Beyond an Angry God Quotes

“... the way we perceive God affects everything else in our lives.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“If you have seen your God through the lens of legalistic religion, you most likely have believed that God was warning them [Adam and Eve] that He would punsih them if they ate from the tree. Nothing could be further from the heart or intent of God. He wouldn't kill them - sin would kill them. God wasn't warning them about what He would do but about what sin would do to them.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“When people form their opinion about God from what they hear from contemporary legalistic religion, it's no wonder they conclude that God is a cranky, old, bookkeeping, judgmental, demanding deity who is more interested in people's behavior than anything else. It would be easy to see how a god like that would be angry much of the time.
Sadly, people who hold that view of God impose it on the Bible and interpret the Bible to present a God like that. Nothing could be further from the truth. I'm not saying that our God is a milquetoast, a mild-mannered god who can be managed. He's no kitten, that for sure.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“The heart of our Creator is to bless you. Dead religion presents a freakish caricature, a pseudo-god who is reluctant to bless his creatures unless they toe the line of impeccable moral behavior and tireless service to him. But the authentic God of the Bible blessed Adam and Eve immediately [Genesis 1:27-28] - before they worshipped, before they served, before they prayed, before they displayed any kind of action at all. The first divine act toward humanity tells us so very much about Him.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“When we focus exclusively on the love of God, when we see love as the totality of His being, are we leaving out something? To say yes is to insult Divine Agape. Love is His fundamental makeup. Everything that can be known of Him must be seen through the lens of agape, or we end up presenting a god with multiple personality. Jesus proved that God is pure love by coming into the world.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“You have been set in the place of a child who is loved and accepted by the Father just as surely as Jesus Himself knows that love and acceptance. Your palce is the triune circle dance is as safe and secure as the place of Jesus for the staggering reason that you are in Him.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“The Father, Son, and Spirit already knew and enjoyed a perfect relationship, so why else would He purpose to create a species with which He might share this love? What could possibly motivate Him to want to expand the circle? Love - that is the only possible reason. Our God is a selfless, generous, other-centered, giving God. He didn't need you. He wanted you!”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“Understanding the Trinity is more important than many Christians realize. Why does it matter that He is triune? It matters because as three in one, our God is first and foremost relational. In the eternal realm, the Father, Son, and Spirit have always existed and forever will exist in a circle of intimate love.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“Grace is the expression of Love Himself, and since He is infinite, it seems reasonable to assume that we will spend time and eternity discovering more and more about the vastness of the subject.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“So we put ourselves in a dangerous place when we formulate concrete opinions about who God is without filtering our thoughts through Jesus.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“Augustine, one of the Church Fathers, also commented on the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament when he said, “In the Old Testament the New Testament is concealed; in the New Testament the Old Testament is revealed.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“C.S. Lewis was right when he said, “Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“When somebody’s religious identity is being challenged, things are bound to turn nasty quickly.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“The Incarnation of God in Jesus is the greatest moment that has ever occurred in time or eternity.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“When we are facing the storms of life, we need to understand the importance of watching Jesus Christ. He inspires our faith, but even more, our faith originates from Him. He is our Faith. So then, faith isn’t something we have to work up from within ourselves. Instead, it is Someone who lives within us who wants to work out every detail of life’s journey. As we look at Him as our source of faith, we find a sense of that faith rising up within us.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“It becomes a matter of faith in faith.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You

“The challenge to have more faith about a specific outcome is often nothing more than a religious promotion for positive thinking.”
― Steve McVey, Beyond an Angry God: You Can’t Imagine How Much He Loves You