Originally Posted by North Jersey Baptist

I can't help but be amazed when I hear people categorize God as angry in the OT and displaying love, grace and mercy in the NT. Either they willfully misrepresent the character of God or they are ignorant. God's love, grace and mercy drips from the pages of the OT. From God's provision for Adam after he sinned to His calling of the pagan Ruth, not only to faith but also the Messianic line. If the OT is a symphony then the psalter is its crescendo. It is a treatise of God's benevolence towards those He loves. Conversely, the NT speaks of the eternal fires of hell and the unquenchable wrath of God, "that is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness and the unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness." God's nature does not submit to the compartmentalization of men.