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Is God vengeful?	Alexandra	Friday, October 19, 2018
Question: So what been bothering me is this. It all started when I was looking for imagery for my art. I been doing this social media thing it happens every October where each day of October there is a keyword you are given to draw something but it has be using ink pens. So the 20th of October keyword was ” breakable” So I looked up on google images breakable for some inspiration. Then this image came up and said in words three things that will happen if you break the pack with the devil. So I thought oh it’s a Christian website because they had the red hands and you know black fingernails in the image . So I thought surely people who say they are satanic would never post something to protray him with red hands and black fingers nails in the bad light. So I clicked on it out of being curious and look and be hold out of terror after reading a few sentences of the website it was a satanic website. It was saying how Christian God is a vengeful God and how the devil doesn’t mind if you leave him to go to Christian God? And it was saying how they made 3 pacts to the devil. It did scared me how easily , well I notice in myself that I was influence in matter of minutes and question myself maybe I was wrong about what I thought about the devil. When I notice that thought I stopped looking at the website, but what is bothering is it said God is a vengeful God. And the only thought that came to my mind was when God in the Old Testament took first born souls in Egypt in Moses time. I thought why would God do that? Those children were innocent they didn’t know exactly what was the pharaoh doing. That’s what bothered me and got me caught into. Can you help? I’m trying to understand all this and why God would take first born and how is that not seen vengeful? I feel highly disturbed by that website and even it exists.
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), LTh, DD Dear Alexandra: Thanks for your question. My first thought is to remind you that curiosity killed the cat. Next time you see something like this on the Web, do not click on it. As to a vengeful God: No, God is not vengeful. God is a loving father, in fact he is love itself (1 John 4:8). As such, God can do nothing else but love. On the story of Moses and the death of the firstborn, which is recorded in Exodus 12:29-36, we are not given any details. The Navarre Bible Commentary remarks that the story gives the "impression they their departure-deliverance is much more important than the last plague, however terrible we may find it today." We must remember that God expresses perfect love and perfect justice. We may not understand His ways, but that does not mean that God is not who He is as a perfect Father. God knows the future. He knows each person's soul. If God deliberately takes someone out of this life, there is a reason for it that we my not understand. But, His actions are not vengeful, cruel, or unjust. The little kids will be in Paradise, Abraham's Bosom, awaiting the Messiah to take them into heaven. Older children and adults will be judged according to their state of soul. In some cases, God may know that a particular person will grow up and be a mass murderer. God would be doing the child a favor by taking him now before the child grew-up to be such an evil person. Bottomline: Only God knows, but we can be assured that all of God's actions are perfect: perfect love, perfect justice, perfect father. Trust in Him and do not listen to devils and evil people. Keep youir eyes on Jesus. God Bless, Bro. Ignatius Mary Footer Notes: This forum is for general questions on the faith. See specific Topic Forums below: Spiritual Warfare, demons, the occult go to our Spiritul Warfare Q&S Forum. Liturgy Questions go to our Liturgy and Liturgical Law Q&A Forum Liturgy of the Hours (Divine Office) Questions go to our Divine Office Q&A Forum Defenfing the Faith Questions go to our Defending the Faith Q&A Forum Church History Questions go to our Church History Q&A Forum

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Is God vengeful?

Alexandra

Friday, October 19, 2018

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So what been bothering me is this. It all started when I was looking for imagery for my art. I been doing this social media thing it happens every October where each day of October there is a keyword you are given to draw something but it has be using ink pens. So the 20th of October keyword was ” breakable” So I looked up on google images breakable for some inspiration.

Then this image came up and said in words three things that will happen if you break the pack with the devil. So I thought oh it’s a Christian website because they had the red hands and you know black fingernails in the image . So I thought surely people who say they are satanic would never post something to protray him with red hands and black fingers nails in the bad light.

So I clicked on it out of being curious and look and be hold out of terror after reading a few sentences of the website it was a satanic website. It was saying how Christian God is a vengeful God and how the devil doesn’t mind if you leave him to go to Christian God?

And it was saying how they made 3 pacts to the devil. It did scared me how easily , well I notice in myself that I was influence in matter of minutes and question myself maybe I was wrong about what I thought about the devil. When I notice that thought I stopped looking at the website, but what is bothering is it said God is a vengeful God. And the only thought that came to my mind was when God in the Old Testament took first born souls in Egypt in Moses time. I thought why would God do that? Those children were innocent they didn’t know exactly what was the pharaoh doing. That’s what bothered me and got me caught into. Can you help? I’m trying to understand all this and why God would take first born and how is that not seen vengeful?

I feel highly disturbed by that website and even it exists.

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), LTh, DD

Dear Alexandra:

Thanks for your question.

My first thought is to remind you that curiosity killed the cat. Next time you see something like this on the Web, do not click on it.

As to a vengeful God:

No, God is not vengeful. God is a loving father, in fact he is love itself (1 John 4:8). As such, God can do nothing else but love.

On the story of Moses and the death of the firstborn, which is recorded in Exodus 12:29-36, we are not given any details. The Navarre Bible Commentary remarks that the story gives the "impression they their departure-deliverance is much more important than the last plague, however terrible we may find it today."

We must remember that God expresses perfect love and perfect justice. We may not understand His ways, but that does not mean that God is not who He is as a perfect Father.

God knows the future. He knows each person's soul. If God deliberately takes someone out of this life, there is a reason for it that we my not understand. But, His actions are not vengeful, cruel, or unjust.

The little kids will be in Paradise, Abraham's Bosom, awaiting the Messiah to take them into heaven. Older children and adults will be judged according to their state of soul. In some cases, God may know that a particular person will grow up and be a mass murderer. God would be doing the child a favor by taking him now before the child grew-up to be such an evil person.

Bottomline: Only God knows, but we can be assured that all of God's actions are perfect: perfect love, perfect justice, perfect father.

Trust in Him and do not listen to devils and evil people. Keep youir eyes on Jesus.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary

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