what is god's dark side?

Question

in the old testament he's an angry god - what other elements of god expose a dark side

Answer 1

His penchant for child-murder - e.g. the time He deliberately hardened Pharaoh's heart so that he would decree the death of the Hebrew firstborn, in "revenge" for which He then sent His Angel of Death to slaughter the Egyptian firstborn. The whole thing was just one big orgy of senseless infanticide at God's express behest.

But you can multiply examples like this endlessly. Open the Bible at random and you're bound to find an atrocity.

Answer 2

Here is a partial explanation, you can read the entire article on:

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:3vCnDFmG3FAJ:www.luthersem.edu/word%26world/Archives/17-4_Family/17-4_Nysse.pdf+nysse+dark+side+of+god&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8


The opening sentence uses a gruesome image of destruction with God as the perpe-trator. Subsequent sentences spell out in concrete terms what the opening imagemeans. The overwhelming military defeat and resulting chaos is attributed to God.The text provides no wiggle room; God engages in military destruction.Military destruction is only one set of language to denote what I have beencalling the “dark side of God.” The dark side of God includes all the acts andwords of judgment that are not and cannot be labeled merely “disciplinary.”Jeremiah at one point terms the shape of God’s word of judgment as “war,famine, and pestilence” (28:8). War, famine, and pestilence don’t just discipline;they kill. The dark side of God is not the language of a summons to repentance. Itis, as one of Amos’s visions says, the “end” (8:2). It is the second half of the wordsdirected to exilic Judah: “I form light and create darkness, I make weal and createwoe, I the Lord do all these things” (Isa 45:7, emphasis added). The Psalms oftenspeak of the dark side of God with the language of “hiding” or “forgetting”: “Howlong, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face fromme?” (Ps 13:1). God’s wrath and anger provide yet another set of language to ex-press this dark side of God. Thus, “the dark side of God,” as used in this essay, isan umbrella term, not a singular metaphor.II. EVASIONSHow are we to preach and teach this dark side of God? How might wepreach and teach, for example, the opening two chapters of Amos? The answer is notclear, but the evasions of the question are many. At the outset we should recognizethat every attempt to wield the words of Amos against a contemporary audience438Nysse....go to page 3 and 4......
.

Answer 3

God is the dark area--coach me something interior the bible that he did that replaced into extremely good as properly jesus--or maybe that replaced into just to conceal up his crimes against humanity, after all, he replaced into the only that damned us interior the 1st place, so giving us a savior, who in straightforward terms saves particular people isn't often an altruistic attempt

Answer 4

Take the range of human emotions and god feels those as well. Why is that? Because man created god in his own image. This means that everything man is capable of, so is god.

Answer 5

That's not considered God's dark side. He has no dark side. He is a zealous God, and he can get angered. However, he is full or mercy and grace. and who are we, mere humans, sinful little creatures, to ask what he can and cannot do, and what is rightfully for him to do.

Answer 6

Pauly Shore is a good example.

Answer 7

He's a jealous god as well. Just read the bible. It's there.

Answer 8

I heard that he is awfully tough with the penny.

Answer 9

He detests & punishes sin..

Answer 10

Cookies...as every agnostic knows...