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To: Forest Keeper
Dawg on the wrath of God:

If you (being, for the sake of argument, a hetero-male-human type personnel) treat women like pleasure machines, one day you will wake up surrounded by machines, and long for human company. (I don't know about you all, but I look on Hugh Hefner and weep in grief and horror -- I'm serious.)

If you think money is the only important thing one day you will wake up surrounded by assets and commodities you own, when what humans need and long for is to be owned by the one who made us.

If you envy your brethren, one day everyone less well off than you will be a threat, and everyone more successful than you will be an insult, when what we all long for is friends for whose losses we can grieve and in whose joys we can rejoice.

And so on. The wrath of God is not in God as such, but in the essence of not loving God. The wrath of God is merely the manifestation of what our sins really are.

The Dawg is silent.

8,127 posted on 01/30/2007 6:34:03 PM PST by Mad Dawg ("It's our humility which makes us great." -- Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers)
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To: Mad Dawg
The wrath of God is not in God as such, but in the essence of not loving God. The wrath of God is merely the manifestation of what our sins really are.

I have sympathy for the view that sin is the absence of God, but I'm not sure I'm following you here. How do you explain all the specific physical actions God has taken in the Bible that we associate with His wrath, such as the flood, etc.?

8,788 posted on 02/03/2007 10:18:37 AM PST by Forest Keeper
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