- Love is not jealous.
- God is love.
- I am (Jehovah is speaking here) a jealous God.
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2006-09-28 19:10:53 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Being jealousness is a character trait that gets most humans in trouble, so if they really love someone they should not be jealous. God's being jealous was the closest way the inspired writer knew how to convey the concept of God not wanting us to chase after false gods.
2006-09-28 19:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by Robert L 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Sadly, jealousy almost always manifests itself from the selfish interests and misplaced anger of imperfect humans. Of course, there are certain proper manifestations of jealousy, such as when a man seeks his wife's attentions and an employer earns his worker's loyalties.
As the Creator and Almighty Sovereign of the Universe, Jehovah God rightly expects the exclusive devotion and loyalty of his creation; that is they type of proper jealousy that the Scriptures attribute to the God of Love, Jehovah.
(Exodus 20:2-5) I am Jehovah your God, who have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slaves. 3 You must not have any other gods against my face. ...I Jehovah your God am a God exacting exclusive devotion
Learn more:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2003/7/1/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/5/15/article_02.htm
Here are the Scriptural citations to which the question alludes:
(1 Corinthians 13:4) Love is not jealous
(1 John 4:8) God is love
(1 John 4:16) God is love
(Zechariah 8:2) This is what Jehovah of armies has said, 'I will be jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and with great rage I will be jealous for her
(Exodus 34:14) Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, he is a jealous God [alternate translation is "he is a God exacting exclusive devotion"]
2006-09-29 10:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Remember God is a king. A king can't have subjects swearing loyalty to other kings. But it goes deeper than that, God says, "I want your love, don't give it to a golden calf of the sun or animals or even nature. The phrase, love is not jealous was directed at men, to help teach them proper behavior. Men, who's physical bodies are under the influence of the enemy have to be very careful around jealousy. This falls in line with, don't covet or want what belongs to your neighbor. There is more than just the words you read, but the spirit behind them.
2006-09-29 02:29:57 · answer #3 · answered by RM 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
“God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 Jn 4:16). These words from the First Letter of John express with remarkable clarity the heart of the Christian faith: the Christian image of God and the resulting image of mankind and its destiny. In the same verse, Saint John also offers a kind of summary of the Christian life: “We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us”.
I am a jealous God. I want your all. I want you doing My work. You are not spreading My love when you are engulfed in a sea of despair. A day lost without My love being spread through you is a day lost for all those around you.
You might say something like no one here is hungry, and I might reply that I am hungry for your love. It sounds like a contridiction, but you are talking about food and I'm talking abut my heart. Human love is not the same as the love of God. There are many humans, there is only one God.
2006-09-29 02:26:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Love is not hate
God is a loving father
God is a jealous God and wants no other Gods (fathers) in place of or before him
You are a man
You have children
You get divorced from your wife
She remarried a nice, loving, field trip, having fun man
Your children seem to like him better than you
Deal with it.
Deal with it without hate, jealousy or demands.
2006-09-29 02:29:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Two different meaning good jealous is the respect or look out for, bad jealous is destructive.
2006-09-29 02:56:56 · answer #6 · answered by sher7us 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm christian and I can agree with you on many aspects. I've heard all the different arguments such as who created evil and who put the thought in Lucifers head and well I can't answer that question any other way but to say that God created evil. He had to have, but he has also created love and I still believe in him no matter what and I guess these are just questions that we are going to ask him when we get to heaven!
2006-09-29 02:26:54 · answer #7 · answered by I smile because of them ♥ 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nillify God's faithfulness? Not at all! Let God be true and every man a liar"(romans 3:3-4) God is love. God is jealous of where your love goes.
2006-09-29 02:32:46 · answer #8 · answered by TYRONE S 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
You need the holy spirit inside you and then the bible becomes clearer. The real question you are asking is "Why do I hate Gods guts so much"
LMAO
nah im just playing with ya.
I was trying to think like a christian. How did I do?
I was thinking of throwing in a few "unsaved moron"s in there. Maybe next time.
2006-09-29 02:26:42 · answer #9 · answered by CJunk 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
God is not jealous like people are jealous. God means do not worship false idols or follow after false gods.
People are jealous of what they do not have and covet what others do.
2006-09-29 02:16:54 · answer #10 · answered by darlndanna 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋