Is the idea of the “wrath” of God difficult for you to accept? Explain.

What are (a) 1-2 things you learned about God’s wrath today, (b) 1-2 questions you still have about God’s wrath?

 

God’s wrath in the Bible is never the capricious, self-indulgent, irritable, morally ignoble thing that human anger so often is. It is, instead, a right and necessary reaction to objective moral evil.

J.I. Packer

 

Though I used to complain about the indecency of the idea of God’s wrath, I came to think that I would have to rebel against a God who wasn’t wrathful at the sight of the world’s evil. God isn’t wrathful in spite of being love. God is wrathful because God is love.

Miroslav Volf

 

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the Cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the Cross.

Don Carson

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