旧約の神と新約の神

Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend からの引用。

When, according to the Old Testament, the children of Israel are told to take over the Promised Land,they are instructed to enter Jericho and massacre every man, woman, and child in the city (Joshua 6: 1–21). Is this the same God who says to love your enemy, pray for those who persecute you, and turn the other cheek? In the Old Testament, when the prophet Elisha is mocked by a group of boys, he calls God’s wrath down upon them, and two she-bears come out of the woods and maul them to death (2 Kings 2: 23–24). Is this the same God who says, “Let the little children come unto me”? The God of the Old Testament is not the God of Jesus. Paul is the one, above all others, who recognized this, who proclaimed a radical disjunction between the law of the Jews and the gospel of Christ.

Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The Followers of Jesus in History and Legend (English Edition)

旧約の神が怒りの神、復讐の神であり、愛の神イエスの教えとそぐわず、果たしてこれが同じ一つの神といっていいのか、という疑問はよく上がるが、納得のいく説明を読んだ記憶はない。
旧約の神の非道な振る舞いは、下記の本などでも詳しく取り上げられている。

誰も教えてくれない聖書の読み方

こういった矛盾があまり問題にならないのは、クリスチャンのほとんどが旧約を読んでいないからだということだ。