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Transcript 543A — Why Does God Get Angry?
HC: Good evening. Welcome to Open Forum.
CALLER: Why does God get angry? If He knows that somebody is going to sin, why does He go through the motion of getting angry? I can understand why He does not like sin. Why not just say something about it, as opposed to getting angry about it?
HC: That's an interesting question. The question is, why does God become angry? Insofar as God shows the fact that He is angry, God deals with mankind as a Father. He's the Creator, of course, and God says on the one hand that He is merciful, on the other hand that He is jealous, and that jealousy is not a sinful jealousy such as we have, a jealousy of envy. But it's a jealousy that He wants no one worshipped but Himself, because we are created to glorify Him, and anything less than that is rebellion against God.
And God indicates His anger to warn us of the coming wrath of God, that will come upon us. It's an anger that is for our benefit, really. It's an anger to show us that we're in trouble if we rebel against God, and if we don't do something about our sins. We've got hell to pay, and that's not a cliche. That's absolutely a fact.
CALLER: Okay. I appreciate that very much.