a happy thing. It's good.
God is the same God. Since the beginning. He jsut had different methods of dealing with his people from beginning to now.