Why would an all-powerful Deity feel an emotion so distinctly human and primal as anger?

Question

In the bible, your "god" is angered by all sorts of things. Now why would an all-powerfull entity with the ability to do anything it wants feel this emotion?

Let's think about anger.... Where does anger come from? Mainly from frustration.

Where does frustration come from? Not having control over a situation.

So why is it then that the all-powerfull, all-knowing, omnipitant being portrayed in the bible is constatnly angered by things.

Nothing is out of its control... It's all-powerful!

Hence, this "god" of yours is man-made.

Answer 1

An all powerful, perfect deity would not feel emotion. Emotion comes from things like fear, need, frustration, etc. Those factors would not be present in any all-powerful or all-knowing being. It's one of the major fallacies of religion. We are so self-absorbed that we cannot imagine a being that isn't like us.

Answer 2

Okay, now you're just angering him - which may lead to accelerated global warming which will cause floods... wait a minute... he did promise us no more floods (although I'm thinking about getting myself over to Home Depot and building a boat, just in case). But seriously... if you were God, wouldn't you have fun with the human race? You've already put the universe on auto-pilot so you're not exactly too busy. And since you've inspired a book or two - or dozens - each one competing against the other, wouldn't it be fun to just sit back and watch? Especially since you went through the trouble of creating weapons?

Answer 3

God created man in HIS image thus anger as well as all of our other emotions are God given. The Bible says "Be ye angry and sin not" Ephesians 4:26 There are different kinds of anger, and some are justified. Like if we were to get angry at seeing an injustice done to someone else. say for example the man and woman who watch those three children drown in thier car in Illinois. My anger says that that man and woman should be bound hand and foot together and drowned in the same way. But being angry because I don't get my way at something is not justified, it is sin.

Answer 4

Not "my god" but maybe I have an answer.

Balance. To go along with that almighty powerful Goodness, there is a need for some almighty righteous anger.

The issue I would take up is not that this is a product of [fill in the blank] but that to go along with the almight whatever should be a good healthy dose of almighty self control and Divine responsibility.

As pagans, we know our Gods/Goddesses are not perfect; that they are immortal but have strengths and weaknesses. That is why when we have an issue, we turn to one or another who possesses those strengths, and ask those who have those weaknesses how they control them.

But that particular God seems to be endowed with all attributes, and it seems that in order to maintain one heavy duty aspect, he needs to overcompensate with another that is opposite.

Being philosophical here, but it does make sense.

Answer 5

God's anger is not from frustration. It is indignation. Sin is an offence against the dignity of righteousness.

Imagine you are a parent who gives a special gift to your teenage daughter. It's an old piece of jewelry from your grandmother. She laughs at you and tosses it in the garbage due to some frivolous underestimation of it's value. She should have the respect to treat it well simply because it was a heartfelt gift from you but no, she dumps it into the trash and mocks your gift among her friends. "it's so old fashioned!" she sneers.

Now how ya gonna feel? Frustrated? No.

Indignant.

Answer 6

No God is not angry because of sin He is angry "at" sin because of sin that we are apart from Him, when at the begining Adam and Eve sinned it was at it were pulliing the plug of life from the wall, it caused death and pain of HIS Children, now God is a God of Love but also of Justice, now if we accept the conditions upon which Live is offered that all is fine, but IF we keep hold of the one thing which God hates the thing that causes that person to be apart from death, then the "results" is that death is the natural cause and effect, Jesus Christ the second member of The Godhead paid that price and there can be NO EXCUSE for hanging onto something that God has gave freedom from, but His anger is at the SIN and "NOT" the sinner, satan a fallen angel his charater is laid out in Isa. 14:12-15 compare it with that of Jesus in Isa. 53, and He is your God also, learn more in a free on line bible course www.itiswritten.com God bless, bible questions www.bibleinfo.com email me also [e-mail]

Answer 7

We can't even imagine the Creator much less understand the Creators actual perceptions and thoughts. When the Creator communicates with human creation He speaks in language humans will relate to. If God spoke to us from the plane He is on we would not get it at all.

Answer 8

Totally agree with your logic, except that my conclusion is that the bible is man-made, not God.

The God portrayed in the bible has too many human qualities, merely reflecting the characteristics of those humans who wrote it. They depicted an alleged God that mirrored human characteristics known to them.

"We tend to make assumptions about others according to ourselves." And that includes God.

God, and as you say, is omnipotent and omniscient. He cannot be surprised, and anger is not a feeling that he would feel.

Answer 9

God does not feel anger as a human emotion, He did not inherit that from us. We inherited it from Him, as we were created in His image. When one says God should or should not be one way or the other? They are trying to conform/create Him in their image, not accept that we are all created in His. There is NO conformity in Christ Jesus, lest it is US doing the conforming.

Anger is not merely from not having control over a situation either, it can also come from being upset over what others do because they are choosing wrong when they know better. That is NOT because God has no control, but because we use our God given control/free will to harm ourselves. And as our Creator that saddens him.

You are picking apart the word Anger and applying only one facet of it's meaning to suit your idea that God is man made.

Just because you are narrowminded according to a belief, does not mean you can make all words you choose to use to explain that belief narrow in definition. We are all often narrowminded when it comes to what we believe, but we also need to be open to other ideas as well as the true and complete contexts of how a word can be used, or what it can mean.

I may be angry that my oven is not working right, but that does not mean I have no control over it, or the ability to repair it.

Answer 10

Man didn't give God emotions.
God gave man his emotions because we are made in the image of God.

I get angry at God sometimes, why shouldn't he be able to be angry at me? Who are you to define anger as primal? It is a part of most every close loving relationship that we are involved in.

God is not man-made, man is God-made.

Answer 11

...You got it backwards, friend. God (our God) is righteous, holy, forgiving, just, gracious, all-knowing, almighty; He created and sustains all things, and He is perfect. Anything He does proves him to be righteous, holy, and true. He is the great and only God. He spoke, and the worlds came into being.
...He cannot tolerate sin in His presence, and in His grace sent Jesus Christ to be our sin-bearer, but each of us must believe on Him to be saved. He did not have to do it.
...Fairly often, some in His creation throw temper tantrums, demanding this and that, not realizing that the created beings are morally responsible to the Creator, not vice-versa.
...Weak human beings didn't create God, nor can they - they can barely care for themselves.
...I urge you to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and be saved.
(Acts 16:31)
...Whosoever will, may come.