Does it make sense that God would be a Jealous God ???
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Yeah, there is a scripture that says something like "I am a jealous God" (not exact quote) and I have no idea what exactly it was referring to, but it was not our supreme being saying he was jealous.  Geez Louise!  Whomever wrote that surely wasn't quoting God.  God is all love and I would imagine in a constant state of bliss.  Can you really imagine him being angry or jealous.   I don't care what Sunday School teaches, that's just silly!
911970
the God i know is not a jealous God\nhe is a God that wants people to love people no matter what \nand that is never deserving of hell
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More importantly, and I suspect this is what you're getting at, why would a god who wants worship set himself up to be totally illogical and irrational? I think that if there was a god controlling it all, we'd be somehow predispositioned to believing in him, rather than having to ignore all logic and reason just to get into heaven.
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When you love somebody, do you not enjoy talking about how wonderful they are and praising them to other people?  And isn't that a pleasure?  Now imagine if the object of your love were perfect, how much greater your pleasure in praising that object would be.  God invites you to praise and worship Him in order to make you happy- to enjoy Him and enjoy your relationship with Him.  It's not like He's a vain idiot who needs to fish for admiration and flattery all the time.  He doesn't need any of that.  He doesn't ask you to do it for His sake, but for your own.
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With your point comes an important one.  First, the OT implies many gods "I am A vain and jealous god (implying there must be more).  Worship no other gods BEFORE me (implying its ok to worship after him).\nAlso, to think of a being as powerful and omnipitent as God looks like us, thinks like us, and has human emotions JUST LIKE US is rediculous.  I think that's just humans putting a face on God to better relate.
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The God of the Old Testament certainly exhibits a violent nature. He is truly not a God of love or compassion. I notice his personality makes drastic changes from time to time. The more I study the Bible, the more I am coming to think that it is no more than myth.
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Yes\n\nExodus 20\n5...for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments.\n\nNumbers 14:18\n'The LORD is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation.'
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well, humans are so arrogant, we not only create a myth about some god, some said that he looks like a human. give me a break. god is a tool created to explain unknown things like dead and life, it does not look like something
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Exactly, ! worship the creator , not the creation.... It follows by logical necessity that if God is one, and if He is eternal, Then He does not beget , Nor is he begotten. Because if He beget, then He will have a child then the child will have to be God-like. So there will then be two Gods. Since there is only one, you cannot have two.  OR If he was begotten, that means he would have father. Then the father will be older than him, wiser than him, more eternal than him. and you cannot have one who is more eternal than ETERNAL.
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I'm agnostic, myself. But if God does exist, it doesn't seem like there's much he won't allow to happen. Whether or not he favors the idea would probably be a better question. And to answer that one...I don't know. I can't know. And neither can anyone else here, regardless of what they may tell you.\n\nn4mwd: You seem pretty arrogant, for someone who has no idea what he's talking about. How does spelling God incorrectly...no, not even spelling it incorrectly, just not capitalizing it, equate to not believing in God? That is complete and utter nonsense. And I have no idea whether or not the soul exists, or what it is, but identical twins are not clones.
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If there is a God I would hope it would have the characteristics of neither male nor female.  Human characteristics at all might flaw the Deity.  We humans are a sad state, I would want a God that was perfect.
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I agree with u i think those emotions are human made emotions not of God since he is  in fact GOD he would be be above all that wouldnt he? ;P I believe in a loving God higher power And no its not just so that I can run around and sin my lil heart out I have morals. I just dont believe in every word the bible says just because its in there. Its so annoying when u ask a person a question and they are like duh its in the bible and you just wanna say DUH if the bible told u ur father was the anti christ would u believe it?!
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Well, you would too if you created the ENTIRE universe!  But seriously, God doesn't have an ego, Satan does, and that's why God threw him out of heaven.   No words can properly explain to the fullest who God is, the only way someone can know who God is, is to have a relationship with Him.  My father is an atheist and he wanted my mother who is catholic to raise us without a religion.  So, I grew up knowing in my heart as a child that there was a God, but not having a religion structure to explain to me.  Well, God gave me dreams as a teenager, which eventually led me to get saved when I was 18.  And by the way, God DID appear to people, as Jesus, and will return again in the future.  God doesn't have an ego, He wouldn't have died on the cross and suffered for our salvation.  God loves us and wants whats best for us.  Satan is jealous of God and people because he can't be god, and he can't get saved like humans.  God won't forgive him so he's jealous that God forgives us, and satan tries to lead us down a path of destruction to hell.
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being jealous is the same as judging other people, so i would say Christians would sin for not putting god first\n\nPutting god first is a commandment: Let go and let god
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People's idea of God can vary greatly. Some hate him and blame him for every bad thing that happens in this world. But what do we know?  Some don't know him. Some just claim they do. Other people love him and each one's reason might be different. I will tell you, though, there is nothing like a real relationship with the true God. Plugging in can give you a real sense of purpose in Life.
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For God to want to become one with His creation....with His children.\n He made us, not just to worship Him, but to be part of Him....even ONE with Him...\n \nII CORINTHIANS 11:2\n   For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. \n\n EPHESIANS 5:30-32\n   30    For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. \n   31    For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. \n   32    This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. \n\nI JOHN 3:2\n    Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.\n \nAs far as i can see, this is the central theme of the Bible. It is the whole reason why we are having this relationship with God.\n\nTo know more,click here...\nhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/bibletruths_forbelievers/
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Satan is jealous because Satan wants all of God's power for himself. Lucifer was not happy with the gifts that God had given him; he wanted the gifts that God didn't give him, that were rightfully God's.\n\nNo, Satan does not want to see people happy. He will offer and provide people with things that they think they want, but these "gifts" will prove themselves to be illusory, in that ultimately they don't bring happiness but instead create within the person the need for more, or something different.\n\nAs far as Satan's loneliness goes...anyone is lonely when they willingly cut themselves off from God. The best they can manage is to distract themselves from their loneliness, and one way they distract themselves is by seeking to hoard lots of stuff that isn't God's. Satan seeks to hoard human souls, so as those souls no longer belong to God. So, whatever loneliness Satan may have, it is best that you not go around getting caught up in compassion for his plight, because the fact is that he hates you and will exploit any potential weakness to lure you away from God. That is, if you have compassion for Satan, he will not be moved. He will just see that as an opportunity to attempt to murder your soul.