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Default Anger is NOT a sin - 08-30-2013, 02:07 PM

God is angry all the time, and He is perfect (Mat 5:48) and unable to sin (Jas 1:13).

Ps 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. (See also Num 11:1; Deut 32:16, 21; Jdg 2:12; 2 Sam 11:27; 1 Ki 16:33; 2 Ki 17:18; Job 9:5; Is 5:25; 59:15)

You
wouldn’t like Him when He’s angry.

Nah 1:6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. (See also Ps 76:7; 90:11)

It’s okay for Christians to get angry too.

Mat 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Some (mis)translations, such as the Notoriously Inaccurate Version, omit the underlined phrase. People who use false Bible translations get the impression that this verse is telling Christians not to get angry.
But according to the real Bible, the KJV 1611, being angry is okay as long as you have a good reason. It’s even okay to be angry with your brother in Christ. What distinguishes us from unbelievers is that we don’t just get angry with people for no reason at all. When you’re angry, just make sure you don’t call your brother a fool, even though it was all right for Jesus and Paul to call people fools when they were angry (Mat 23:17, 19; Gal 3:1).

One verse that is often used by fluffy-bunny Christians to support the notion that Christians shouldn’t get angry is Ephesians 4:31.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

They just ignore verse 26.

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

It’s okay to be angry, just don’t sin. Context, people! If you’re angry with your brother, confront him before sundown (Mat 18:15; Eph 4:26b). If he doesn’t listen to you, bring witnesses (Mat 18:16). If he doesn’t listen to them, ask a pastor to name and shame him in front of the church (Mat 18:17). If he doesn’t listen to the church, shun him (Mat 18:18); hand him over to Satan for the destruction of his flesh (1 Cor 5:5). Conflict resolution 101.

Another frequently misquoted verse is James 1:20.

For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

But what does the preceding verse say?

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

The Bible tells us to be slow to anger, not never to get angry (see also Prov 14:29; 15:18; 16:32; Eccl 7:9). God is slow to anger (Num 4:18). After all, He has been waiting 6,000 years to cast the wicked into the lake of fire. And Jesus has been waiting 2,000 years to come back in judgement. How much more patient can you get? It took God 120 years to get angry enough to drown all the men, women, babies and animals in the world (Gen 6:3) – except Noah, his family and the animals on the ark. It took God a few years to get angry enough with Moses to want to kill him for not circumcising his son (Ex 4:24-26). Because the Bible tells us God is slow to anger, we know He was slow to anger even when He instantly struck down Uzzah for touching the Ark of the Covenant to keep it from falling (2 Sam 6:6-7). We Christians are being transformed into God’s image (2 Cor 3:18). We should emulate His longsuffering.

We see an example of righteous anger (or righteous indignation) when Jesus cleansed the temple.

Jn 2:13-17
13 And the Jews' passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:
15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;
16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
17 And his disciples remembered that it was written, The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.

How do we know it was righteous anger? Because Jesus was not angry for selfish reasons. He was angry because money-hungry Jews had turned His Father’s house into a market. Jesus was consumed with righteous anger. But did He sin in His anger? Did He go too far when He whipped the merchants and destroyed their property? No.

2 Cor 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

Heb 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

Jesus knew no sin. Though He was tempted as we are, He never sinned.

We see another example of righteous anger in Numbers 25.

6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

God had sent a plague among the Israelites because some of them had married foreign wives and weren’t worshipping Him anymore. Phineas got angry when he saw one such mixed-race couple enter the camp, so he speared them. Was Phineas slow to anger? Check. Was his anger righteous? Check. He was not angry for selfish reasons; he was angry because an Israelite had disobeyed God. Did Phineas sin in his anger? Evidently not, for God commended him and blessed him with an everlasting priesthood that lasted until Jesus took over as Priest.

Num 25:11-13
11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

But if we look at Phineas’ ancestor Levi, we see an example of sinful anger. In Genesis 34 Jacob’s daughter Dinah gets raped. Jacob, being a righteous man, arranges for his daughter to marry her rapist. But Levi and Simeon, Dinah’s brothers, trick Shechem, the rapist, and all the men of his city into getting circumcised. Three days later, when they are weak and in pain and unable to fight, Levi and Simeon kill them all and take their livestock and wives and children as spoil.

Now God doesn’t have any problem with wiping out entire cities (Gen 19, for example). But He wasn’t pleased with Levi and Simeon (Gen 49:5-7). First, they had no reason to be angry. Their sister had been raped. So what? It would have been set right when she married her rapist (Deut 22:28-29). Second, they broke their word (Num 30:2). They had agreed to let Shechem marry Dinah if he got circumcised. Shechem had upheld his side of the bargain.

The unregenerate mind may not be able to discern the difference between the righteous anger in Numbers 25 and the sinful anger in Genesis 34. But for those of us with renewed minds, the distinction is crystal clear. It’s not a sin to be angry. If it were, God would be the worst offender.


Mt 21:42, 44 Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes . . . ? And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.

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