Attitudes, negative to God

Scripture identifies a range of negative attitudes towards God, which believers are encouraged to avoid.

Rejection

Isaiah 53:3 See also Leviticus 26:15–16; 1 Samuel 8:7; Ezekiel 5:6, Ezekiel 20:15–16; John 1:11

He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Lack of faith

Mark 4:40 parallels Matthew 8:26, Luke 8:25 See also Matthew 13:58 parallel Mark 6:6

“Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”

Pride

Deuteronomy 8:14 See also Leviticus 26:19; Luke 1:51; James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5; Proverbs 3:34

then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Stubbornness

Jeremiah 5:23 See also Psalm 78:8; Isaiah 48:4; Mark 3:5, Mark 16:14; Romans 2:5

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.

Rebellion

Psalm 78:40 See also Deuteronomy 1:26; Isaiah 1:2; Jeremiah 2:29; Ezekiel 2:3; Hosea 7:13; Titus 1:10; Hebrews 3:16

How often they disobeyed Him in the wilderness and grieved Him in the desert!

Hostility

Romans 8:7 See also Leviticus 26:21, Leviticus 26:23–24, Leviticus 26:27–28; Hosea 9:7

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.