Re: The Imaginary God

Right, but did Jesus experience the sinful human emotions of hate, envy, jealousy (that is selfish human jealousy)? As far as my understanding, Jesus may have been tempted by Satan but remained sinless. Jesus may have expressed righteous anger, just as in the times of the Old Testament. When it is judged by man, we judge God as if he was a human, people might 'see look even God get's angry just like us!' Again, my view is that it is because with God it only comes from love and trying to help us and fighting against sin. With man, our anger comes from selfishness and other negative reasons. If Christians think they are being righteous by embracing the traits of jealousy, anger (they might call it righteous anger), and hate, and tell themselves they are doing God's work because that is how God behaves, I think they are seriously deluding themselves. No man in righteous, so what makes us think that we can show righteous anger? For the most part, it really is just regular old anger.

No, I think we are much better off, sitting in prayer at the feet of Christ and basking in His pure love, loving all people, being humble. And if one day, through Christ, someone can attain righteousness, then maybe there could be some person displaying righteous anger. For the most part, I think Christians should leave the righteous anger to God, and just try to love everyone and feed God's sheep to the best of our ability. God tells us to love our enemies, but God is not human and He will smite His enemies (which is death and hell) with the sword.