If so, why is god so mean?
2007-02-03 18:00:15 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jehovah is the very standard of righteousness and goodness, and Jehovah is motivated purely by love. Everything Jehovah does is good, and Jehovah actively looks for opportunities to demonstrate mercy and loving-kindness.
(Psalm 100:5) Jehovah is good; His loving-kindness is to time indefinite
(Psalm 145:9) Jehovah is good to all, And his mercies are over all his works.
(Jeremiah 33:11) Laud Jehovah of armies, for Jehovah is good; for to time indefinite is his loving-kindness!
(James 1:13) For with evil things God cannot be tried nor does he himself try anyone.
(1 John 4:8) He that does not love has not come to know God, because God is love.
(1 John 4:16,20) God is love... If anyone makes the statement: “I love God,” and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot be loving God, whom he has not seen.
(Exodus 34:6,7) Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness and truth, preserving loving-kindness for thousands, pardoning error and transgression and sin
Jehovah is the benevolent Almighty Father of angels and humans. When an angel or human alienates himself from Jehovah, truly 'the defect is his own' rather than God's.
(Deuteronomy 32:5) They have acted ruinously on their own part; They are not his children, the defect is their own
Here are a few Scriptural thoughts to consider:
(Psalm 14:1) The senseless one has said in his heart: “There is no Jehovah
(Romans 16:17) Keep your eye on those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them.
(2 Corinthians 4:4-6) The god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers
(Philippians 2:14-15) In among a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you are shining as illuminators in the world
(1 Timothy 6:3-5) If any man teaches other doctrine and does not assent to healthful words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, nor to the teaching that accords with godly devotion, he is puffed up with pride, not understanding anything, but being mentally diseased over questionings and debates about words. From these things spring envy, strife, abusive speeches, wicked suspicions, violent disputes about trifles on the part of men corrupted in mind and despoiled of the truth
2007-02-03 19:47:33 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahweh and Jehova are names for the Judeo-christian god.
Elohim is a word that, when translated accurately, is a word that means "pantheon" or "brethern". Up until recently, in the book of genesis (specifically when god is casting Adam and Eve from Eden), god spoke to the elohim (It makes sense that there were other gods, seeing as how A&E found other people and cities when they left Eden). Hebrew and christian scholars are the only groups who claim that the word means differently, with more recent translations of the bible just using the word "us". This is argued to mean that he is talking to angels, not other gods.
2007-02-03 18:17:55 · answer #2 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahweh or Jehovah is God's name. How it became Jehovah becomes complicate, but Elohim simply means Almighty God, according the several Rabbis who just spoke on the History Channel program "Who Write The Bible."
2007-02-04 16:35:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that could no longer authentic. The religions of the international instruct different and complicated doctrines. some trust in a God that torments human beings continually in a burning hell. Others are taught that God is chop up up into 3 coeternal, coequal "persons." nevertheless others are taught that Jesus himself is God. If Jehovah huge-spread all a number of those worship and ideology, that could make him a God of bewilderment. yet he's unlike that. there is in common words one thanks to worship him. At John 4:24, Jesus pronounced: "...the authentic worshipers will worship the daddy with spirit and reality, for certainly, the daddy is searching for suchlike ones to worship him." those who settle for and prepare what the Bible teaches are those that render that variety of perfect worship.
2016-11-25 00:07:43 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything depends on a person's personal outlook on life. God can be friendly to someone while another person believes Him mean. He can be the same ultimate power worshipped by all religions to one person, but different to the next. It is all what one believes in and about.
2007-02-03 18:04:21 · answer #5 · answered by Isabela 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on if you are of 3 different religions!
Is God mean, or does He have a lot of children to raise?
2007-02-03 18:04:14 · answer #6 · answered by rdappa 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are GOD's nickname, what do you mean that He is so mean? He just wanted to see if we are right or not to live in Heaven with Him
2007-02-03 18:08:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes of course
2007-02-03 19:24:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
He is mean because they make it with human traits, like Greek Gods.
2007-02-03 18:03:39 · answer #9 · answered by Theta40 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is only one Supreme God ... and he's not mean. Mankind portrays him in a way that compares him to human emotions. (Jealous, angry, wrathful)
2007-02-03 18:03:27 · answer #10 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋