Jealousy falls under the tenth commandment - do not covet. Jealousy is the noun that relates to the state of being jealous: “feeling resentment against someone because of that person's rivalry, success, or advantages; inclined to or troubled by suspicions or fears of rivalry, unfaithfulness.”
Is God a jealous God?
"Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. Exodus 34:14.
In Exodus 20:5, when God commands that His people worship no other gods, He acknowledges it is because “I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God". So he's pretty much admitting it.
Scholars might say, God isn't so much jealous, he's just zealous ... hmm.
(The old "lost in the translation from the Hebrew/Greek/whatever" explanation).
I think God's jealous and therefore, on balance, he's a sinner. And a pretty big cosmic one.
He's a Boogie Man.
That explains a lot.
It's not a firm base on which to build a religion either.
Nobody cares anyway.
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