Why is God a jealous God? Who is he jealous of?

Answer 1

Jealousy is a feeling of being threatened, particularly that someone may be better than you, or may take your place.

I can't help but think that god is jealous of me. I'd be a better god, and he knows it.

Answer 2

These are some questions that might enlighten you. Have you made a complete and total Sacrifice for an Utter Stranger? Did you stand by and let him suffer the most ultimate and excruciating pain? And did you look away when that ultimate sacrifice looked at the person they trusted the most and ask Why? when you honestly as a God fearing person answer these questions only then will you know NEVER to question God again.

Answer 3

Being jealous for something that belongs to you is good and appropriate. 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. 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..."

Answer 4

The term "jealous" is not the same as we use it today. Basically it means that God will not accept the we could view anyone or anything to have more importance than Him.

Answer 5

Ok, firstly "jealousy" is obviosly different from "coverting". The following passage from the Bible is self explainitary.
Exodus 20;3 You shall have no other gods before me.

4 You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
As for coveting
Exodus 20;17 You shall not covet your neighbour's house. You shall not covet your neighbour's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.

Answer 6

Because we, his children, His created, ignore Him, we don't understand how much he loves us and looks out for us...We walk around in His world thinking that we are all that...We pay more attention to Hollywood, cleaning house, clothing ourselves, calling our friends, wasting days, and work on other relationships and ignoring the one that is more important than any other. We think we are in control of our lives, our children, our jobs, paying the bills, saving for the future and when anything and everything that we have gained or lost was given or taken away by God Almighty himself. That there lye's the problem

Answer 7

Both good & bad jealousy exist in the world.
Good jealousy enables someone to protect something they rightfully own. God protects his good name & his reputation.
He is also jealous concerning the right to be worshiped, which belongs only to Him. - Exodus 20:3 "You must not have any other gods against my face."

Answer 8

Competition. God is jealous of anything that separates him from the people that he loves (namely sin).

Much the same as if someone decided to run off with your girlfriend/boyfriend. I think you'd be jealous, wouldn't you, what with having the person you care the most about taken away from you by another?

Answer 9

As a nondenominational theist, I think that in reality God is way too intelligent to allow himself to be jealous of artificial gods.

The Old Testament is wrong about the "Jealous God" syndrome.

Answer 10

Deu 5:9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me,


God desires our worship and commands that we worship no other. Those who desire worship for themselves are enemies of God, and those who worship others will be rewarded according to there work.

Answer 11

Of our divided loyalties, of us worshiping things that aren't God at all, things like trees and sports cars and football teams and etc, etc.
He wants credit where credit is due. Don't worship the creation, worship the Creator.