He is charitable, he is loving, he is forgiving. But he is also jelous, and vengeful, and all sorts of other things. He's God, he can do what ever he wants.
2006-11-02 05:13:44 · 7 answers · asked by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is not a sin to be angry(just because some preist thought of 7 things to be deadly), but we can commit sin as a result of being angry, or not having control of our anger.
2006-11-02 06:27:34 · update #1
If God did not want the plane to crash it never would've had any intrumental errors to begin with.
2006-11-02 06:28:30 · update #2
Read your whole Bible. In the Old Testament, God was a punishing God, who created the flood, turned Lot's wife to a pillar of salt, and allowed the trials of Job. Then, in the New Testament, he is loving, forgiving and charitable. God is all of this things and much, much more. He is forgiving to those who seek forgiveness on his terms. He is punishing and vengeful to those who, after attain knowledge of Him, continue to disobey.
The Bible in its entirety is the only explanation of the ways of God. Not just parts, but the whole.
2006-11-02 05:22:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can he really do whatever he wants?
Is he really all knowing and all mighty? I don't think so.
"Hey, I'm God, and I see this airplane with 200 people that's about to crash into the earth. Gee, should I blink my eye and have the controls back in order? Or not? Maybe I should just stay out of it? Or maybe there is nothing that I can do about it."
Was humankind made in God's image, or the other way around?
Response to Q: That's just my point. He is NOT able to make the plane crash. And . . . why WOULD he want the plane to crash?
2006-11-02 13:19:47 · answer #2 · answered by Ecks 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actually, this idea of a wovey-dovey happy god is pretty new in the evolution of human thinking. G-d as depicted in the Torah is often petty and nasty. But then he's not far removed from the Canaanite pantheon in time, space or behaviour.
And Jesus wasn't always perfect either....
2006-11-02 13:26:11 · answer #3 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marketing.
If you are going to invent a story in order to sell a religion, you have to make people attracted to the deity. If you made him a horrible monster, nobody would join your religion would they?
Letting people in on the fact that he is also jealous, vengeful and bloodthirsty is something you only tell them later, once they are hooked. This serves to make them fear the deity, so that the priests can better control the followers.
2006-11-02 13:18:22 · answer #4 · answered by poecile 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How do you relate jealous, vengeful etc. with Loving? God is love.
2006-11-02 13:16:43 · answer #5 · answered by jmmevolve 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes he is angry too. Anger is a sin. God is a sinner.
2006-11-02 13:16:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No kidding - in the early parts of the bible he was turning people into salt and killing them etc.
2006-11-02 13:16:54 · answer #7 · answered by workingclasshero 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋