Sentences with phrase «is angry about sin»

We must admit that the vast majority of Bible translators hold a view of God in which He is angry about sin and violent toward humanity as a result.

Do you believe God is angry about sin?

Not exact matches

Hopefully, this email has helped you see that God is not angry with you about your sin, nor is He looking for ways to keep from forgiving you.

The reason God tells us not to sin, is not because He is angry at us about sin, or will be angry with us if we sin.

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

When I write in my book The Atonement of God that God was not angry about sin, and did not need Jesus to die so that we could be forgiven, people get upset that I am presenting a God who looks and acts just like Jesus Christ instead of like a Hitlerian Zeus.

In an unfallen world it would always have been welcomed with joy, but the reality of sin means that it is most often heard either with a sadness borne of honesty that leads to repentance and peace, or else by a shrug of dismissive indifference and then by bitter and angry rejection — well, the Lord spoke frankly about the lethal danger that lay down that road!

So instead of God being called a bully, we say his judgements are indisputable, unchangeable and everlasting; he is better than us, high and lifted up, all powerful and holy; he is disappointed or sorrowful or angry about our sin; he constantly convicts us by the Holy Spirit; he sends us suffering in order to teach us, discipline us and inevitably bring us in line with his ways; and he threatens us with exclusion from him and his group now or forever in Hell unless we repent and straighten up.

Rather than thinking about sin as the thing we do that makes God angry, I believe it's more appropriate to think about sin as something we think / say / do that is outside of God's ideal.

God loves you more than you can possibly know, and while He is saddened by the pain you have experienced from your sin, He is not angry with you about your sin.

Maybe we should start listening to those angry voices who are trying to tell us about our sins.