When have you seen righteous anger?

Question

Describe in your own words the difference between God's anger and human anger.

Answer 1

First of all, God can be angry with people because He knows their hearts while mere mortals can only be angry about people's actions and are prohibited from judging a person who is created in God's image.

Secondly, people can have righteous anger over God's name being dishonored and blasphemed and false religious systems that lead men's souls to Hell but they are not supposed to get angry about personal insults.

Matthew 5:43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor, and you shall hate your enemy.' 44 But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you, 45 so that you may prove to be sons of your Father in heaven; because He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and He sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

1 Peter 2:21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving behind an example for you, that you should follow in His footsteps, 22 "Who committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth"; 23 who, being verbally abused, did not return verbal insults, when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; 24 who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, in order that having died to sins, we might live unto righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but you have turned back now to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Answer 2

An example: I watched a video clip in 1998 of a Yugoslavian woman screaming that U.S. planes had bombed her tv station by accident. This would be human anger. Two years earlier,I had seen another video clip,of a U.N. human relief worker from Fiji who had just survived the 1996 Israeli attack on a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon at a town called Quana. More than 120 people had just been blown up and there were body parts everywhere. Mostly the victims were women and children and some elderly. This guy was from Fiji,of all places to be from and find yourself in such an utter hell. He had worked at that refugee camp for months; he knew most of the victims as real people. He was describing a woman picking up the recovered body of her infant daughter when the skull fell apart and the brain fell out. Just then the interviewer interrupted him to ask if he was aware the Israelis were claiming the attack was "a mistake." (They have precision bombing; the locale of the camp is fairly remote,and well known). It was the wrong question at the wrong moment. I have never seen such wrath. If ever there are men of peace,they are from Fiji. This was not a personal anger; he was fine. He looked like he was about 24. I've never seen such a pure display of white-hot and utterly selfless rage. A mistake? At that moment,that young man from an obscure village in the south pacific was for all practical intents and purposes as much the mouthpiece of God as any man at a pulpit can ever claim to be. This was God's anger manifesting itself through a person shocked out of self-awareness. It was not a human anger. You could see that in his eyes.
Clinton later called the bombing a "tragedy" - as though it had been some kind of natural disaster. People were shocked by that,too. Selfless anger and selfish anger - that's the difference.

Answer 3

When another person is wronged, and you feel angry on their behalf, without consideration for your own pride, that is righteous anger. Righteous anger seldom acts hastily. Human anger usually involves our own emotions, and has at least some germ of fear or selfishness behind it. I am not sure I have ever seen a human display truly righteous anger, though many think they do. For examples, I would look to the Bible.

Answer 4

Well, in the Bible, there was one time when Jesus got very angry because people were selling things in the temple and they turned God's house into a market. That is righteous anger.

Answer 5

righteous anger IS God's anger.....like when He destroyed Sodm and Gomorrah.

Answer 6

The differences? Okay, I'm going to make a list of the differences.

1. Mr. Nonexistent-Sky-Man(god) doesn't exist.
2. If you don't exist, you can't be angry.
3. I exist, therefore I can be angry.

Answer 7

When God turned lots wife into a pilar of salt for looking back. He told her not to, and she did it anyway. You do NOT disobey God, especially when he warns you what will happen if you don't!!!

Answer 8

anger and Buddhist makes a better opposition

Answer 9

Zealot pant-loads often, and deservedly so, receive it.

Answer 10

be angry and sin not.

when something makes you so angry, and yet you refrain from acting on it.