What is the relationship between righteousness and anger?

Question

I mean this both as it applies to Gods righteous indignation and our own sense of righteousness that initiates anger or displeasure when it is violated. Is anger a choice then or a spontaneous reaction to be used as a tool of manipulation to get others in line with our own wills?
Any intelligent thoughts?

All good answers. I was thinking more along the lines of the etymological meaning of righteousness as a measurement or statement about the correctness to a standard. Righteousness as being in line with how something should be when in its proper posture. So in that regard is anger a tool meant to bring the object of intention into the desired state of the volitional wishes of the intender and therefore not neccessarily a bad thing?

Anger as a choice for ones behavior to instill in others. a means to an ends. Anger can be a choice rather than a spontaneous reaction of the emotion. I know babies use anger to bend ther parents to their will when they have needs that they insist must be met ...or else. Does anyopne else this or not?

Sorry about the misspelling. I meant to say does anyone else see this or not?

Answer 1

Sorry this is a paste job, but it answers your question.

ANGER The word normally used in the Bible to refer to rage, fury, and indignation. In most instances, anger is considered to be wrong. Psalm 37:8 (nlt), for example, commands: “Stop your anger! Turn from your rage!” Jesus paralleled anger with murder when he said, “If you are angry with someone, you are subject to judgment!” (Mt 5:22, nlt)—just as if the person had actually committed the murder he felt in his angry heart. Ephesians 4:31 and Colossians 3:8 both list anger, along with bitterness, wrath, malice, and slander, as attitudes that Christians must rid themselves of once and for all. In his list of attributes for a bishop or pastor of a church, the apostle Paul said that a Christian leader should not be prone to anger, that is, easily provoked (Ti 1:7).
The Bible recognizes that humans get angry; it does not condemn the anger in and of itself but what often happens as the result. Humans have a habit of letting their anger get the best of them, causing them to sin. That is why the apostle Paul said, “Don’t sin by letting anger gain control over you” (Eph 4:26, nlt). The longer a person allows anger to continue, the greater the danger that it will develop sinful qualities, giving Satan a foothold (see Eph 4:27).
Anger of a good sort is also spoken of in the Bible. “Righteous indignation” refers to the extreme displeasure of a holy heart unable to tolerate sin of any kind. The anger of God contains this element: man should be good, yet he sins—and God is angry “because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them” (Dt 29:25–26, rsv). It was in that sense also that Moses’ anger burned on Mt Sinai and caused him to smash the tablets of the covenant on the ground when he saw the golden calf and Israel’s idolatry (Ex 32:19).
In the NT, Mark says that Jesus looked with anger at the Pharisees, who were hoping to catch him breaking their law (Mk 3:5). Jesus’ anger was also shown in his cleansing of the temple (Jn 2:13–22); it should have been a place of prayer but was being used as a place of business. So Jesus “entered the Temple and began to drive out the merchants and their customers. He knocked over the tables of the money changers and the stalls of those selling doves” (Mt 21:12, nlt). His holy indignation was neither a weakness nor a sin. Such anger is an appropriate response to iniquity and injustice, especially when they are apparently unpunished.

Answer 2

Gods righteous anger is similar to that of a parent who punishes a child for doing things like crossing a street carelessly, or playing with fire. It's always measured, and calculated to result in the best possible outcome.

Mans "righteous" anger is usually a response to a perceived slight, or an emotional reaction to the action of a person, or to a particular event.

A good example of this would be one driver going after another driver, to punish him for causing a fender-bender car accident.

Since God is good, he's in a position of ultimate power, he can see the future, and he gains nothing by over reacting, he acts righteously (fairly) in all matters.

SInce man is not, over reaction tends to be the norm, and righteousness usually, but not always eludes him.

Answer 3

Ever hear of "righteous indignation"? Scripture says if we Love God, we hate evil.
And if one can read beween the lines. It's not so much materail weaknesses that
get us in trouble. It's the emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects that get us in
trouble. Arrogance, false pride, negative speech, stinky attitudes!
We have to have some maturity, and let an off-hand remark slide. But never
speaking up, and standing up for anything, especially against a "Simon the sorceror", like in Scripture, who constantly spoke against good things, and tried to twist peoples
minds, is cowardice!

Answer 4

Righteous anger is the use of freewill of standing in your power when you are being or have been treated with disrespect,abused,manipulated or deceived.
The unrighteous anger is when we are in a place of self importance,pity or denial and spew temper tantrums of vile energy to gain power over due to wounding from our childhood. All ways be the best that you can be, be impeccable with your words, action and thoughts as this is what creates your reality in this plane of illusion.

Answer 5

Righteousness is only obtained through the love of God. Anger is an emotion there is no relationship.

Answer 6

You can have righteous anger which would be the anger of someone who is totally incensed by a great injustice of some sort. However, not all anger is righteous.

Answer 7

righteousness of being angry for scolding someone who did something wrong. just like our moms and dads do when we did something very wrong.

Answer 8

Even God gets angry...

http://www.amazingfacts.org/resources/Audio/BALQALib/022402_jealousy_of_God.asx

http://www.amazingfacts.org/resources/Audio/BALQALib/1025Cain.asx

For us its not a bad thing...just needs to be controlled

Answer 9

You can be powerful without being angry.