2007-10-07 19:42:12 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
justine -- begin at Genesis and continue.
2007-10-07 20:00:09 · update #1
hamoh? -- I hardly know you. It is not my place to demand you worship me.
Hey, next weekend I'm having a Barby and a bit of fun at Jerico. Got a good (sacrificial) lamb steak for you ; )
2007-10-07 20:03:28 · update #2
Einstein -- you're not girlie. Perhaps you should read and understand your religion. Ask your pastor why he doesn't deal with the Old Testament. Ask him if the New Testament says the Old is lies or truths.
2007-10-07 20:07:53 · update #3
Richardson --
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
2007-10-07 20:12:03 · update #4
Richardson --
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil
The mistakes we make!
I told my son, "Don't run into the traffic or I'll red your botton."
I told my son, Don't run into the traffic you might get hurt. I love you."
2007-10-07 20:14:39 · update #5
Heather -- We were given free will and when we act with our free will we are hated by God because He gave us free will because He expected us to give it back to Him. A bit like Saddam and his ilk don't you say?
2007-10-07 20:18:29 · update #6
Patricia -- "a God of love..." How many Gods are there?
2007-10-07 20:20:21 · update #7
linda -- Please consider me an evangelist of Atheism. I have stepped over the line in the sand into your court. This is what Christian missionaries do and I have decided to do the same. People have complained about Atheists being in R&S but I think Atheists belong here as much as anybody. I posed a Question the other day suggesting a new catagory where religious and non-religious. The Answers I got from Christians that we already have that here in R & S and they didn't mind discussions with us. So..............
2007-10-07 20:51:35 · update #8
God is a mind ......... -- hummm.
2007-10-07 20:54:27 · update #9
Good question!
2007-10-07 20:07:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to assume your talking about the Old testament sories. When God brought the people out of Egypt in the Old Testament, these people were completely helpless. They had been slaves and as a result of this, didn't know how to live, cook or do any of the basic stuff. This is why God gave them 613 rules and the ten commandments. This was a guideline to keep them safe and close to God. The Israelites were very stubborn though, just like we are sometimes. They fell again and again and it made God mad because they ignored Him again and again. God had to wipe out the majority of this generation of sinful people to try and make a better start just as he did earlier with the flood. That is why God gets angry in the Old Testament.
2007-10-08 02:48:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why is God such an angry, vengeful, killing God? Sin. God told Adam if he ate of that tree he would die. The wages of sin is death. No man can stand in front of God and see God because the man would die because of sin. God is a Holy God. The Bible says He is a Spirit and a consuming fire. That consuming fire is the reason sin doesn't stand in front of Him because He burns it up. This is a righteous God and the only righteousness in me as a Christian is Jesus Christ. Without Christ I am dead in sin. Just another "Dead Man Walking" without Christ, but with Christ I have life everlasting.
The first time God got angry He destroyed the whole world with water except for Noah and his family. God said those people were wicked continually. God doesn't like sin, God doesn't like wickedness and violence. God said that He will destroy the world again by fire and if you have not accepted His Son Jesus Christ you will be as chaff in the fire. God doesn't tolerate everything. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and without Jesus Christ man has much to fear from an angry, vengeful and killing God. Mankind will be judged.
2007-10-08 09:50:47 · answer #3 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Indeed why(?). It's the question(?) of all generations:
If God is love, then why the disasters, even to babes?
If God is love, then why the anger, vengeance, killing?
Perhaps the answer is found in "comparing" two Gods:
- God on high, in plural divided heavens: awful lawful
- God in heaven, higher than the heavens: grace us
Many seem to mix what they're flat out told to compare:
"COMPARING spiritual things(laws) with spiritual(grace).
Mixing "contrary" things only makes an oxy-moron:
Eg: One proselyte: twofold: more the CHILD of hell.
Pst: contrary things cannot co-exist in peace.
God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace.
Christ is our peace who hath abolished the law(enmity).
Christ is the end of the law: Rom 10:4, not mend of law.
Repeating Law is Law Law.
Pst: His Grace is not Law Law.
Grace can't lie(law) nor die(law): incorruptible & immortal
Law Law does both: Lie & Die: corruptible & mortal
Which ending gets the last "Amen" in every Pauline epistle?
The LAW LAW of their Lord Christ Jesus against you all.
The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.
2007-10-08 09:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you believe that exposing your children to violence is a problem, by all means keep them away from the Bible. --Rev. Charles Henderson
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle in all the literature of the world. --Henry L. Mencken
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had our land. -- Desmond Tutu
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. --Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.-- Bob Jones III, president of Bob Jones University
The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them. --Hans Conzelmann
2007-10-08 02:44:58 · answer #5 · answered by Mithrianity 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
God isn't! Man is. Man wrote verses in the bible stating that it was God's direction to kill off other tribes. Man made a god in his image!
In Hebrew ,in the bible, it is stated that we were made in the image of: "Elohim"
A) EL=male God
B) ELO or ELA=Goddess
C) IM=plural
It later goes on to state that. "They were made in "OUR" image."
The female aspect= nurturing ,like a mother (The Goddess)
The male aspect = intellect like a father ( God)
All of us being created equal in the image of God means we have the ability to utilize our minds while being loving.
Man, having to justify his own behaviors, claims in the bible that God is jealous and vengeful. The God I believe in doesn't have these human defects. But in allowing us the power of choice, some humans wanting to control the masses, knew that FEAR/GUILT was the path to do so.
The bible doesn't state the word "sin" either. In Hebrew the word is actually "ERROR"! Now ask yourself this question:
If your son screws up, are you willing to take him to the shed in the backyard and set him on fire? Absolutely not!
Neither would a loving God, being that he is the ULTIMATE PARENT!!!
By design, christianity was meant to develope 10% giving, blind sheep, in fear of the devil, and hell!
An interesting read is any book by Sylvia Browne.(Start with her book 'Insights" You want answers that make sense, prove that God is loving,hell, devil ,and evil spirits are a man-made myth, read her and Edgar Cayce. This is a man who died in the 40's who was religious, and found truth, helped thousands, was actually afraid at one time that it was the devil who had happened upon him. He died being a renouned spiritualist, and highly respected individual. No fundies would read this material, to much fear exists. Yet many christians believe that Nostradomus was a prophet! It amazes me how indoctrinated we choose to be, to avoid investigating, as Jesus the prophet states to do, in his Sermon -on -the -Mount. Religion is man-made.Spirituality is inate,placed by God.
2007-10-08 03:19:42 · answer #6 · answered by Candy S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming you mean the Christian God of the old Testament, I prefer to think of him as the "Tyrant with a Sandbox" as it seemed whoever invented him liked to think of their God as a 3 year old child prone to fits of temper.
2007-10-08 02:54:16 · answer #7 · answered by Twilight 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is not angry, he is a God of love and is giving everyone the opportunity of coming to know him. However, the day is drawing very close, when those who chose not to listen to him will be judged.
2007-10-08 02:46:23 · answer #8 · answered by Everlasting Life 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God is a just God, God is a jealous God, he is only angry at those that do evil spitefully. He's vengeful upon those that do evil to his children, and he kill's all that he finds worthless, filthy, and unrepenting.
2007-10-08 02:53:49 · answer #9 · answered by samuraijsp 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did you see God face to face? Or your image of god?
2007-10-08 02:51:47 · answer #10 · answered by arnie 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋