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The Jews are all legalistic and we Christians are all full of grace and truth.
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So this idea that the Old Testament represents a God of anger,
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and a God of strictness, and a God of judgment,
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and the New Testament represents a God who's a father,
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and loving, and full of grace.
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This dualism that's so much a part of European history,
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even common sense,
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even people who are not religious will often come up with this caricature
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that the Old Testament God is the God of anger and judgment,
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the New Testament God is a the God of grace and forgiveness.
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Well that's just not true.
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If you read either testament with any care at all