Here is the guts of what some believe and teach about the angry vindictive God:
1. God has been done wrong. He holds a grudge. He keeps a record of wrongs.
2. God must be satisfied. It is impossible that he should absorb pain, instead he demands to be made whole.
3. God is going to kill us for our sin. But instead he kills, tortures and slaughters Jesus. God is a murderer.
4. After the killing of Jesus, our angry vindictive God is happy again.
Here is the point of this blog post. If you believe in the God as described above, you believe in a god that we are not supposed to follow. Here is what I mean.
In this life we are not supposed to focus on how we have been done wrong. We are not to hold a grudge. We are not to be vindictive. 1 Corinthians 13 tells us to not keep a record of wrongs. We are not to demand to be satisfied. If we follow Jesus, we will learn to absorb pain, not deliver it. We are not to kill. Thou shall not kill. We don't believe in torture or murder. We need to seek happiness whether life has gone our way or not.
Think about how you believe in God. We cannot duplicate the behaviors of the angry, vindictive God, in fact if we did we would be in jail. I want to follow a God that I can actually emulate.
Maybe it is time to believe in a God that is truly Godly. A God of love and grace.
It's a beautiful day in God's world be sure to see the good.
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Paris-Normandy River Cruise
October 23-31, 2019
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Holy Land Trip leaving January 20, 2020
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Treasures of Ireland
July 13-22, 2020
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Lands of the Bible Cruise
Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Italy and the Holy Land
October 24-November 6, 2020
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