God is Love (1 Jn 4)
Love is not jealous (1 Cor 13)
I am a jealous God (Exodus, Deuteronomy)
2006-09-02 08:51:16 · 27 answers · asked by strpenta 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It isn't, you should add in there too that the Bible is supposed to be absolute truth, which is literally impossible considering things like what you said. A bunch of old Jews that needed explanations for life's mysteries wrote the Bible, it is bound to be imperfect.
2006-09-02 08:56:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Old Testament times the Israelites sometimes worshipped idols rather than worshipping the one, true God! That is why God said He was a Jealous God!
I Corinthians 13 is considered the Love Chapter in the Bible! When Paul wrote that Love is not Jealous he was describing an attribute of what love is! When a person truly loves another they will not be jealous of them but will love them for who they are!
When the Bible says that God is Love it is describing an attribute of God! Just because God Loves us does not mean that he overlooks what we do! He loves us so much that He does not want us to stay the way we are!
2006-09-02 09:09:37 · answer #2 · answered by zoril 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reading it in hebrew.
It radically changes the meaning of the verses.
For instance:
"Ask, and you will recieve,"
"Seek, and it will be found,"
"Knock, and the door will be open"
That's what almsot every english bible says. People take that to mean, 'Oh, God says if I ask He'll give me what I want'
The literal translation is this:
"KEEP asking, and you will recieve,"
"KEEP seeking, and it will be found,"
"KEEP knocking, and the door will be open"
Telling people to have faith, and stick with what they're doing, and if they need something and INTERCEDE (not pray once and be done) then God will make is so, if it is in His will to do so.
This is only one example. There are many more where we misunderstand the bible through misinterpertation.
Want another example?
"God is the great comforter"
That line is greatly misunderstood. What does the word 'Comfort' mean? Not what you think it does... It literally means, in old english,(We're just too lazy to update our translations I guess) 'Comfort' literally means 'to harden or prepare. To make strong' Want proof of that? In england there exists a huge tapestry of the french army invading england back, oh... 500? years ago. It shows different scenes of the army as it marches, and has(in english) statements under each scene. One of the statements say this "Priest ______ comforts his men" (I forget the name) The picture above it has what? Him laying his hand on a soldiers shoulder, and giving him encoruagement? NO! He 'comforts' the soldier, by jabbing him in the back with the blunt side pf spear. Completely against our current view of comforting.
2006-09-02 09:03:44 · answer #3 · answered by Benanen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because jealous has differing meanings
there can be a positive type... a person who rightly owns some thins can have partitive jealousy if his wife pays no attention to him... he may be jealous in an appropriate positive way
a person can have negative jealously is they are over controlling or if you mean envy, wanting something that DOES NOT belong to you and cant be happy for the other person
so in the end, there are many cases of a description where a quality can be positive or negative depending on the intended sense and this is an example
2006-09-02 08:55:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is speaking of people making idols and bowing down and worshiping those idols instead of giving God the worship that belongs to Him. God is possessive of the worship and service that belong to Him. It is a sin (as God points out in this commandment) to worship or serve anything other than Him. So, in summary, it is a sin when we desire or we are envious or we are jealous of someone because he has something that we do not have and that does not belong to us. It is a different use of the word jealous when God says He is jealous. What He is jealous for belongs to Him; worship and service belong to Him alone and are to be given to Him alone.
2006-09-02 08:57:01 · answer #5 · answered by pooh bear 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question!!! God is love. God created man in his image, which means that of any being ever created God is capable of feeling love greater than any human ever could be capable. Having said that, God is jealous in that He will not tolerate people worshiping any other God. The scripture in 1 Corinthians refers to the human act of love, and that if you love someone, you should do so without jealosy........does that cover it?
2006-09-02 08:57:14 · answer #6 · answered by mom3kids&adog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems to say that God isn't really God, taken out of context. Since it is taken out of context, the mean can get lost. The third quiote means the same as one of the commandments not to have other (false) gods, or deeper, not to place something or someone on the level of God, example: money. Here, you can take these words out of context and make the speaker say all sorts of crazy things via this link:
2006-09-02 08:57:18 · answer #7 · answered by Iamstitch2U 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It seems so strange that people don't understand that God isn't really a person at all. If there is a God like person I doubt he has anything to be jealous about. You think that God spends all his time worrying if you will worship him or not. If you don't believe he will make you burn in eternal torture forever. You are truly duped. Same as the terrorists who think they will get 70 virgins when they blow them selves up along with some evil others. You are all so gullible. Why don't you start to think for yourselves. Do not let any religion manipulate you. Let it go..;.
2006-09-02 09:02:10 · answer #8 · answered by yuvid6 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
deuteronoly 4: 24 24for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming -- a zealous God. (Young's Literal Translation)
Obviously the translater saw a different word there than the one in ! Corinthians.
2006-09-02 08:59:53 · answer #9 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you know one word can have several meanings. in "love is not jealous". that jealous means evny or hate. just like you see some one with a nice car, and you dont like that person because they have something you cant afford. the jealous in "i am a jealous God" is when you see your wife hugging and kissing on another man, and you ask her i thought i was your husband? and God asks i thought i was God.
2006-09-02 08:59:07 · answer #10 · answered by Han_dang 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋