The bible tells us that God is All "Knowing", All "Loving" and All "Forgiving", but yet people still want to believe that God is an angry and hateful Being that does not forgive people, sends people to Hell, curses people with illnesses and deformaties (sp?).
This contradicts one another. You can't have an All "Forgiving" God that sends people to Hell. Forgiveness is forgiveness. Just like you can't have an All "Loving" God that hates gay people. Love is love.
If it is well known that the Bible was edited, and it was well known that people blamed earthquakes and other natural disasters on God before they knew any better, then why do so many people still believe that God is so angry and hateful?
Any thoughts?
2007-12-13 05:35:27 · 20 answers · asked by lost in a world of confusion 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Oh, you mean the kind and loving God that sends all non-believers to a place of eternal torment? Yeah, why do people believe such nonsense.
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2007-12-13 05:40:17 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God is not all angry and all hateful. Neither is He all loving and all forgiving. You reject His Son Jesus Christ and you will feel his wrath in the Day of Judgment. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
If you aren't walking in the Spirit then you are fulfilling the lust of the flesh.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings and such like; of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
God loves people. God hates the sin of homosexuality which is lasciviousness and uncleanness.
I have the "hope of righteousness" because I strive hard to walk in the Spirit. The Holy Spirit purifies and refines, but none are perfect - no not one.
God is Love, but He is also the Divine Judge of all mankind. God will have His angels cast the wicked into the Lake of Fire . . . eternal hell. Just as a fornicator can refrain from having sex, so also can a homosexual refrain from having sex.
God expects it and commands it.
You are commanded to know the Holy Bible the Word of God.
2007-12-13 06:04:44 · answer #2 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Old Testament is full of examples of Angry Hateful God.
The New Testament's prophet puts a nice loving spin on things (mostly,) but the threat of getting sent to Hell for eternity as a result of not believing that Jesus paid for the sin of humanity sends God right back to being Angry and Hateful.
2007-12-13 05:42:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Where does this monsterous misconception originate that God somehow is incapable of hating someone? That "God is LOVE so let's all get together and have a big group hug" is straight from the "Love Doctrine" of nutjob theologians from the 60's and 70's, and is entirely unBiblical. If you think otherwise, you're actually helping to proliferate this fraudulent doctrine. God most certainly IS capable of hating someone: "Jacob have I loved; Esau have I HATED" (the root word for hatred simply means "love even less") - God.
2007-12-13 05:47:19 · answer #4 · answered by Wired 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is not the one who decides who goes to hell... that is the decesion of each individual... God does not cause all the illness and infermaties of mankind... they are the result of mankind's actions from the first rejection of God. The forces of evil and sin are the origin of all of mankinds suffering.
God may, and has, on limited basis, used "natural" disasters, sickness, and "accidents" to chastize mankind... but the vast majority of what afflicts man are brought about by man's own actions. Past and present.
2007-12-13 05:45:21 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd argue that the God described in the Bible is so contradictory and schizoid that people tend to give him a hemipersonalityectomy - the Westboro folks tend to forget that God or Jesus ever spoke of love, and many more liberal Christians forget that Jesus came with a sword or that God spends a fair chunk of the OT smiting the hell out of people.
2016-05-23 09:45:38 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The I AM isn't angry or hateful at all the true Lord is pure love absolutely pure and beautiful. The Lord loves all his Children on earth because in his eyes all of us are unique.
He created this universe and this planet as a class room for us to learn he is good his creation is good.
2007-12-13 05:47:57 · answer #7 · answered by triton 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because, if god has the power to end suffering but doesnt, then he cannot be loving/merciful.
could you watch children be neglected, abused, molested and stand by doing nothing? (claim that because adam and eve ate some fruit it is their punishment, and they deserve it...?)
could u stand by watching someone get raped, robbed, beaten? could you say they deserved it because of their sin against god?
what loving being could do that...? what loving and merciful being could watch these events take place, while having the ability/power to stop it, yet refuses to on grounds adam/eve ate some fruit. (or that those people deserve it for any various reason...?)
- a mothers love must be greater than gods. a mother will continue to love her child even if her child does not love her back.
edit: im going to assume the thumbs down means that if you had the power to stop any of those events you wouldnt. and that in doing so you would still be considered a good person. this is why i dont like religion.
2007-12-13 05:40:34 · answer #8 · answered by Chippy v1.0.0.3b 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I believe that God is just and loving. It is not hate or anger that causes God to condemn, but justice. We all deserve eternal punishment. (*ooh, no, I don't! You're mean!* etc, etc. Yes, you do, and you know it.) It is evidence of God's love and grace that we don't all go to hell.
If you foolishly persist in believing that people are inherently good, and it's God that is evil, there's nothing I can do about that. It is pretty clear to me that it's people that are evil instead.
2007-12-13 05:47:32 · answer #9 · answered by klm78_2001 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no forgiveness without repentance. This is the warm and fuzzy Jesus heresy. There is forgiveness for every sin, once the sin is forsaken. Forgiveness is not a license to sin.
2007-12-13 05:39:44 · answer #10 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋