Did their view change over time?

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I don't know if this is the right forum to place this, but if it isn't please move it.

I'm still chugging along my reading of the OT,[currently in 2 Chronicles}..and I'm starting to wonder something.

Is the OT showing us how the Jews view of God has changed over the years? His slow revelation to them over time? From reading 1&2 Kings and now working my way through 1&2 Chronicles I am noticing that.. maybe.. the Jews view of God changed between pre-exile, exile, and post-exile.

I get the impression that they believed that God was seated firmly in the land of Israel over the ark, but once that was taken away they understood that God was actually not limited to a box of gold and wood in a building. Am I wrong in this assumption? Obviously, with their rampart idolatry they seem to have totally misunderstood or grossly underestimated the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God.
 

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There are many theme's running in the scriptures. They are all connected in many ways as well. It's a very complex set of documents, yet at the same time simple. Enough to have kept my attentions for a good long while.

One of my favorite themes is the amplification of law, exponentially.

One law in the garden.
Numerous additions in Noahide laws
Explosion of laws with Moses
Living Law, Jesus
Anything not of faith being sin (a transgression of law) in N.T.

If we look around today the world is literally swimming in laws.

Law was always for applied to the lawless/sinners. Usually results in judgments, dire.

We are all sinners.

There is an end to the cycles of lawlessness promised by God in the Gospels/N.T.

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I don't know if this is the right forum to place this, but if it isn't please move it.

I'm still chugging along my reading of the OT,[currently in 2 Chronicles}..and I'm starting to wonder something.

Is the OT showing us how the Jews view of God has changed over the years? His slow revelation to them over time? From reading 1&2 Kings and now working my way through 1&2 Chronicles I am noticing that.. maybe.. the Jews view of God changed between pre-exile, exile, and post-exile.

I get the impression that they believed that God was seated firmly in the land of Israel over the ark, but once that was taken away they understood that God was actually not limited to a box of gold and wood in a building. Am I wrong in this assumption? Obviously, with their rampart idolatry they seem to have totally misunderstood or grossly underestimated the omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence of God.

I think that God's word thru His dealings are a gradual unveiling of His character in the OT and moves to a complete unveiling in the NT when His Kingdom is defined by His character
 
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They definitely do change their opinions and understandings, just as we do. No one really believes that a monastic life is the higest form of piety anymore, but 500 & + years ago it was all the rage.

Read Samuel and Chronicles in parallel passages and see the differences in those texts reflecting differences in understanding. Especially places like 1 Chronicles 21:1 & 2 Samuel 24:1 where God and Satan are ascribed to the same action.
 
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They definitely do change their opinions and understandings, just as we do. No one really believes that a monastic life is the higest form of piety anymore, but 500 & + years ago it was all the rage.

Read Samuel and Chronicles in parallel passages and see the differences in those texts reflecting differences in understanding. Especially places like 1 Chronicles 21:1 & 2 Samuel 24:1 where God and Satan are ascribed to the same action.

Well I already read 1&2 Samuel 2 weeks ago and I'm on 2 Chronicles right now.. which is why I prompted the question. I find it interesting how God's revelation changed. It looks like he started with something simple, with something the Jews were familiar with, and moved from that.
 
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Dear ChristsSoldier115 the answer can be understood in

Galatians 4:2 but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

In the law the people were like a child that does not understand the spirituality that is to not walk in the spirit that is to focus on the materialism first... like to have more earth and to be purified to not be unclean and to not eat some things and there were people that did not believe in the resurrection of the dead too, but in the new testament God finally materialized with the Spirit in a body to lift us with him from the materialistic human nature and to save us.

And God fulfilled a previous time with his only begotten Son.

I see it too like the old testament was a time of prophecies, and with all that the people did not listen to God and they killed his prophets. It is all in the plan of God, like when the people demanded a king God knew that they will desire that Deuteronomy 17:14 and in the end God did the job himself and He has control over everything.

The same thing like they desired a king a long time ago they expected the Messiah to be more interested in the materialism and God told them no:

John 8:23 And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Romans 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Matthew 6:19 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
1 Timothy 6:17 Command those who are rich in this present age not to be haughty, nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy. 18 Let them do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to give, willing to share, 19 storing up for themselves a good foundation for the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.

The plan for the humanity has a course, it was in A and it will be in Z, the plan of God does not change and we may see that it took another course when actually a step in the plan of God is to change us or to make us grow, there was the old testament and there is the new testament too yet the new did not deny the old because it is all in the plan of God. And God prepares his way, like with prophets like John the baptist and where Jesus went he sent forth disciples sometimes, and God was preparing the people of the old testament. On verses about all this:

Proverbs 1:22 “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
For scorners delight in their scorning,
And fools hate knowledge.
23 Turn at my rebuke;
Surely I will pour out my spirit on you;
I will make my words known to you.
Romans 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. 13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, was producing death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin.

Isaiah 55: “Ho! Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

Psalm 50:8 I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices
Or your burnt offerings,
Which are continually before Me.
9 I will not take a bull from your house,
Nor goats out of your folds.
10 For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.
12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
For the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls,
Or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God thanksgiving,
And pay your vows to the Most High.
15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”
 
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