and love is not jealous, then how is the lord your god a jealous god?
2006-12-28 16:20:17 · 15 answers · asked by Kalia 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because the jealous god was created by jealous men.
2006-12-28 16:22:19 · answer #1 · answered by alimagmel 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
God is a jealous God because everything that is belongs to him. If he were not jealous then Satan could have whatever he wanted and God wouldn't mind, being soft and easy going. If he were not jealous then he wouldn't mind if a murderer killed someone, because, being your understanding of love, he would say that even if the murderer didn't change he would still deserve the same love that the person he murdered deserved. Your mistake is first, in judging God, and second, in trying to define God by your understanding of love and not define love according to who God is.
The one who is a jealous God gave us his son so that we might have eternal life.
2006-12-28 16:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe there is an error in your thought process....Have you ever considered, that in love, even perfect love, there can be jealousy? Think of the sweetest husband and wife couple you know of, and imagine, just IF it were possible, for them to be jealous, should that other spouse do something worth being jealous over. This is possible. While God's love is deeper, and harder to understand, it is pure, and absolute love. If we go and love other things more, when he should be at the top of our list, he gets jealous. Remember, in our own lives, its what you DO with that jealousy, that can cause trouble, no? That said, we don't really compare anyway to God's love. He doesn't sin. It is him, that loves us with a pure and everlasting love, at least to those that love him. The jealousy part you speak of, refers to those that love him also, not unbelievers, or those that love satan, for instance.
2006-12-28 16:24:33 · answer #3 · answered by oceansnsunsets 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Flawed logic. God is love. He is the author, creator, and demonstrator of love. Our love is not jealous - and God's love is not jealous. God commands that we love no other God before Him. (As we are to love our spouse exclusively). God gives us so many chances it is not funny. All we do is question and finagle and twist and wordsmith and stray....He still loves us beyond all human capacity and definition. Try to tie a rope on that one.
2006-12-28 16:24:38 · answer #4 · answered by twicewise 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is important here to understand how the word jealous is used. How it used in Exodus 20:5 to describe God is different from how it is used to describe the sin of jealousy (Galatians 5:20). When we use the word jealous, we use it in the sense of being envious of someone who has something we don't have. A person might be jealous or envious of another person because he or she has a nice car or home (possessions). Or a person might be jealous or envious of another person because of some ability or skill that other person has (such as athletic ability). Another example would be that one person might be jealous or envious of another because of his or her beauty.
When we look at this verse, we find that it is not that God is jealous or envious because someone has something He wants that He does not possess. Exodus 20:4-5 says, "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God..." Notice that in this verse God is talking about being jealous if someone gives something that belongs to Him to another.
In these verses, God is speaking of people making idols and bowing down and worshiping those idols instead of giving God the worship that belongs to Him alone. 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. 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.
Perhaps a practical example will help us to understand the difference. If a husband sees another man flirting with his wife, he is right to be jealous, for only he has the right to flirt with his wife. This type of jealousy is not sinful. Rather, it is entirely appropriate. Being jealous for something that belongs to you is good and appropriate. Jealousy is a sin when it is a desire for something that does not belong to you. Worship, praise, honor, and adoration belong to God alone, for only He is truly worthy of it. Therefore, God is rightly jealous when worship, praise, honor, or adoration is given to idols. This is precisely the jealousy the Apostle Paul described in 2 Corinthians 11:2, "I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy..."
2006-12-28 16:28:36 · answer #5 · answered by aiguyaiguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD is jealous in the sense that he doesnt want you to adore others Fake gods that is the sense of it
2006-12-28 16:23:27 · answer #6 · answered by Praiser in the storm 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love is very jealous
2006-12-28 16:21:49 · answer #7 · answered by sean 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is God....the only god that we should worship...that is why he is jealous. We don't have the right to be jealous!
2006-12-28 16:23:26 · answer #8 · answered by RoRo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
and they say that god can be jealous all he wants because he made us all.
sheesh
2006-12-28 16:29:14 · answer #9 · answered by lnfrared Loaf 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to break down the barriers of normal human thought if you wish understand the Lord, even when you do this you still will never understand. Don't think human. Jealously? what is that? how is that of relevence?
2006-12-28 16:32:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋