Christians: Explain how God can be angry if he already knows the outcome of every situation?

Answer 1

If someone doesn't answer that God's personality and the Bible that tells about him were dreamed up and authored by a pack of selfish schizoids and power hungry psychos, they're either telling lies again or they have devious designs of their own to thrust upon the rest of us.

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Answer 2

ok dude...all of the answers above are not any value. i am a strong christian man. God doesnt get angry, he is just displeased. he gave us the mind to make choices he already knows what decisions we are going to make. BUt God is a merciful god and he only gets dissapointed in us. dont ever let anyone tell you that God id angry with you or ever thing that because God has an everlasting love for saints and sinners. he loves us all the same. yeah we sin all o f the time but God has so much mercy on you that he forgives you even though you purposely do evil and go against his word. God id not like man, if i slap you and ask you to forgive me, and you do and slap you again just as quick as you forgave me. and i asked foe forgiveness again, would you forgive me?? most likely not, but God can take a million slaps and a million and one apologies and he still forgives. BUT that doesnt mean you can go do what you want when you want and God will forgive you. Just try you best not to go against God and when you slip up it is easier on you and him to forgive. thats where the word vain comes from. God is not even gonna try to hear your prayers if they are not true and from the innermost part of your heart. He's merciful and everloving. REMEMBER THAT. He's never angry with you.

Answer 3

How does knowing the outcome of the situations change the way he feels about them??

It's like watching a movie you have already seen. It doesn't prevent girls to cry at then of "Titanic" after the 20th viewing.

Answer 4

Explain to me how he can tell us that he is slow to anger and quick to forgive unless he's already experienced it?

It's a difficult thing to think in terms outside of space time. One of the things you have to understand before debating God is the philosophies of God. Debating people is silly. People are dumb. For instance, I'm a complete moron. Arguing with me will do nothing but cause you frustration. However, by debating the philosophy we can point things out to each other that line up or don't line up.

In this particular case, you've made the assumption that because God knows the outcome of every situation he shouldn't get mad, because he already knew it was going to happen. I have countered with scripture that tells us how God reacts to us. Neither is given an actual time frame. The reason for this is that God doesn't exist in time, but like us he still experiences things. The difference is that we experience things in time while he sees everything that has happened already. It could be a true statement to say that God has already been angry, reacted, and calmed down before you ever did what made him angry, assuming that you as one person could enough to make God angry. At any rate, you and I will experience things in space time, that is a second of a minute of an hour of a day of a month of a year. These are our units of measurement. So when God speaks to us, in whatever way that is, it's going to have a time reference for us, while for him it's just an event in his overall plan that was merely given a frame of reference for the creation to understand. He doesn't need it.

As for how he can get angry when he already knew the outcome, anger is a physical representation of an emotional state. If I tell you I am angry with you while I am planting daises in the ground as delicately as possible, would you believe me? If I said I was angry with you and tore some of those daisies apart, would you believe me? In the Old Testament Holy Scriptures God was still manifesting himself to his people in a very physical way quite often. Just as a parent raising a child needs to show displeasure so the child knows something is not acceptable, despite knowing it already God needs to show displeasure to his people so that they can understand something is not acceptable. It would do no good for God to move on and show no emotion or physical representations of emotions simply because "he already knew". This wouldn't benefit his people.

So, in summarization, he can be angry for the same reason you or I could be angry already knowing how something will play out because we know the person we are speaking to. You know I stole it because you have it on tape. You know I am a blatant liar and will not confess to my crime. You confront me anyway, because it's necessary. You ask me, already knowing my answer, because it's necessary. Are you not still angry that I stole from you and then lied to you about it while you had complete evidence of my guilt? In that same way, God can still angered by our actions, despite already knowing what they are. The difference is that we see it as taking 1,000 years for that anger to kindle, when for him there was no time stamp.... we could, in theory, be experiencing anger from God that, based on time, was kindled 6,000 years ago when he created everything.

Answer 5

Judging by how early in the yarn it began, I'd say the author of the book with the God character had an unpublished manuscript explaining it all.

Answer 6

Just because you know what the outcome is going to be doesn't mean that you are OK with it.

Answer 7

God made us so that we can make choices. He doesn't know what choice we make, really, so he doesn't know the ENTIRE outcome. He becomes angry because of the stupid choices we make. He didn't make them. We did.

Answer 8

God gives every one different paths to choose from. One path leads to heaven and the others leads to hell.

Answer 9

Who said god can be angry. Anger is a human trait and emotion.

Answer 10

Hes the higher power he can be angry when he wants so what he didnt teach mankind to act the way we do!