Is Anger "Inherently Evil" according to the Bible?

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Is Anger Inherently Evil?

  • Yes, Anger is always bad.

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • No, Anger can be good.

    Votes: 13 92.9%

  • Total voters
    14
Thats a different spot in the bible.

Acknowledged in a previous post, that is the one and only spot he was said to be angry,
in a unique usage of the word coupled with grief. Mans anger is not said to be righteous.
Jesus is God
Still says anger. Can’t get around that. You are also making a universal statement on man, by saying man’s anger isn’t righteous, but man’s anger can be righteous.
 
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Paul says be ye angry and sin not (Eph. 4:26). If anger was a sin, then Paul sinned by saying be ye angry and sin not. Anger is not a sin.
No thats not what hes saying lololol

Hes not saying GO BE ANGRY lolol

hes saying you will get angry, and that its bad.

better to not be angry at all.
 
Still says anger. Can’t get around that. You are also making a universal statement on man, by saying man’s anger isn’t righteous, but man’s anger can be righteous.
that wasnt the point

the point you replied to was that that was when he turned the tables. which it wasnt.
 
Still says anger. Can’t get around that. You are also making a universal statement on man, by saying man’s anger isn’t righteous, but man’s anger can be righteous.
God is not Man. that is pantheistic to think he is.

the bible says mans anger is not righteous and does not serve God.
 
No thats not what hes saying lololol

Hes not saying GO BE ANGRY lolol

hes saying you will get angry, and that its bad.

better to not be angry at all.
I’m not saying Paul said to be angry. I’m saying if what you are saying is true, then Paul sinned by essentially saying you can be angry, as in it’s not wrong to get angry, just not sin in anger.
 
God is not Man. that is pantheistic to think he is.

the bible says mans anger is not righteous and does not serve God.
Jesus was both man and God (Col. 2:9). Read Romans 8:3

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
 
It never says Jesus is angry in the KJV except one time which is a unique usage of the word talking about him having grief...


Ummm, haven't you read Genesis?
Jesus goes to Abraham, sends His angels to exfiltrate Lot's family before He does the following to the cities of the plain.

24Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.
Chapter 19
 
@RandomFollowerofJesus Paul didn’t say to be angry as in go be angry as a lifestyle. Paul is saying when you are being angry, sin not. He separates the emotion of anger from sin, which is what you are not doing. You are saying do not be angry because it’s sin, but Paul makes a distinction. That you can be angry and it not be wrong, which is why he says when you’re angry, to be angry, yet sin not.
 
My dear friend’s words of advice comes in to play here. Thank you, @2ndTimeIsTheCharm for constantly being a reminder to me through your wisdom of post, which is this “Don't let them bog your message down because then it gets muddy so that other readers will lose track of your points. That's what they want. How I deal with it is I just post a few messages - however much God wants me to write and what He wants me to write and then leave it there because God will direct the right people to your post so that they will in turn be encouraged, refreshed and edified.”

I know you would not want me to continue arguing with a contentious person, so I will not.
 
Wrath is sin, not anger. Anger (ὀργή orge) below means wrath, as it is used in Revelation for the wrath of God

All bitterness, and rage, and anger, and roaring, and blasphemy take away from you with all evil! Ephesians 4:31
That’s gotta be talking about a different kind of anger, otherwise Paul would be contradicting himself in that very letter in v26. Just like there’s a different kinds of jealousy. Godly jealousy (2 Cor. 11:2), and jealousy/envy that is ungodly (Rom. 1:29).
 
That’s gotta be talking about a different kind of anger, otherwise Paul would be contradicting himself in that very letter in v26. Just like there’s a different kinds of jealousy. Godly jealousy (2 Cor. 11:2), and jealousy/envy that is ungodly (Rom. 1:29).

Verse 26 is actually a different word derived from orge. Orge appears to mean anger that is expressed in violence and revenge. So if you get provoked or enraged, don't sin by acting on it, ie, wrath

G3710 ὀργίζω orgizo (or-ǰiy'-zō) v.
1. to provoke or enrage.
2. (passively) become exasperated.
 
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Verse 26 is actually a different word derived from orge. Orge appears to mean anger that is expressed in violence and revenge. So if you get provoked or enraged, don't sin by acting on it, ie, wrath

G3710 ὀργίζω orgizo (or-ǰiy'-zō) v.
1. to provoke or enrage.
2. (passively) become exasperated.
That’s kind of how I understood it. An anger that causes one to sin, we are to control that.