If that is the deity that you worship than no wonder you are so full of hate too.
2007-10-04 05:26:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am so glad I do not believe in the biblical monster.
2007-10-04 05:38:39 · update #1
"Would a loving God want His "word" to be used to spread hate and bigotry.?" - NO! And the people that do this are not true to the faith.
2007-10-04 15:23:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is the saying, Love what God loves and hate what God hates.
As for your question, if people use His Word to spread hate and all, then they haven't really understood God like they thought they did. They didn't really trust in God or believe what He told them to do. Of course, I'm not talking about sharing/spreading the truth which is often offensive to many. The Scriptures are John 8:32 and Galatians 4:16:
"Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."
"Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth?"
Besides sharing the truth that is often what people don't "want" to hear, if they kill or hate, are prejudiced or don't show love to even their enemies, they haven't lived up to what they have already attained or understood God and His Word. But God is love. He hates sin, sin is an abomination and separates people from Him. But He wants everyone to be with Him in perfect paradise (Heaven) for all eternity. God is love but He is other things too. God is love, all-powerful, all-knowing, everywhere at the same time, has perfect justice, is jealous, is the Creator/Maker of all, the Saviour of all mankind (as long as they do their part to receive the free gift of salvation). It should only be the truth that offends (because of people not wanting to hear the truth but rather believe in deception/lie or the like) and not the person who claims they are from God willingly hating without understanding and love for the person they were sent to try to plant a seed in.
As Jesus said, "Go and sin no more."
2007-10-04 05:46:40 · answer #2 · answered by littlefirefly444 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No a loving God would not... since people are opportunistic and their is no good in the hearts of men, people will use his word, or your word, or my word, or whatever they can use to gain the upper hand to control, maniipulate, and extort others.
But that's not what God does nor what He would will. Be it Vishnu, Allah, God or otherwise....
You find the same disservice to man while in the service of "God" in many religions...
The common denominator is not the diety, but the corruption of the hearts of those in power.
2007-10-04 05:31:58 · answer #3 · answered by B.EAZY 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God,s word is not hate or bigotry,Some do not like it because
they can,t keep on sinning and serve God so they choose to
deny God as a way to live as they please,won,t work.
2007-10-04 05:31:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is love, but some people love to steal and kill. And should a parent allow a child who has free will kill a bus a children walk free? Or should that parent stand by that child as he is sentence to the death penalty by leathal injection?
This example is the same thing God is doing to His children, one has the free will to Honor his parent (Father-God) or his own selfish desires...
Remember death is sin, and faith is love...And God is the judge of your heart and intentions...
2007-10-04 05:40:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ego does not want God. So it projects its own intentions on him. That does not mean that they have in bases in reality. In reality none of this ever happened.
Old Guy
2007-10-04 05:32:08 · answer #6 · answered by Old guy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, being omnipotent and all, if he had a problem with it he could certainly do something about it. One can only assume that his lack of action to change that widespread behavior amounts to a tacit endorsement of it.
2007-10-04 05:34:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We as Christians are to spread the good news of the gospel and to follow Jesus' example which is to love our neighbors as our selves.
2007-10-04 05:30:49 · answer #8 · answered by B"Quotes 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you are indeed God, and You have created everthing that was, that is, and that will be, you are entitled to make the rules. As his word says, who is the pot to tell the potter how to make him?
2007-10-04 05:35:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is love, He is just and fair, NOT a monster.
2007-10-04 05:43:42 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋