Posted on 03/22/2015 8:12:43 AM PDT by RnMomof7
The God of the old Testament would have then torched the town and left no survivors.
“The God of the New Testament is not the angry, vindictive God of the Old Testament. The difference is night and day, and I for one am grateful for it.”
BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You obviously need to read the Old Testament! You also might want to read the New:
“12 When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood, 13 and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree sheds its winter fruit when shaken by a gale. 14 The sky vanished like a scroll that is being rolled up, and every mountain and island was removed from its place. 15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, 16 calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind. 16 The number of mounted troops was twice ten thousand times ten thousand; I heard their number. 17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions’ heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths. 18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.
20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk, 21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.”
I don’t see anger in the list of the fruit of the Spirit.
I was reading some Tozer and his comment about God’s anger was something to the effect of, that’s what we call it when He has finally decided to bring judgment on people for their sin.
It’s not that God is an angey God but that’s the best word to describe what being under His judgment is.
God is patient, not dealing with us according to our sins or repaying us according to our iniquities.
Yes, but that was towards people looking to skim a profit off worship and keeping people from God.
Jesus was never angry with the people caught in their sin. His treatment of the prostitutes and tax collectors showed that. To tell people like that that God is angry with them is a grave disservice.
Jesus wrath was more directed towards religious hypocrisy.
God’s wrath is toward SIN. Unrepented sin. There are not “OK sins” and “not OK sins”. The same was true in the Old Testament.
There is not one God of the OT and a different one in the New. One God, same attitude towards sin.
Look at John 6. He had little patience for those who were not ever going to repent.
The great need of the modern world is to realize a fundamental truth: God does not love us AS we are. He loves us where we are, but not AS we are. We all must start by repenting - agreeing with Him that we are doing evil and deserve punishment.
God is patient. He doesn’t punish quickly or without ample cause. But modern man seems to think God will not punish us at all. In fact, as CS Lewis pointed out, modern man wants to know if God is good enough to deserve us. We want to judge God. We’re going to be in for a big surprise...
Telling people that God is angry with them does nothing to lead people to Christ.
It most effectively pushes them into a religious system of works in a futile attempt to appease an angry God.
Yes, Jesus had little patience for those who refuse to repent, but the fact that Jesus came here to earth and lived here for thrity three years, and still reached out to those who rejected Him, those we consider were the ones He was angry with, shows the depth of His love and mercy, which far outweighs His anger with them.
He still engaged with them, trying to reach them.
Yes, the modern world does not even seem to be aware of the fact that they are going to be judged some day.
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