The love of God?

A few days ago I watched a rather uncomfortable, oppressive movie that narrated the tale of a woman and her abusive spouse. The actors where rather good, which made the movie so difficult to enjoy. Even more frightening, though, were some of the things the man said:

  • If you leave me, I will hurt you!
  • You are not worthy of my love.
  • I know what you think.
  • I’m the best thing that ever happened to you!
  • You are nothing without me.
  • Love me, or I’ll kill you!
  • I love you more than anyone else ever could, and that’s how you repay me?
  • You’ll never be happy with anyone else!
  • If you want to leave me, you are insane!

The truly alarming thing about this? Replace ‘I’ with ‘God’.

Do you still think your ‘relationship with god’ is healthy?