does anyone else feel angry at God sometimes?

[hope4us]

I believe that God is real, and I use to pray everyday. whenever i talk to my mom about how im always anxious and stressed out, she always reccomends that i pray to God an have a close personal relationship with him. but lately i've been finding that its hard to pray sometimes. I've been angry with God because horrible things have happened to me. and since I believe that he loves me and cares about me, than I guess I expected him to not allow certain things to happen to me. I could never let these things happen to anyone I care about, if i had the power to stop something bad from happening to them, than i would do everything i could possibly do to prevent them from getting hurt. Since God is God than he can do anything he wants to do. So i get angry when i think about him watching me go through all this dumb crazy shit, when all he had to do was say "stop" and it would have stopped. I don't know how to understand this, how to i stop getting angry at him?

 

[Teamwork]

I never thought I was angry at God. But one day there was a worship song on and it was about God loving us or something. anyway I just couldn’t sing along or believe along. I was like, nope, God does not protect. I talked to another Christian, trained to counsel people like me. The abused, traumatized believers. We do tend to look at God and get right confused, because it really is confusing. I think the counsellor that I talked to helped a lot. I was able to see things differently. I don’t really know what she said as I was pretty upset that night. But it was basically we all suffer, including Christ. When Christ went to the cross he too asked why have you forsaken me? Which in a nut shell is also our question. She went along the lines of, sin is sin, people chose to sin towards one another and people get hurt. But what we do with it or get help with or surrender it is through faith in knowing and understanding Christ died for all the sin, took our suffering on the cross, past present and future and in that cross bearing is where he took it on, knowing what this world is like. It’s still difficult to write this. It’s like i don’t really have it reconciled, but I do have better understanding. I don’t know if this will help you much. I think as I get older, grow closer to God, the more I learn. I kinda don’t pray as much as I used to. I got a little downtrodden along the way, but even in that, if anyone understands me and knows me it would God. I trust psalm 139 for that. Even David in that psalm was angry, but he was not angry with God, he actually prayed that God would kill his enemies for him. David ahad it right, he went to God requesting murder, for the people seeking to harm him. That’s really interesting to me because David is known as a man after God’s heart.

 

[Ronin]

Imo the useful angle for strong feelings about someone immaterial, like God?

Isn't in faith Do more This and don't do That approaches.
But in looking at my feelings.

Ditto, someone hurt me or mine very really with faith as an excuse? I'm not looking at the deities angle. I need to zoom in on the hurt brought.

Because these pieces, I can do something about. The rest is speculation.

 

[LuckiLee]

My guy is Catholic and told me this....

When he was in the middle of combat he stopped and looked around at all the death and destruction and he realized God wasn't there. Satan was.

If we believe in God we also have to believe in the devil.

 

[Tinyflame]

I think it's ok to be angry at God, it means it's a relationship and you have high expectations (of God's ability).

I agree with @LuckiLee 's H though.

Trust comes from knowing you have each other's back, wanting the best for each other; commitment means you want even more for the other. Applying it to God, I sometimes think remember there is no one kinder, or more loving. So in the really bad times, thus necessitates the trust.

 

[Vero]

I struggle with this, being angry at God for not coming through for me when I was going through hard moments.
I came to the conclusion that I could choose to live my life being angry and bitter towards God or believe that He loves me and cares about me despite my life circumstances.
I still haven't made a choice...

 

[AnnieMae]

I feel this way all the time. I was raised to believe in God, but I believe he exists for others except for me. Makes me cry. ?

 

[Tinyflame]

Yes I understand feeling well off the radar @AnnieMae . :hug:

 

[Friday]

I’ve never really had high expectations on the Christian God. Anyone who would allow their own son to be tortured to death? Wipes whole cities off the map? Floods the world? Clearly isn’t concerned with individual outcomes, and has wildly different priorities than I do. Maybe best typified by the idea that it’s “better” to give your own children to an angry mob to be raped, than to disturb a strangers meal?

Nope. The Christian God & I have some very fundamental differences of opinion.

I’ve also never really understood the NewTestament tendency of attempting to singularise/divide Y into a single aspect. There are no Fates, no Furies, no Muses, no gods of War or Hearth & Home, no protectors of children, or the Hunt, Crops, Seasons... none of the hundreds of aspects to seek out or pray to or devote one’s self -or this moment in time- to. The ChristianGod is supposed to contain ALL of these aspects, every facet, in one visage. But some people seem to think they can pick and choose only a single aspect -Love- and ignore all the rest? I don’t grok. Love without fear, or sorrow, or jealousy, or pain? Not even Aphrodite & Juno managed that, in romantic and devoted love. A mother’s wrath, and the willingness to burn the world, came part and parcel with loving her children; just one example of the complexity, there. To step sideways for a moment... Athena, lover of wisdom? Was also a warrior, because with knowledge came the need to act / to do something about what she learned. Even gods who were devoted to a single facet -love, or any other- were fully formed multidimensional creatures, encompassing the full depth and range of their chosen focus. But the Christian God is supposed to contain every facet in existence, yet remain 2 dimensional? And moreover, be pinholed into only the happy moments of love, none of the harder ones? That makes no sense to me, unless anyone who believes that, has never actually read any of his books. A loving god? Perhaps. But also a vengeful god. And every other thing, god.

My best understanding of Y, is that one is supposed to get angry. To fight to make their life as best they can for themselves and theirs. Which is the cost of agency; accountability. Our lives are what we make of them. What we do when the hurricanes, cancer, friends, enemies, armies, good fortune, bad fortune, et al, come into them. We don’t choose our troubles or our triumphs, we choose how we respond to them. See something we don’t like? Step up and change it. Or blame others. Or sit on the sidelines. Or whatever.

 

[Mach123]

So funny how these threads mirror here and the other place I hang around. How could God have allowed my CSA? Quasimodo asked a similar question, I remember it struck me I was so young. "Why can't I be made of stone like these."

One of these days I'll learn to use the quotes but "Clearly isn't concerned with individual outcomes", is a hard one to reconcile with "every sparrow that falleth", and "the hairs on our head are numbered."

 

[Ronin]

Is a hard one to reconcile with "every sparrow that falleth", and "the hairs on our head are numbered."

Rhetoric & politics. ;)
Like a dictator would *say* he is a happy genocidaire... for the press & flock of new followers. That love talk sells better.

Not that hard to reconcile.

 

[talon]

I believe that God is real, and I use to pray everyday. whenever i talk to my mom about how im always anxious and stressed out, she always reccomends that i pray to God an have a close personal relationship with him. but lately i've been finding that its hard to pray sometimes. I've been angry with God because horrible things have happened to me. and since I believe that he loves me and cares about me, than I guess I expected him to not allow certain things to happen to me. I could never let these things happen to anyone I care about, if i had the power to stop something bad from happening to them, than i would do everything i could possibly do to prevent them from getting hurt. Since God is God than he can do anything he wants to do. So i get angry when i think about him watching me go through all this dumb crazy shit, when all he had to do was say "stop" and it would have stopped. I don't know how to understand this, how to i stop getting angry at him?

Your faith is tested as was Paul's when he denied knowing Jesus because he was afraid of the consequences. People with horrendous illnesses are quite understandably tested in their faith which is understandable. As a child i was told by a nurse in front of my father that my mother was not coming home and was going to die . I ran up stairs and prayed and a non vocal voice told me she was coming home and my fear lifted and mam did survive and did come home. The power of prayer works but science cannot explain it . In the west God is no longer fashionable and science has replaced our connection with mother earth as a consequence mother earth as the Bible predicted is dying .As an adult it is much harder to sustain a faith given our awareness of so many bad things
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