Is God a hypocrite?

Question

"I will forgive whom I will forgive, but yee must forgive all men."

Answer 1

No, of course God is not a hypocrite. He practices exactly what he preaches.

"I, the Lord, will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men."
http://scriptures.lds.org/dc/64

Do you understand that that is a quote from the Doctrine and Covenants of the Mormons, and not from sacred scripture?

Jesus did NOT teach that we must forgive all men. From Luke 17:

"If your brother sins, rebuke him, and IF HE REPENTS, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him."

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

A hypocrite is someone who says one thing...and does another..

God is saying you are commanded to do this, and I will do that.

If the owner of the company you work for says, "You must arrive on time, but I shall come when I please"...is he being a hypocrite?

I submit, and so would you I believe, that he(or she) is not.

You recognize that he is superior to you, in this case instance at least, and therefore has authority to demand you act one way, and he may act another.

How is that different?...It is not...it is exactly the same model as the real world..the boss, head coach..whatever you call him...calls the shots.

Secondly...apparently you are suggesting we should have the same standard as God...

Is it not reasonable that God has a higher standard?

At work, again..if you are head of quality control..and your owner says..."you pass everything..and I shall pass what I select"....is that not reasonable..the owner sets a higher standard...a higher judgement.

Would it be your contention that we have a higher standard than God?......or even the same?

Would it not be fair to say that as God, he knows more about the souls in question..their reasons for sin, their motivations, the level of physical and spiritual restitution...than you do?

Of course it is...so since our authority is weaker, and that we CANNOT know the WHOLE story, and God does, and that the final quality control check is God's anyway...is it not only a reasonable, but a perfectly logical statement that God has made?

I submit it is.

Answer 3

NO HE IS NOT!!! he is saying he will forgive, and we must forgive everyone. we must forgive even when others don't ask for forgivness, God forgives everyone. didn't you ever consider that maybe his words were taken out of the correct context???

Answer 4

I was going to make a sarcastic post about god not being subject to his own rules, but it seems the religious nuts have made enough of those SERIOUSLY.

Really, how does it make any sense for the guy who supposedly makes the rules to be held to a LOWER standard?

Answer 5

He is not a hypocrite.

That means if you don't forgive people who have sinned against you then the Lord won't forgive you.

Answer 6

Absolutely not !!!!!!!!!!! You must understand first, that God is the one and only judge and only He will be seated in front of us on judgement day. His commandment is for us not to judge others but to love them.

Answer 7

God is about the only one who is not a hypocrite.

Answer 8

No. He will forgive the ones that follow His teachings. God's forgiveness if righteous. We are incapable of being righteous.

Answer 9

No, God is not a hypocrite. He is incapable of error and therefore DOES NOT have to play by the same rules we - fallible humans - do. Our rules were given to us by him to keep us out of trouble. God knows no trouble, only righteousness.

Answer 10

Who the hell cares anyway?

Wow, reading these answers saying he's perfect and whatnot. If memory serves me correctly, wasn't it god who created us in HIS image and LIKENESS? Thus if we're like him, then he IS capable of error.

I'm an atheist, so none of this actually means anything to me.