“That angry God is completely missing from the New Testament.”
Don’t tell that to the men forced out of the Temple when Jesus kicked their butts...
The God of the old Testament would have then torched the town and left no survivors. Notice how Christ of the New Testament simply drives the men out of the temple without actually killing or maiming anybody.
The God of the New Testament is not the angry, vindictive God of the Old Testament. The difference is night and day, and I for one am grateful for it.
Does that mean I do not fear God. I do. He is the maker of all things and from him all things come. I do fear him. But I do not see the angry, vindictive person who so often acts in the Old Testament.
The difference is night and day.
Yes, but that was towards people looking to skim a profit off worship and keeping people from God.
Jesus was never angry with the people caught in their sin. His treatment of the prostitutes and tax collectors showed that. To tell people like that that God is angry with them is a grave disservice.
Jesus wrath was more directed towards religious hypocrisy.