God of Old Testament was a loving one, MSU institute teacher says
PROVO — A college student asked Mormon Institute of Religion teacher David L. Draut about something that had been troubling her.
"Brother Draut," she asked, "why is God so harsh in the Old Testament and then so kind in the New Testament?"
"He's not," Draut answered her. "He's the same consistent, wonderful, gracious, kind, merciful, God of justice he has always been."
Draut told a class at the 38th annual Sperry Symposium at Brigham Young University about this encounter with his student. He told of six ways that Jesus Christ, who was called Jehovah in the Old Testament, expressed loving kindness before New Testament times.
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