GOD IS NEVER JEALOUS

In the beginning the elohim created skies and earth.

Welcome back. Let’s think about a God who is never jealous.

As I said before, God does not have to be jealous. God is not a being among beings who is jealous of others. God simply is what God is.

Even if God were such a Supreme Being, what rival makes God so insecure that he--this god is certainly peckerfied—wants to smash his unfaithful beloved and her love interest?

I know about all those verses in the Bible about the jealous god, but I have an answer to that. Can you guess what it is?

Can you?

Wait for it.

It’s obvious and easy to guess.

Jesus is our final judgment about God. No where have I seen in the gospels a single time Jesus manifested the slightest jealousy.

In fact, the earliest gospel writer has Jesus’ students complaining about a man who was casting out demons in Jesus’ name. Jesus says, “Don’t stop him!  After all, no one who performs a miracle in my name will turn around the next moment and curse me. In fact, whoever is not against us is on our side.”

What is interesting about that passage is Jesus never said it. The early church believed this about him so the gospel writer had him say it.

Who knows what jealousies existed among those first and second generation Christians?  We get a glimpse of some serious God-envy in Acts where Paul and the Jerusalem church butt heads. Paul’s letters contain passages that suggest rivalries existed from the very beginning.

So for the writer we call Mark to have written the passage above about Jesus suggests that he understood his connection to God well enough to imagine him divinely.

Our God of love is not jealous, ya’ll. Stop believing God is.

Blessings…