Can someone please explain this to me about Christ?

Question

In the 10 commandments, it mentions something about not worshiping another God or something because God is a jealous God,......My question is why is it (according to the bible), that he tells us not be jealous but yet, he gets jealous if someones into another God????

Answer 1

All cultures have anthropomorphized their gods into humanoid (if sometimes grotesque) form. Were the Jews the exception? Hardly. We know precisely what the Hebrew god looked like. We are, after all, fashioned in his own likeness. He was a man, no doubt looking remarkably like the bearded sage asking us to worship him. He has body parts: eyes and a face (‘they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes’ – Jeremiah 16.17); nose and a mouth (Psalms 18.8); lips, tongue and breath (Isaiah 30.27,33); loins (Ezekiel 1.27); even ‘back parts’ (Exodus 33.23). He also has several ‘human’ emotions, manly appetites, and a worrying disposition towards pathological violence.

Yahweh feels regret for his own evil (‘And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.’ - Jonah 3.10); and grief (at the wickedness of men) (‘and it grieved him at his heart’ - (Genesis 6.6). He actually gets down and wrestles with Jacob, dislocating his thigh (Genesis 32.24). He forgets (he goes on calling Jacob ‘Jacob’ even after re-naming him ‘Israel’ - Genesis 35.10, 46.2). He practises favouritism (choosing the Israelites ‘above all people’ - Exodus 19.5; but he just does not like Cain or Esau!). He holds grudges (‘I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation’ – Exodus 20.5).

For an omniscient god he is surprisingly unknowing (‘They have set up kings, but not by me; they have made princes, and I knew it not.’ – Hosea 8.4). And for an omnipotent god he has his limitations (‘The Lord was with Judah; and he drove out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron.’ - Judges 1.19).

And after his creation of the world, he even has to rest from his labour (‘And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work’ - Genesis 2.2) – to the endless bemusement of pagan critics, whose own gods didn’t need to rest!

Answer 2

God forbids jealousy for something that we don't have, yet He is jealous for things that He does have:

His glory
His people.

Also, some types of jealousy are OK if you are a reasonable person. Like, when you see a man trying to seduce your wife, of course you should be jealous - and deal with that in a Christian manner - tell him to step off! :) (if you are overly jealous when ever your wife talks with another man, than it's unbiblical jealousy).

But, when you are jealous because of your friends wife, car or anything that you don't have (now, I'm not saying you "have" your wife, but that you have each other :)), then it's unbiblical and actually you are sinning against God and your friend, his wife and your wife if you have one.

So, there are two kinds of jealousy, and God has only righteous jealousy (just like there are two kinds of anger- sinful and holy anger).

Answer 3

Why is everyone trying to find some kind of sin when we are all sinners in the first place, whether we get jealous or not? So treating jealousy ( which may be bad for us because we might not be good about what we do with our jealousy ) is only treating a symptom. We are still sinners whether we do it or not.

That's where Jesus comes in. It's our nature that he promises to change after we get to him up there where he is at.

Yet every day here, someone wasn't to talk about the little things, this sin and that sin. Like it's going to change anything.

Answer 4

You do know what a dictionary is? Have you ever used one?

Usually words have several meanings and applications. Try checking the word jealous.

Here is an online dictionary's definitions:
1.feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages (often fol. by of): He was jealous of his rich brother.
2.feeling resentment because of another's success, advantage, etc. (often fol. by of): He was jealous of his brother's wealth.

5.solicitous or vigilant in maintaining or guarding something: The American people are jealous of their freedom.
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Do you understand the difference between 1&2 and 5?

If you do, then you understand what the answer to your question is.

Answer 5

God's jealous is that when you worship other Gods which will take that person to Satan, so He is jealous because his creation become Satan's possession.

Answer 6

god is jealous of us as he is our creator/father if you were a parent would you not be jealous if your child loved someone else more than you

Answer 7

Uhhhhh - Him GOD!

Answer 8

:)

someone, everyone can not explain to you, but G-D, sorry


peace