If jealousy is the same as coveting, and God is a "jealous God" (Exodus 20:5), does that mean God covets?

Question

Is that a sin?

Answer 1

Yep, sure does. That god has the maturity of a 2 year old.

Answer 2

Covetousness is greed.

As far as jealousy is concerned, He's the only One who deserves to feel that way. He requires exclusive devotion as He is the Almighty Creator. Psalm 36: 9 points out that He is the source of life. Other "gods" are capable of nothing at all! Even God's name, Jehovah, means "He causes to become."

Answer 3

2co 11:2 For I am JEALOUS over you with GODly JEALOUSy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 1co 12:31 But COVET earnestly THE BEST gifts: and yet show I unto you a more excellent way. Though shall not covet things, but covet the best gifts, spiritual things.

Answer 4

Jealousy is not coveting.

cov·et /ˈkʌvɪt/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kuhv-it] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–verb (used with object) 1. to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.
2. to wish for, esp. eagerly: He won the prize they all coveted.
–verb (used without object) 3. to have an inordinate or wrongful desire.
I could be made jealous by someone who covets my wife.
but I would not be coveting him.

Answer 5

No, no, dear. If god does something, then it must be good. His jealousy is good. When he orders a massacre of a whole tribe, it's a good massacre. If he drowns the whole human species, including innocent children, that genocide is good. If he makes a bet with Satan that a guy like Job will still be faithful even after his kids are killed, then that wagering is a good thing.

Answer 6

I know that it can seem confusing that God could be completely loving and jealous at the same time. In the context of Exodus 20:4-6, God is not using jealous as you or I would. We use jealous to describe the feeling we get when someone else has something that we want. This verse is a description of the forth commandment which says, “Thou shalt not make up for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shalt not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God...” He is saying that He will not tolerate one of His creation worshipping or bowing down to a God other than Him.

I think the word fits perfectly because if you read on, it is clear that there is no gray with the Lord. “…punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.” He will bless those who love Him and punish those who don’t, but He is jealous for, or longs for, the affections of all people. And take notice, He is far more lavish with His rewards than He is longlasting with His punishments. In particular, the references to God as a jealous God draw upon the human emotion and use it as a metaphor to express something about God. To leave it on the literal level assumes the human emotion, which is almost always negative, is a description about how God "really is." However, to take this as an anthropomorphic description about God allows it to move beyond the negative human emotion. The Israelites existed in a world and among people who believed in the worship of many gods.

Their greatest religious threat came from Canaanite fertility religions that personified the forces of nature into deities (see Ba’al Worship in the Old Testament). The Canaanites could add Yahweh, the warrior God of the Israelites, to their worship as another of the nature Gods. But the God of the Israelites was not just another god, He was THE God. The Israelites recognized Him as the only Sovereign Creator God. The metaphor used to make this claim was the metaphor of God as a jealous God. He would not simply be added to the other nature deities, because he had created the aspects of nature that the Canaanites worshipped!

Hosea takes this metaphor and makes it positive, as he compares God’s relationship with Israel in the imagery of a marriage. The basis is love, and "jealousy" is a way to describe the love that a husband has for a wife who is unfaithful and works as a prostitute. This "jealousy" is one that hurts because of the unfaithfulness of the wife (Israel) in a relationship in which she had pledged herself to her husband who had loved and cared for her (God). So when biblical writers apply this term to God, they are affirming that He, as Creator and Deliverer, is the only God worthy of our worship.

Answer 7

In ancient times when a person did not get what they wanted from one god they simply prayed or made a sacrifice to another god.

YAHWEH demands loyalty because without loyalty everything else falls apart. without loyalty it is no longer a spiritual journey it's running and crying to every other deity untill one answers just to shut you up.

Answer 8

Jealoucy is only a sin if you get jealous at something that isnt yours. we are all god's we all belong to God he has a right to get jealous. however we humans have a right to get jealous lets say our wives flirt with other men we have a right because our wives are ours as we are theirs if a guy has a gf he has no right to get jealous if she flirts with another man because the woman has no bind to him. theirs a differnce between rightous jealoucy and unrightoues jealouscy

Answer 9

cov·et –verb (used with object) 1. to desire wrongfully, inordinately, or without due regard for the rights of others: to covet another's property.

jeal·ous –Bible. intolerant of unfaithfulness or rivalry

Answer 10

yeah, i heard he also got quite wrathful on occasion and slothed about on the 7th day too.