The below statements are based upon my own experience. I recognise that not all Christians believe in a “wrathful God”, and that not all people have had wrathful parents, although all of humanity no matter how kind, perpetrate sin (feelings, beliefs and actions out of harmony with God’s definition of love) against others to some extent, but especially their children, as none of us have been fully educated by God about what love is. It is also important to note that militant atheists or people who are angry with God, also actually have faith in the “wrathful God”, otherwise they would not be in a rage with religion and God.
In previous posts I presented the many examples of how God is portrayed in the Bible as a wrathful and vengeful character. Since the majority of Christians believe in the Bible as the absolute word of God, they must by default have faith in a punishing, malevolent father figure. There are several reasons why we justify having faith in the myth of a wrathful “God” and refuse to challenge it, which requires of us to open our hearts and experience a significant amount of emotional pain. This pain is the pain of the untruth, the pain of a lie, which is painful simply because it contradicts God’s Truth, it contradicts and is in disagreement with the Loving God and how this God has designed the universe in which we exist. It is an actual blasphemy to believe of God to be someone who God is not, and who is in fact, completely opposite to the dark figure portrayed in the Bible.
If we were to deny the existence of the “wrathful God” of the Bible and seek to learn about the actual Loving God, we would have to challenge and change our whole belief system about God, ourselves and other people, particularly our own parents, not to mention challenge the Bible or the church we belong to. Outlined below are the main justifications we have to often militantly avoid the truth about the Loving God:
Below is a video of Jesus answering a question about what Christian beliefs prevent us from having a relationship with God, which includes the belief in a “wrathful God”:
20130304 Religion Christian S01Q11 – What Christian beliefs cause difficulties in finding the narrow path to God?
1. If God is love and there is no anger or wrath within God, and if I desire to be more like God, it means I have to work on eradicating my own wrathful rage. So believing in a Loving God and seeking a relationship with this God, means I have to now look at my own disharmony with God’s Love, it means I have to want to examine and change my own convictions about what love is. To challenge the false belief in a “wrathful God”, means I have to challenge my own character flaws.
Since most of us like being angry, because we like having power over our feelings using anger, we prefer to believe that God is angry, punishing and wrathful so we can maintain our own rage. Each time we get angry, harsh and judgmental with another person, we actually believe we are loving them, or at least that we are righteous in our treatment of them. It helps us to believe that being angry is loving, since the “God” we believe in is also angry and we are the image of that “God”.
This justified rage is the mechanism we use to avoid our own pain particularly in relation to our own sin (feelings and actions out of harmony with God’s definition of love), which we have perpetrated and continue to perpetrate against others and ourselves. To maintain the belief that God is wrathful, is to maintain our own self-righteous and evil definition of love, so we can continue to justify our own sin.
Below is a video by Jesus and Mary discussing the importance of facing personal error, before God can share God’s Truth with us:
20130929 Divine Truth S05Q03 – Qualities of Divine Truth: Quality 14: Personal “truth” must be faced before Divine Truth can be found.
2. We firmly hold onto the Bible version of God as a wrathful, jealous and vengeful character, because it allows us to accept our parents’ wrath, rage and vengeance that they have perpetrated and likely continue to perpetrate against us. God as our creator is our true parent, so everything we have learnt from our parents we automatically attribute to God. If we are to believe that God is all Loving, Merciful and Compassionate, then we must face the pain of our own parents not loving us. As God shares the truth with us, that truth contradicts our false beliefs, which is a painful experience, that we desire to avoid at all cost.
Below is a video by Jesus and Mary discussing why we must face personal error, before God can share God’s Truth with us:
20130929 Divine Truth S05Q04 – Qualities of Divine Truth: Quality 14: Why must I face personal “truth” before finding God’s Truth?
To maintain the concept of a wrathful “God”, therefore helps us to excuse our earthly parents’ wrathful and unloving behaviour, only to avoid our own painful feelings associated with that behaviour. This belief helps us to maintain harmful and toxic relationships based on false beliefs about love. Therefore to challenge the idea of a “wrathful God” and desire to have a relationship with the Loving God, means challenging the relationship with our own parents. It will mean disagreement and a potential disassociation from the people we currently believe love us, and who we believe we love and this is unthinkable for many, if not majority of people.
3. Majority of Christians are actually terrified of God. If we believe in the God of the Bible, who is portrayed as a megalomaniac and a tyrant in the Old Testament and a blood thirsty murderer in the New Testament, what else can we feel other than terror of this “wrathful God”? Especially for those of us who have been violently treated in the name of God, there is a very real fear that God will get violent with us, and therefore questioning the character of the “wrathful God” is out of the question. The fear-based belief in the “wrathful God” prevents us from asking God for God’s Truth, yet alone for God’s Love. However, if we desire to have a relationship with God, we must be willing to face this fear emotionally.
In the below video Jesus and Mary discuss how holding onto our fear prevents us from having a relationship with God:
20140519 Emotions S05Q06 – Is a connection with God possible when we are afraid?
In addition, to avoid having to challenge our false beliefs about God or even to contemplate the flawed definition of the “wrathful God” of the Bible (Old Testament), most Christians simply substitute God with Jesus. They attempt to have a relationship with Jesus, to avoid the “wrathful Father,” because Jesus is mostly portrayed to actually be kind and loving in the New Testament. We choose to believe Jesus is God, which is not actually stated anywhere in the Bible (but many statements are deliberately misinterpreted), simply to avoid having to face the “wrathful God” we believe in. We refuse to feel the painful feelings about the lies we have been taught and indoctrinated with about God, as well as about our own parents not loving and mistreating us, and most of all, the dreadful feelings resulting from our own sin, hoping that Jesus will save us from these feelings, from the sin that our false beliefs actually are. Yet only God can redeem us, by helping us to feel God’s Truth and God’s Love for us.
To have a relationship with the True God, will challenge our beliefs about love, as God teaches us what love is and what it is not. Deep inside we all feel that anger, wrath, judgment, punishment and vengeance are not love. No body likes to be subjected to these feelings from others, especially God if God was capable of having them. Therefore there must be a strong desire to deny our feelings in order to accept the concept of a “wrathful God”.
A person who truly desires God’s Truth will have to be desirous of challenging and eradicating from within themselves the blasphemous lies about God, and the lies about themselves, their own character and that of the people around them.
For those of us who sincerely wish to develop a relationship with God, which can only be based on truth, we must pray to the Loving Father to help us open our soul’s eyes, to seek God’s Truth about God Himself and to feel God’s feelings towards us and for us. It is not easily done, considering that we believe God will have nothing but contempt for our sin, that God will reject, smite or even destroy us (given our faith in a “wrathful, God”), but it is essential to allow God to help us to see the truth that God has only Love, Mercy and Compassion toward us and is there to help us repent for our sin.
I leave you with Jesus and Mary discussing true faith, which must be based on the truth of a Loving God:
20130410 Padgett Messages – 19160420 A Solomon P2
Loving God 