Is God revengeful?

Answer 1

God is neither vengeful nor revengeful. We tend to think as we are conditioned by devices like 'logic', 'value system', 'ethics', 'morality' which are all human devices with two scales such as good and bad, true and false, just and unjust etc. etc. In the same scale we the finite assess the infinite i.e. the God. What a contradiction that the content wants to contain the contender.

Answer 2

God is revengeful as per the Old Testament, but God is love according to the New testament. God is mercy according to Islam, though elsewhere it also says that God has commanded to kill the Kafirs the non-believers who do not have faith in Muhammad as a Prophet and the last Prophet. Torah also talks of God as being revengeful.

So the Semitic truth about God is that He is revengeful.

What Buddhism and Hinduism say in this respect is not known to me.

Answer 3

Absolutely!
Everyone who said no has NOT read their Old Testament:

God says, "To me belongeth vengeance, and recompense ... for the day of their destruction is at hand." Deut 32:35

Jer 46:10 The day of the Lord will be "a day of vengeance." On that day God's sword will become drunk with blood.

God will destroy entire cities, and "execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen such as they have not heard." Micah 5:14-15

Answer 4

no, but He is just, which may look like revenge if you look at it the wrong way. If you choose to sin and break away from him, He will let you- it's called free will. And if you choose to sin, you will end up getting what you deserve, if you don't come back to God. But as to earthly punishment, if that's what you are talking about, no- we do have to face hardships, because of our fallen nature, but if we do something wrong he doesn't just zap us with a bolt of lightning, although that's what the Puritans thought. Silly puritans.

Answer 5

I wouldn't say "revengeful" is the word, but just think of it as no sin goes unpunished. If you do a sin, ask for forgiveness, and of course He'll forgive you, but you need discipline in life to get through; to learn the right and wrong in Christianity. You need His discipline, and he will punish you for sins you do, but i wouldn't say that he's 'revengeful'. He's not necessarily trying to get back at you, He's just trying to help you, trying to whip you into shape =]

Answer 6

Yes and no. He is described as slow to anger, and quick to forgive. He is described as having forgiven all sin for those who are in Christ.
But those who refuse the forgiveness of their sins, will have to face God's justice. You can call that revenge if you like.

Answer 7

2 Samuel 2:8 is one occasion says but Jehovah gives to my lord the king revenge this day upon Saul and his offspring
just one example

Answer 8

I don't believe so. To me God is love, and love is not full of revenge.

Answer 9

it is said from authority that god was 'vengeful', not revengeful, and one reason jesus was deemed to be sent to earth was to create a bridge, a means of forgiveness from a god whose law was law, and who dictated very harsh remedies for those who defiled his. this seems logical for someone who cannot lie but probably can't understand the idiosities of man. he needed his son to give people safe passage, a passport as it were, for man to enter the divine.

Answer 10

I dont think so. I don't really think God takes direct action in this world, if he ever did. We can take revenge and commit attrocities (hiroshima and nagasaki, the holocost) all on our own. he just leaves it up to us.