They call jealousy the green eyed monster. But maybe just like the Incredible Hulk, perhaps jealousy is just misunderstood.
As a youth, I remember people saying in church that God was a jealous God while at the same time saying that God was the only God. That was confusing to me, because I did not know who God could possibly be jealous of. To tell the truth, it made God sound like a schizophrenic. No offense to schizophrenic friends. I’m just saying that how can someone who is unique ever be jealous–let alone an all-knowing, all-powerful, ever present someone. Trying to reconcile that was a painful mental exercise. I did get some comfort out of the idea that maybe the way they used the word jealous in ye olde Bible writing times was different then how we used it now. I saw on an online Bible site that positive jealousy means – a passionate commitment to something which rightly belongs to one. So for God to be jealous makes…
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