I hate God

eternity75 · Dec 1, 2016

In the past I often felt angry with God for allowing me to suffer through horrible things. I couldn't understand how a God who loved me allowed this suffering in my life. But I have since come to a few understandings and when things are difficult I remind myself of something. It's not God who creates these things in our lives, it is Satan. So now when I am suffering, I hate Satan.

At one time, humans walked side by side with God. Satan tempted us (Adam and Eve) to disobey God and do what he said instead. This separated us from God. God doesn't enjoy seeing us suffer, but we suffer because of Satan.

Look at the story of Job. Was God attacking Job, or was Satan? Satan was doing everything in his power to make Job suffer so that Job would become angry with God and turn his back to God. This is exactly what happens in our daily lives. Satan throws bad things at us, hoping we will become angry with God and end up hating God. And he (Satan) knows exactly how to do this. He knows what could potentially break us. God has the power to deliver us, to save us, but he also wants to know that we are faithful, just as with Job.

The Bible says God works all things to the good of those who love him. So he can turn even our worst circumstances into good. But we need to continue to show our faithfulness, trust, and love for him. "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28

Everything God creates is good and beautiful. Everything Satan creates is ugly and destructive. So when something ugly and destructive shows up in your life, remember it is not of God, it is from Satan and he is using it to try and break you, to pull you away from God. That is his ultimate goal. You are blaming the wrong guy. Remain faithful and loving with God, draw closer to Him, and whatever horrible circumstances are happening in your life right now, he will work to your good, no matter how bad they have been.

(BTW I was raised in a racist Christian cult lead by a white supremacist, so I understand where you are coming from.)

Kenny G · Dec 1, 2016

I love your honesty. Writing this on Christian Forum must take courage. I know you don't really mean it. I think God love you anyway. He know you don't really mean to hate anyone. He love me I know so if he love me, he can love anyone!

Take care.

Received · Dec 1, 2016

Know the feeling. But I think the very intention to hate God indicates a false image of God which will make better sense when our hatred passes. It's the false image of God, and not God, we're hating. Importantly, I think it's important to express this hate, even if the image is false, because that's part of authentic communication. Even Jesus had the wrong image of the Father when he said "why hast thou forsaken me?" The Father clearly didn't forsake Jesus then.

And hatred is complicated. It often makes certain assumptions, like about the future; I might hate God because I secretly think the excrement I'm wading through won't end, or when it ends it won't have something to it that works together for good.

I think it's good to express our hatred openly to God, because that helps begin the process of shedding the skin of the false image we have of him. And it's not really hatred if the image is false, IMO. Hatred of God means not doing his commandments, i.e., his will; by contrast "if you love me you will do my commandments" (John 14). So in some weird cases I think it's even the will of God to "hate away" the false image you have of God.

Goodbook · Dec 1, 2016

Well i hate the god of this world too.
My Lord is Jesus, and Jesus crushes the god of this world satan under his feet. Dont look back, look to Jesus. Say get behind me satan.

Remember that we belong to our Heavenly Father, not the father of lies anymore who masquerades as god.

YouAreAwesome · Dec 1, 2016

I understand the feeling, especially after great loss. For me, I went through a huge long time of questioning even to the point of almost becoming an athiest. I found a few keys I believe during this time:

1. GOD IS NOT A PUPPET MASTER CONTROLLING PEOPLE OR EVENTS THAT HAPPEN ON THE EARTH. Therefore blaming Him actually doesn't make sense.
2. GOD REALLY REALLY REALLY LOVES YOU! I know it's cheesy, but it's absolutely the foundation of moving forward.
3. God is not insecure. He can take it. It's perfectly fine to hate God for a while. Express your feelings to Him. Say it all aloud. Let it out in honesty and openess. He's not afraid of this, it's absolutely GOOD to do this. Deep relationships always go through these kinds of trials and come out better on the other side.
4. When we surrender to Him, His peace comes and tells us it will all be okay. There's just something nice about knowing He never abandons us.

May God Help you and work through you Mightily, in Jesus Name.

LovebirdsFlying · Dec 1, 2016

Ever been mad at your earthly parents? Especially when we're still little children, and our emotions aren't as developed, there may be times we feel (even say) that we hate them. Maybe they didn't let us do something we wanted to do, or they made rules for us that we thought were unfair. I'm talking about ideal situations here, and ignoring for right now the possibility of a truly dysfunctional or abusive parent. Even in the best family settings, a child will throw a tantrum sometimes over being told "No."

The thing is, parents have reasons for telling the child "No" sometimes. No, you can't have cookies and ice cream for breakfast. No, you can't play video games all day long. No, you can't hang around with that neighbor who is constantly offering you cookies and ice cream and inviting you over for video games. Good parents know something that children haven't learned yet: Those things aren't healthy choices, and there is something off about the neighbor that it's going to be difficult to explain to the child. The child needs to trust and do as the parent says, even if the child doesn't understand. While the child thinks, "If you loved me, you would let me have what I want," the parent knows what actually is good for the child. "No" happens precisely *because* the parent loves the child.

It's the same way with us and God. A lot has happened in my life that I don't understand why He allowed it, if He says He loves me so much. Is He trying to torture me? Is He teasing me by letting me believe something good is going to happen, and then yanking the rug out from under me at the last minute? Yes, it does feel like that. But I have chosen to trust that He has His reasons even if I don't understand, and that one day it will all be made clear to me why those things needed to happen.

I don't think it's wrong to feel like you hate Him sometimes, as long as you tell Him that. He'll understand. He's big enough to take it when you pound your fists against His chest in rage, and He won't stop loving you.

Theo Book · Dec 1, 2016

Consider life without God. Now who do you blame?

Hmmm!!

Could it be your disappointment is misguided for a reason? SOMEONE wants you to fail.
Wonder why!

Someone trys to interfere with your "unquestioning" faith. I do not think that someone has YOUR best interest at heart.

Job was blessed more than any other man of his time. Then the adversary accuse Job before the throne of God, and said "Of course Job loves you (speaking to God), you've given him every blessing. But if you take away the blessings, he will curse you to your face."

Job's response to some very trying times was "Yea, though He slay me, yet will I trust Him."

We accept the blessings, should we not expect some lesser events to appear in our lives?

I thank my God daily, for not only those blessings I recognize, but also for all the things God protects me from, and all the mistakes in my present walk in flesh.

And I am constantly amazed to find myself among the living every morning as I wake, and contemplate the errors of my attempts to pleas God, when in reality I stray from the focus of my very being.

Do not ever think God is not keeping you alive long enough to come to a realization that He is your benefactor, not your enemy.

And He gives you opportunity to repent, seek forgiveness, and become a beautiful example for others who in their weakness, doubt, just as you once did. Make a memory, not a present question; and go with God in hope, not despair.

Dr Bruce Atkinson · Dec 1, 2016

"Why did this have to happen to me?" How often I have heard this question in some form! I have learned that, in most cases, the "Why me?" is not so much a search for meaning as simply a way of protesting one's troubles. Rarely is the person really ready to accept an answer. What we all want in the midst of suffering is for it to be over. No other answer is good enough at that moment. We were not designed to desire (nor enjoy) pain and trouble. So, of course we pray fervently for deliverance with all the faith that we have ... and often it seems that there is no answer, at least none that we want. We receive silence, or "Wait. Trust Me." We need to understand the divine response (or lack of it) to our pain.

To have an honest and intimate relationship with God—which should be our highest priority—we must be ready to confront God with our true feelings and to ask the hard questions.

"We believe in a God who is mercy and justice, yet we see so much injustice. We believe in a God who is wholeness and salvation, yet we see so much brokenness and suffering. We believe in a God who is love, yet we see so much hatred. These conflicts raise questions. And to ask these questions, not as academic riddles but as a life demand, is to wrestle with God." (D . Postema)

God values us and our relationship with Him above other things. He is quite willing to put up with our protests and complaints and even our unreasonable requests. What bothers our heavenly Father is when we do not seek His advice, when we turn our backs on His love and ignore Him when we are troubled. When we spurn the offered relationship, it hurts. The history of God’s relationship with His people in the Bible is quite clear about this: God would much rather have an active, if up-and-down relationship that is going somewhere.

That is why God did not hold Job's protests against him, but instead God was angry with Job's many advisors— who told Job that his suffering was due to his own sin, and who thought they understood God but did not. God wants our honest feelings. That is why God was willing to argue with the prophets and why He valued their opinions and requests. So don't worry, God will not punish us for feeling what we feel—if we keep the communication lines open and honestly express our feelings to Him (He knows how we really feel anyway!).

God values our perseverance in going after what we want. That is why, as we read in Genesis 32, He wrestled with Jacob and renamed him Israel ("you have striven with God and with man and have prevailed"). The parable of the unjust judge in Luke 18 makes it clear: God wants us to bother Him with our requests and to not give up until we get it. Why? Because these may be the only times that we are real with God, maybe the only times we choose to spend communicating with Him. God wants us to know Him, and that requires time and effort. He wants to strengthen our relationship with Him, and seeking Him with determination will help that happen.

well hey · Dec 1, 2016

thankyou

devin553344 · Dec 1, 2016

I've got trauma too and find myself thinking God hates me, I found it to be a tempter spirit actually. I found that if I prayed to God to help me it went away, but if I kept the feeling it grew like a darkness. Now whenever I get the feeling I just turn to God for help and it goes away. God is in charge of the gifts of the spirit: Love is one of the gifts, which is the opposite of hate in your case and mine.
Also I think of God as never doing anything hateful. So the bad stuff I assign to the devil or the serpent as done against me from evil forces. Then God is not part of it.

arustadb · Dec 1, 2016

Well hey,
Talk to God about the trauma and ask Him to help you work through it. It has helped me to get through my own church related trauma and come back to faith.

Winken · Dec 1, 2016

AAAAAAAAAMEN!! Keep on keepin' on!!!!

paul becke · Dec 1, 2016

It's good that you don't fool yourself that you stopped believing in his existence. Even though I never lose that conviction one iota, I occasionally feel a little bitter and petulant. But then, so did David and the other psalmists, even asking God to punish his (David's) enemies. But the funny thing is, I am actually more certain of God's presence, when I'm 'under the blackjack' than ever. It strikes me in my mind at the very outset that God's giving me a lot more stick and not a lot of carrot, but before long, the surge of faith/confidence in my mind moves to my heart. You might find reading some psalms helps to assuage the pain.

Vicomte13 · Dec 1, 2016

I have never hated God, no. I have really found many Christians to be detestable. I strongly distinguish between God and men, and I make the same distinction when reading the Bible. There are some words in the Bible that come straight from God, that set the picture. And then there's a lot of stuff in the Bible that comes from men and relates men dealing with men.

It is a bad thing to have been abused. I know. God did not abuse you. In fact, God set down a law that forbids anybody from abusing anybody, ever. You were abused by a man who broke God's law. He committed the terrible sin. You were a victim of it. It is his fault.

Now, you may think that it is God's fault too, and to a certain extent it is. God could, after all, intervene and stop it. He does perform miracles, and he could have performed one, or several, to stop the abuse. He didn't, for reasons that are not too hard to understand, but that are not very pleasant to contemplate. So let's not contemplate them.

Do not equate men, including pastors - maybe even ESPECIALLY pastors - with God. Do not equate your church with God. The only thing you can equate with God are fundamental forces of nature - the physics, the fiery power of the Sun. Those are not God either, but they are direct manifestations of the power and creativeness of God, unfiltered by human interlocutors.

It's true, God did not suspend the physics and reach out of the air to stop what happened to you. But it's ALSO true that the Sun rose yesterday, and today, and will rise tomorrow and the day after that, very predictably. And that utter reliability of God's action through nature is directly related to God not reaching out of the air to stop what happened to you. Had what was done to you been worse; had, for example, abuse gone to the point of breaking your spine and leaving you in a wheelchair for life, God may have intervened more forcefully. In truth, maybe he DID intervene to make things be only as bad as they were, and not worse.

You don't know. But you do know the sun will rise, God is constant. That very constancy is why he doesn't stop abusers. You still have your breath, given you by God, and you will heal - that too is a blessing given by God.

So don't hate God. Hate the jerk who abused you. Hate the idea system that caused you to be vulnerable. Do not be trusting of men. But God is reliable. The Sun will rise, you will survive, and you will heal. And the ugly thing will cause you to learn, which will make you a wiser person. Remember: God didn't abuse you, a man did. Hate the man, not the God that has preserved you and keeps you going.

HittitesA-muk · Dec 2, 2016

hi I dont know . The Holy Spirit demands kindness; and probably requires it of everyone so eventually people are kind even if they didnt think Holy Spirit can make them .

Bible Highlighter · Dec 2, 2016

I disagree. We are not commanded by the LORD to hate our enemies but we are commanded to love them, pray for them, and to do good unto them (Matthew 5:44). In fact, we have to realize that this life is but a stage. We brought nothing into this world and we will bring nothing out of it. This life is a test to see if we truly love GOD.

We have to realize that persecution or hard times do come upon the believer's life. The Scriptures says,

"But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now." (Galatians 4:29).

Isaac was persecuted verbally by Ishmael (Genesis 21:9). The same thing happens today. If a person truly walks with GOD and they are allowing His righteousness to flow thru them, then persecution will happen.

"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution"
(2 Timothy 3:12).

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Bible Highlighter · Dec 2, 2016

If our friend here creates a cult awareness group, it's foundation has to be love and not hate. It has to focus on praying for abusive cult members and doing good unto them (When persecuted by them). We can warn about their dark ways and feel righteous anger against the sin. But we should always love the sinner or the person. We have to forgive them. For if we do not forgive, then God will not forgive us. Holding on to hating a person is showing that you have not forgiven them (And that is very dangerous thing to do if you seek to walk with GOD and keep your heart right with Him).

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Bible Highlighter · Dec 2, 2016

On another important point, we should keep in mind that when we build our relationship with GOD or the LORD, there is nothing that is external that should be able to separate us from Him.

35 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
(Romans 8:35-39).

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longwait · Dec 2, 2016

That's so sad. If you hate God who is there left to love?

nathaneal · Dec 2, 2016

There has been many time in which i thought you know what god i am done with you [staff edit], I become so angry and then i would realise, i am not getting angry or hate god but more that i hate the sin and angry at god for allowing people to continue as nomal mean while i am there looking at everybody and see something wrong. i dont know what anyone has been through, but i know what i have and has helped me to be able to empathize with others and through thsi has allowed me to disciple many people.

This is really stupid but i was with my wife and 2 children one is3 and the other 7 months. we were travling nd like always dificult to get up and down the stairs so where do we go to the lift where there are several able bodied individuals who could take there stairs.
what i have started to do is make hints so at ears distance, as my wife is struggling to get in the lift whilst people push past here to get in the lift i say with my 3 year old that we are able to take the stairs.
probly got nothing to do with what is happening in your lives but you must lead by example. People more than anything make me sick but what i have to continue to banng my head against the wall about is that, if i claim to hate my brother/sister than i am not a true believer in christ. we must pray for our enemies and stay in the path that god wabnts us on the more we resist or take a dtour the more bumpy the road will become.

Also i am a very anxious person always putting things in a negatve context and thinking the worst in people and a situation because of the past. so may i close on this verse from the bible be still and no that i am god.

All the best and remeber
love god with all your heart and your all, love your neighbor as you love your self.

Blessings.

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