Replies

Individuals that promote the "wrath of God" are only attempting to control through fear. God does not control through fear; He is a loving God that allows each of us to control ourselves through our own God instilled conscience.

Ok, but what of THESE directions from Paul?

1 Timothy 5:20
Those who sin are to be rebuked publicly, so that the others may take warning.

2 Timothy 3:16-17
16. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
17. so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 4:2
Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction.

Titus 1:13-14
13. This testimony is true. Therefore, rebuke them sharply, so that they will be sound in the faith
14. and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of those who reject the truth.

Titus 2:15
These, then, are the things you should teach. Encourage and rebuke with all authority. Do not let anyone despise you.

As well as the words of Jesus...

Revelation 3:19
Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent.

God does not control through fear....

Oh? What would you call this??

Jonah 3

1. Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a second time:
2. "Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you."
3. Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to Nineveh. Now Nineveh was a very important city--a visit required three days.
4. On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned."
5. The Ninevites believed God. They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
6. When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.
7. Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
8. But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
9. Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish."
10. When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and did not bring upon them the destruction he had threatened.

Quoting from the Bible; a book written by mortal man, with faults,
and prejudices, means nothing to a person that is agnostic.

I believe Christ taught to love man for all ways;
That God is a loving God that should never bring fear to anyone's heart;
That God is an all-forgiving God that serves all man and beast;
That there is only one God, not many;
He is the same God for all, serving all man, regardless of religion;
That our God does not punish, but only shows the way;
Those that do not follow -ever- may never reach the end, perhaps
living life over and over, in all it's hell that it can become for them.

To teach to fear God, is to teach hatred. That is obvious to me;
I wish that was obvious to all.

God loves you as He does me, Have a great Sunday.