The leaders within organized religions have made people believe in images
of angry gods demanding all sorts of sacrifices «as no one can live up to what that image wants of us».
People of faith thought that volcanoes were caused
by angry gods.
I believe this kind of thinking comes out of a extreme version of the forensic model of the atonement which casts as God an essentially
angry God who is appeased by a loving gracious Son.
It's just part of the zeitgeist of the American religious imagination that there is a
very angry God from which Jesus can possibly be the one that would save us.
On the roof, a lightning rod, To protect
against angry Gods, We named it for Al Gore, To even up the score.
The bible is no exception with its jealous,
angry God laying waste to an entire planet, saving only his favorite.
It smacks of times when humans were fearful of the natural world and
imagined angry gods behind every natural event..
The miracle is that this weeping,
angry God still graces us to hope and to labor for peace.
It asks really good questions, but sounds more like a back cover for Beyond
An Angry God by Steve McVey, which is a great book by the way, but with a different focus than what I suspect yours is.
They are God's servants who punish criminals to show
how angry God is.
THEY thought they had to «do» sacrifices to make the sun come up in the morning, and to
please angry gods (etc.) WE test bacteria for sensitivity to various antibiotics, (etc.) The difference can not be over estimated.
Luther only found relief in his struggle with what he saw as a demanding,
angry God when he encountered God as the loving and gracious Father of the scriptures, thereby setting the stage for an angry confrontation with the church that had caused him and others so much pain.
Two thousand years ago, rogue waves were considered the work of
angry gods like Neptune or Aeolus.
Played by none other than All - Star Tobuscus himself (you know, I never even knew the guy existed before this), we'll get to see him guide Crom in his quest to avenge his wife Alena and
fight angry gods, demons, and creatures that stand in his way.
I think it's very good, and avoids the obvious parallels to the way primitive superstitions or stories
about angry gods self - reinforce, which some might find too offensive.
If only born - again Christians go to heaven, then the piles of suitcases and bags of human hair displayed at the Holocaust Museum represent thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children suffering eternal agony and the hands
of angry God.
People believed earthquakes were caused
by angry gods, not shifting tectonic plates in the Earth's surface.
THE BUZZ: This week in gaming sees us walking in the footsteps of a god, a
very angry god.
And peace and love to all
the angry God bashers out there, Im praying for you if you like it or not.
Because he is a jealous god,
an angry god, and a vengeful god.
They found that the poorest Americans were most likely to believe in the last,
the angriest God.
This is a religion based on
an angry god who's going to put most of the people on this Earth in Hell for eternity.
And that there is a day coming when he's going to pull that curtain back and you're going to see
an angry God staring down at you.
At least «god is love» is an advance from the ancient «
angry gods» paradigm, where they require sacrifices, to gain their favor.
I know I chose my evengelical parents in order to get to know that the devine part inside of me is
no angry god demanding any sacrifice in order to be in benevolent love with humanity.
This guy sincerely believes in
an angry god who burns people.
Long's reasoning is certainly in keeping with images of
the angry God of Mt. Sinai.
God can get angry but he is not
an angry God.
Yes, Jesus died a violent death, but it was not to satisfy
an angry God.
Recently, I heard a preacher loudly declaiming Jonathan Edwards's sermon «Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God.»
Not only did «Sinners in the Hands of
an Angry God»...
The concept of
a angry God and a wrathful God towards us, is no longer in my mind.
Is
it the angry God or the God of love?
I agree, there are those that do attend churches that preach «Hand of
an angry God» view of Faith, but maybe you need to visit a church or two because I know ours and it is of the Joy and Love of Jesus message.
Are you speaking more of a John Edward s «Hands of
an Angry God» type of sermon?
Is God really
the Angry God, or the God of love?
He was
an angry God and hard to please.
But if covenant also describes a state - ment of historical fact» as Jews and Christians have been inclined to believe» then poor behavior may make for
an angry God, but it does not retroactively annul what happened on Sinai or Pentecost.
This analogy should only be used if it is clear that the concentration camp commandant is not an example of
an angry God the Father but of the devil - it is the devil and evil and sin that causes Jesus's suffering not (directly) God.
If god * had * to sacrifice his son to appease himself, according to some «
angry gods» paradigm, then he was not in control of the paradigm, and could not have been it's creator.