Wrath of God
Are you still reading? I hope so. There is so much false, inaccurate, or partial information regarding the wrath of God. How do you view the wrath of God? James Bryan Smith in Hidden in Christ offers a helpful explanation of this topic. Here are several quotes from his devotional: "We have two phrases difficult to reconcile: the love of God and the wrath of God. Unless we find a way to understand how both can be true of God, we end up with a Jekyll and Hyde kind of God. . .And yet I do not believe that God's wrath is the same as human anger. We get angry when we don't get our way, and we scowl and stew and sometimes take it out on someone or something. That is not the kind of anger that God expresses." "God set up an order, a good order, and if we rebel from that order, we suffer. That is what the wrath of God is. Wrath is not God's disposition toward us; wrath is God's arrangement regarding sin." "God is for us--that is why he hates...