If the Bible holds two gods stitched into one story, then the real question isn’t “Which one is true?” but “What happens when we finally stop pretending they’re the same?”
The Bible doesn’t read like a single revelation. It reads like a collision. On one side stands a God who walks, eats, smells, burns, and kills. On the other stands a God who whispers, forgives, dissolves boundaries, and lives inside the human chest. One is thunder. One is breath. And for two thousand years we’ve been told they are the same being. But the text itself never quite cooperates. I. The God Who Eats The Old Testament God is not abstract. He is not ethereal. He is not “spirit.” He is a deity with appetites. He: strolls through gardens in the cool of the day sits down to eat with elders on Sinai demands the smell of roasted fat kills priests for using the wrong incense guards territory like a lion reacts to touch, sound, and proximity Here's a god who behaves like the gods of the ancient Near East—storm gods, war gods, mountain gods—beings with bodies and tempers. He is not embarrassed to be physical. He is not shy about violence. He is not universal. He is Israel’s God, an...