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  The Old Testament is the story of God reaching out in love to a rebellious people. Why is this significant?

  Naoko Summers replied 1 day, 23 hours ago 255 Members · 260 Replies

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  Deborah Dessaso

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  01/23/2022 at 12:42

  Humankind’s greatest but unrealized need is to know that we need a Savior. So much behavior is rooted in guilt because God built conscience in each of us, and when that conscience has been violated, guilt results. Unfortunately, our separation from God blinds us to our need for forgiveness and reconciliation, so we try to ignore both our conscience and God with a myriad of evasive maneuvers that hide us from God and our own selves. Knowing that God truly loves us, wants to remove our guilt, and restore His relationship with us is the only message we need but always, in our rebellion, reject.

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  Sharalyn Mc kenzie

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  01/19/2022 at 18:44

  God made man to have fellowship with Him, and when man broke that relationship, because He IS LOVE, He did His best, gave His best to restore us to Him, despite man’s rebellion. This is significant so we can see that God did not give up on man, nor ever will, despite his rebellion. It is also significant to understand that the OT is not just about stories or events in the lives of the people of that day/time, but the most important lesson to be seen/learnt is God’s redemption Plan for man.

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    Deborah Dessaso

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    01/23/2022 at 12:50

    I’m you capitalized “IS LOVE” because people (and sometimes religions) have a view of God that He wants us back only so he can punish us by keeping us feeling guilty about our sinful past. Nothing could be further from the truth! God’s plan of redemption begins in the OT because it reveals the that the roots of our faith began with the Lord God of the Old Testament and ends with the Lord God of the New Testament–and they are both Jesus Christ!

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  Charlene Maestre

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  01/18/2022 at 07:28

  It proves that God shows mercy and grace to those people and give chance to repent and to turn back to Him.

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  Lucas Gagne

  Member

  01/11/2022 at 19:37

  Because that is the story of each of us as individuals.

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  Doug Hong

  Member

  01/11/2022 at 12:21

  It is significant because the rebellious people are you and me. God is reaching out the rebuild the broken relationships with us and it’s up to us to choose how to respond to His love.

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