Anger is not a strange an emotionalism to God, He shows anger.

(…continues from part Seven…)

8)            “God has never been angry,” taught Dr Abel. He shot his didactic feet for maintaining, “Anger is strange to God. God has never been angry before. He is not angry now; and He will never be angry.” Damina why are you so bent on prevarication of God’s Bible? Genesis 6:6 “And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.” The Hebrew word ‛âtsab (aw-tsab’) is the English ‘grieved’ and it has the definition of: ‘properly to carve, that is, fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger.’ The word ‘repented’ is nâcham (naw-kham’): ‘properly to sigh, that is, breathe strongly; by implication to be sorry, that is, (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself).’ Let this verse allow us have a theological understanding about God. My deep theological study has opened a vista of enablement into the character of the Godhead; and the same goes for any serious Bible student. If it says of the Almighty Creator, ‘repented’, ‘grieved’ and ‘heart’; what tends to shape in mentality is the rationality of Adamic intelligence which begins to apprehend the failure of creationism and that of His Almightiness, the Creator. That ‘it repented the LORD’ does not, in any conceivability, underscore God’s extemporaneous faux pas.

                His Omniscience rightly spotlights the fact that absolutely nothing takes God by surprise. This is the reason why no one can win any played game against the Omniscient Jehovah. So, you ask, “Why was He displaying angst over man’s degeneration?” Understand one thing here: it was not the reflective rue upon His Divinity that was playing out in this context. His emotional exhibition was a directed judgment on Adamic iniquitous adventurism. It was an emotional ire, fixed on the sentence, He had already given to the disobedience of Adam’s progenies: for millions of them were about to suffer annihilation, drowning in the great deluge. The contrariness of Damina’s mind said, “God has never been angry.”

“Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city” (Genesis 18:24).

                Is Damina the Antichrist himself or just working for the man of perdition? If you allow the shallowness of mind to make you view the heart of God as a fleshy blood flowing organ of life sustenance, you are totally operating under beguilement of Satanism. God is not in possession of a heart of blood pumping palpitations. Only earthly mortality of beings have blood running through their veins: keeping us alive. It is very necessary for God to emote so that man can relate to Him. Does it not say, “Let Us create man (i.e. Adam) in Our Image and likeness?” We have not anatomical likeness of God, but rather in the outwardness of eyes, head, neck, torso and limbs. In the likeness of our Maker, we make verbal utterances as well.

                Abraham said to the LORD God in His preincarnation manifestation of Genesis 18:24 “Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?” Damina, why, tell me, will God destroy the lives of two big nations if not out of anger? In Exodus 4:24-26, God would have killed Gershom, the son of Moses and Zipporah, his wife, for not abiding by the covenant of the circumcision. Concerning God’s anger, these are the lyrics of the psalmist: “Who knoweth the power of thine anger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath” (Psalm 90:11). It also says, “Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry” (Psalm 76:7)?

It is better not to experience God’s anger.

                What does it mean by “For our God is a consuming fire” that we read in Hebrews 12:29? It is a warning to those who, with lackadaisical attitude, treat the gospel of redemption with levity. Paul, here, quotes Deuteronomy 4:24 when Moses recalled God’s anger towards him for striking the Rock of ages; and that if Israel fails to obey his divine instructional prophetic utterances, like David experienced (2Samuel 24), it is a terrible thing to fall into the angry books of God. Moses told Israel, “Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance:” (Deuteronomy 4:21). The word ‘angry’ is ‘anaph (aw-naf’): ‘1. to breathe hard. 2. be enraged.’ Jesus is categorical in Luke 12:5 “But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.”

                It will be puerility smacking lack of scriptural intelligence trying to see a contradistinction in Hebrews 10:31 and 1John 4:8. Hebrews 10:31“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” 1John 4:8 “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”  While Pauline verse admonishes practitioners of Christianity to live lives pleasing onto God Who first loved us; as the Judge, He neither takes bribes nor gives respect to faces when it comes to Divine judiciary. Johannine couch teaches God’s inherent and indubitable attribute: Love. His love is best expressed in John 3:16. Amen.

Get born again by saying this simple prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be continued…)

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