False Doctrine that God the Father was the God of the Old Testament.

The Bible teaches that Christ never sinned. The Bible teaches that it is a sin to lie. If God the Father was the God of the Old Testament, who revealed Himself to Israel, and who spoke face to face to Moses - then Jesus Christ is a liar. Christ is no liar. 

John 5:37   " And the Father Himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. "

These are the very words of Jesus Christ.

1 John 4:12   "  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. "

John 1:18   "   No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared Him. "

The scriptures are very plain here. However, some might mention some scriptures that appear to contradict this. Let us list and refute some of these now.

Mathew 3:16-17    "  And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:  And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. "

Whose voice was this ? Many assume this was the voice of God the Father, since the voice said  " this is my beloved son."   Now remember that Christ taught plainly that no man (except Christ of course - who was part human, and God in the flesh) has ever seen God the Father's shape or heard His voice. 

The explanation should be very simple. God the Father sent one of His Angels to deliver a message from Him. The message was from God the Father, but it wasn't delivered directly by God the Father, but by one of His servants - and this almost certainly was one of the Angels - perhaps Gabriel, or Michael. 

John 12:28-30   "  Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.  The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. "

Once again this is a message being delivered by an Angelic being. Just because the voice used the personal pronoun " I "  doesn't automatically mean it was God the Father's voice they heard. 

The Word Was the God of the Old Testament

The God who humbled Himself and came to this earth in the form of the human being Jesus Christ, was the one who revealed Himself to Israel, and who spoke face to face with prophets like Moses and His servant Abraham. 

John 1: 1-5   " In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by Him; and without Him was not any thing made that was made.  In Him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. "

John 1: 9-14   "  That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.  He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:  Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.  And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth. "

The Word was with God, and the Word was God. This may sound perplexing, but it isn't. The Godhead consists of two Gods. When the Word was born as the human being Jesus Christ - then the other member of the Godhead became God the Father. Before that He wasn't God the Father - the family relationship began when the Word came to earth as God in the flesh. 

The Gods are creating a family, and they are doing it through Jesus Christ. We can be born into that family as children of God.

Hebrews 1:8-12  " But unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.  Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.  And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;  And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. "

It was the Word (the one who was born as the human being Jesus Christ) who appeared to the prophets, and who thundered the Ten Commandments to the children of Israel, from Mt. Sinai. 

1 Corinthians 10:1-4   "   Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;  And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;  And did all eat the same spiritual meat;  And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. " 

Exodus 20:18-23   "   And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.  And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.  And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.  And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.  And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. "

Jesus Christ claimed to have been alive during the time of Abraham, and actually claimed to have conversed with Abraham. Abraham lived about 2,000 years before the time of Christ. 

John 8: 53 -59  "  Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:  Yet ye have not known Him; but I know Him: and if I should say, I know Him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know Him, and keep His saying.  Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?  Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am. "

Exodus 33:11   "  And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle. "

It should be quite clear from the scriptures. God the Word was the God of the Old Covenant. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us as the human being Jesus Christ. 

Many people don't like to hear this. They have this image of Jesus, which is a false image, and a false Christ. The effeminate, long haired hippie looking white man, is the false image they convey of Jesus. The false image of a homeless vagabond, who did away with His Father's mean old laws. 

It is time we started having a more realistic image of Christ. 

Revelation 1:10- 11   "  I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: .......... 

Revelation 1: 12-18   " And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 

" And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

"  His head and His hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and His eyes were as a flame of fire; 

"And His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and His voice as the sound of many waters.

" And He had in his right hand seven stars: and out of His mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and His countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

" And when I saw Him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid His right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: 

" I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. "