2006-07-13 01:54:20 · 12 answers · asked by brianna_the_angel777 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear girl! Where have you gotten your information? Whoever has taught you about God and religion has done a truly horrible job. God isn't vengeful, angry or jealous. He is the complete opposite of those things! I wish that you knew the God that I did so that you could understand and know that Truth. God is Love!
2006-07-13 09:47:40 · answer #1 · answered by TiffNJxnMS 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A significant theological subject of the former testomony is that of Israel as God's chosen human beings, and the biblical authors were no longer previous arranging the extraordinary genocide to underline the point. no matter if those genocides easily befell is yet another remember. The extremely historic part of the Bible likely begins round a million,000BC with the coronation of Saul, possibly with some aspects of Judges also being historic. it may well be guessed that the memories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses have a historic middle, yet they're getting so thickly overlaid with legend that the heritage is no longer recoverable. there is a few signal that folk were already transforming into uneasy about the genocides even as Deuteronomy became written contained in the late sixth century BC. Buried someplace contained in the approach Deuteronomy is a verse which effectively says, "that became then, yet that's now." regardless of the indisputable fact that, God is to be feared because he's the choose of all mankind, and we are depending upon his grace for our salvation. he's likewise to be loved, because we owe our very existence to him, and that is his will to keep those who will come to him. what's sparkling from the former testomony prophets is that God does no longer tolerate any variety of idolatry, it extremely is broadly speaking the position his wrath is offered in.
2016-11-06 07:37:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is not vengeful and jealous, people are. Especially the ones who wrote religious books and claimed it to be "God's word". God is emotionless. Does this thing called God listen to all your prayers. No. He does not care. Therefore his existance does not really matter. He is not loving, he is not vengeful either.(I'm assuming that God exists)
2006-07-13 02:14:52 · answer #3 · answered by avik_d2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that he is all of those things: love, vengeful, angry and jealous. Anyone who says otherwise is lying or deep in denial.
The problem is that the God that is portayed in the Bible is one envisioned by humans that read the Bible as the literal truth.
"To them he is a King that demands to be worshipped. He is the ultimate aristocrat who will shower his favor arbitrarily on someone someday and order their execution the next. He is a fickle lord who will listen to the prayers of his favorites, by providing them with a parking space here and good luck in a sporting event there, while completely ignoring the prayers of the millions dying of AIDS or starvation. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, it is no wonder that the literalist's God is as corrupt as any feudal baron.
"The literalist's God is an old-fashioned Victorian father who is ready to punish his children brutally to discipline them. He expects blind obedience and rarely offers explanations for his seemingly arbitrary judgements. He likes rules and hates free-thinking. He wants us to shut up and do as we are told. And our reward for compliance will be enrollment in the afterlife kindergarten in Heaven.
"Surely it is time to leave behind such infantile conceptions.
"The literalist's God is a big person with a whole load of opinions. But his opinions turn out to be suspciously like the opinions of the particular prophets that relay them to the rest of us. And each prophet produces a different set of opinions that purport to be divine. This has left us arguing endlessly over what God's opinions really are.
"But there are broad areas of agreement. God is a misogynist (woman-hater). And he isn't keen on sex. Especially not for pleasure. And definately not between members of the same sex, because that is obviously just for pleasure.
"God has opnions on everything, but they vary depending upon which literalist religion you subscribe to. He doesn't like men trimming the hair around their temples. He likes women to cover their heads or preferably the whole of their bodies. He likes big beards. He doesn't like pork of shellfish. He likes fish on Friday.
"Do we really want a God with such peculiar fashion sense and arbitrary dietary preferences?
"According to the myths such as (the book of) Genesis, God is the creator of the cosmos. But science has presented us with all the evidence we need to reject the idea that God created the world in seven days some six thousand years ago. Many people still cling to this silly idea, but their attempts to explain away the findings of science are getting ever more desparate. Is it really credible that God deliberately hid dinosaur bones so that when we dug them up and concluded that giant reptiles walked the earth millions of years ago, our blind faith in the veracity of the Bible would be put to the test? Such a God would be pathologically insane!"
This was a quote from a book that I am currently reading by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy called 'The Laughing Jesus'. This quote really sums up our confusion about God. Please read the book if you want more information. It will wake you up about the damage that literalism has gotten us into and how a more tolerant knowledge can get us out of it. It really makes a lot of sense. It is changing my outlook and my life.
We need to stop reading the Bible as the literal truth and dig a bit deeper in the allegory and metaphor that we can apply to our lives.
2006-07-13 02:33:44 · answer #4 · answered by crjensen77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think he was frankly pretty kind to you to give you life, an opportunity to explore the world you live in, and a home in a prosperous country. I'd say in fact, he was pretty darned decent to you, to be honest.
For all you've been blessed with, and for you to say this, I'd say God's pretty patient with you! ;-)
2006-07-13 02:01:40 · answer #5 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's not....he is a loving God. People display those actions and emotions, not God.
2006-07-13 01:57:53 · answer #6 · answered by Stef K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how could you tell he's vengeful, angry,and jealous?
2006-07-13 01:57:30 · answer #7 · answered by cutiekishi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that would be a question that God would need to answer for you. Maybe you should ask Him. Jesus loves you.
2006-07-13 02:00:09 · answer #8 · answered by cindy j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God is a mass of imaginary contridictions. WIth something REAL, you get facts but with something NOT, you have to guess.
2006-07-13 01:58:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like traits of your personality.
2006-07-13 02:04:45 · answer #10 · answered by tobinmbsc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋