• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    The main idea is that books like Bible and Quran were sent to humanity so they are made for humans of the time.

    The “anger” isn’t supposed to be a literal anger, just how humans identify what happened.

    For example most verses about wrath follow with curse or punishment etc, so maybe “wrath” is just what humans call it when God curses or punishes people; and it’s not a literal feeling of anger.

    There was a similar debate with how some verses say God heard/saw “humans were doing [insert thing]…” etc in the books.

    Less relevant info.

    Also in the case of Islam for example, different branches and even sects have different popular interpretations.

    I know one Sufi theologist saying “All creatures were made to reflect God’s light” so they might call it “What our own emotions were modeled after, and are distorted versions of?”

    Then there is Ahl al-Ra’y (Mainly followers of Maturidism today) who see Hadith as “uncredible” so they usually have slightly different views on most stuff. But I am not religious enough to learn theology that far.