There are some today who\u2019d like to burn a wrath path through the Christian Church \u2014 those who believe in it can move to the right and those who don\u2019t can move to the left as the path winds and wends its way. The question I want to ask in this series is multi-faceted and includes at least these sorts of questions:
\nIs the wrath of God as found in the Bible something that flows from God\u2019s character or something that is simply the impersonal working out of consequences in history?
\nDoes it flow from God\u2019s love (God\u2019s jealous love) or from God\u2019s holiness?
\nIs wrath in the Bible to be connected to:
\n1. Evangelism? (evangelistic wrath)
\n2. History? (historical wrath as in judgments on the plane of history)
\n3. Eternal? (eternal, ontological wrath against sin)
\nIs the God of the Old Testament a God of wrath and the God of Jesus and the New Testament less of a God of wrath?
\nDo we examine \u201cwrath\u201d in its rhetorical function? That is, is it a way of motivating someone to do repent? Or is it a way of marking a boundary between God\u2019s people and those who are not God\u2019s people?
\nDo we examine \u201cwrath\u201d in its historical setting? Is it a way of speaking about what God has done in history and will do in history?
\nWhy are some groups so obsessed with wrath and others so nervous about wrath?
\nWhy are some groups so attracted to an evangelism that finds its potency and its bottom-line in hell\/wrath?
\nDid Jesus or Paul evangelize with the threat of wrath?
\nWell, these are some questions. Do you have others about the biblical idea of wrath?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are some today who\u2019d like to burn a wrath path through the Christian Church \u2014 those who believe in it can move to the right and those who don\u2019t can move to the left as the path winds and wends its way. The question I want to ask in this series is multi-faceted and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"yoast_head":"\n