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I understand Schaeffer's point concerning the tomb, but my point is God wants us to be authentic persons. He created us with a wide variety of emotions and anger is one of them. God gets angry. Paul tells us that we can be angry but don't let it become sin. When we are angry with God because we don't understand or won't understand, it is a teaching time and that is appropriate. To blandly accept all things is to appreciate nothing. To be upset with God because we perceive He is not acting in character or as we were lead to believe, as Jeremiah or Ezekiel thought, is not sin, but a high view of God. High in the sense of what the creature can think or expect not what the Creator thinks or plans. Then God lets His friends in on His secrets and "Eureka" takes place. God wants us to honest with Him in our praise and in our complaints so that He can mature our thinking and relationship. We are not perfect yet and He knows that and accommodates that in our sanctification.

To be upset with God because we perceive He is not acting in character or as we were lead to believe, as Jeremiah or Ezekiel thought, is not sin, but a high view of God.

LOL. Is that what God thought when Jeremiah complained? "OH Jeremiah, you have such a high view of me because you whined." Is God just that big grandfatherly guy in the sky who understands when we're being "authentic"? Well let's see what God actually said:

19 This is how God answered me: "Take back those words, and I'll take you back. Then you'll stand tall before me. Use words truly and well. Don't stoop to cheap whining. Then, but only then, you'll speak for me. Let your words change them. Don't change your words to suit them.

Opps! Sure, be authentic and then be prepared to repent.