Jealous

(Exo 20:5 KJV)  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

(Proverbs 9 also read)

While meditating on the attributes of God, the idea of God being jealous came to mind.  You see that here first and several other places.  The idea is that God demands being our only God.  He is not content sitting down with competition.  You worship him only.

Then I thought about this verse,

1 Corinthians 13:4 (NASB95) Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

I started thinking about possible contradictions in scripture.  How can something be OK for God and yet not for His creatures?  It is a legitimate question.  Then I thought about something else that would go along the same lines where we are told not to judge in Matthew seven, and yet we know that God will judge the world.

So?  Sin is the corruption something that is righteous or neutral in itself.  When we take on attributes which are reserved for God and His holiness and purity, we do nothing but corrupted and drag it down.  We are not God.  Some things He can do perfectly we cannot even touch without destroying.