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To: Forest Keeper; blue-duncan; Dr. Eckleburg
I don't think anger is necessarily a bad thing at all...

FK, if everything is developing along God's plan, if God's will cannot be resisted, there is no reason for God's anger, and you know that.

9,850 posted on 02/09/2007 12:05:27 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; blue-duncan; Dr. Eckleburg; Blogger
FK, if everything is developing along God's plan, if God's will cannot be resisted, there is no reason for God's anger, and you know that.

I have to disagree. It sounds to me like you are bringing together anger and surprise. That happens with us all the time, but as I said in the prior post, of course that never happens with God. Are you saying that God never had anger, or that He was surprised and did have anger?

Think of the most dramatic example. What do you think God's reaction was to watching Jesus die on the cross? Was it sadness or grief or anger, as those concepts are described to us in the Bible? Was it surprise? Was it indifference? I'm not equating God's "emotions" to our human emotions, but the Bible says what it says, and there has to be a reason for so many scriptures to use those terms in describing God. His plan is the ultimate good. If that plan can include such things as the death of His Son, then it shouldn't be surprising that other parts of His plan also caused anger.

10,371 posted on 02/14/2007 3:13:54 PM PST by Forest Keeper
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