WHAT GOD DOES NOT DO

One of the biggest problems we have understanding how God relates to sinners is our penchant for attributing our own attitudes and weaknesses onto our perceived picture of God. Many things that we believe about God are really things that we want to justify in ourselves and so we end up trying to re-make God into our image. Here are some verses that tell us some things that humans tend to do but God does not do.

(2 Chronicles 28:3) Moreover, he burned incense in the valley of Ben-hinnom and burned his sons in fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had driven out before the sons of Israel. (NAS95)

(Jeremiah 19:5) And have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, a thing which I never commanded or spoke of, nor did it ever enter My mind. (NAS95)

(Ezekiel 33:11) "Say to them, 'As I live!' declares the Lord GOD, 'I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil ways! Why then will you die, O house of Israel?'" (NAS95)

(Malachi 3:6) "For I, the LORD, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. (NAS95)

(1 Peter 2:23) And while being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously. (NAS95)

(James 1:20) For the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God. (NAS95)