… a God without wrath does not plan to do much liberating. Indeed, that God’s anger is kindled when harm is done to the least among us not only gives us hope that earthly injustices don’t have the last word but also insight into God’s compassionate nature.
Deanna Thompson, Deuteronomy (Belief: a Theological Cimmentary on the Bible), 31
This is an excellent point. We need to think about what is necessary when evil asserts itself.
From Quadrilateral Thoughts: The nice thing about history, as Gamaliel once reminded us, is that it doesn’t care who you are, how much power you have, or how loudly you can shout. History, like truth, simply doesn’t care about people’s feelings. The Flood comes, some people are saved, some people drown with “Oops” as their…
Don has a post titles 10 Tough Psalms for Worship Songs that deserves some serious thinking. I relate it to my recent post Psalm 95 and 81: Interrupting Praise with Prophecy?. Do we tend to censor the more challenging material in our worship?
If you’re expecting me to do a rundown on the definitions of all of these terms, then you’ll be disappointed. There’s plenty of writing trying to define the terms. Jeremy Pierce wrote the key post discussing “dominionismism,” titled simply Dominionismists. In it, he compares those who are concerned about dominionism with Birthers and Truthers. On…
I’m a bit behind posting these, but here are the files from the last Perspectives video. Note we will be continuing the discussion this coming week, as I only completed about half of what I had planned. The key theme text will be Jeremiah 31:31-34. Remember that a good deal of the material I’m covering…
I will now do on my blog what I did last night for my Tuesday night group. Contradict my previous post. Here’s the idea in a Monty Python sketch: What I did was quote a scholar whom I respect, and in fact who has been my companion through much of my study of the book…
Continuing … !
It’s interesting to contrast modern culture’s resistance to the idea of God as wrathful with the modern tendency to react with rage about perceived injustice. If it’s valid to be extremely angry with what you see as injustice, how can it be invalid for God (who perceives injustice far more accurately than we ever can) to be just as angry?