Gods Wrath

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Benthic wrote: 03 Aug 2019, 14:43 We have seen Gods Love in many a passage in the book. But Gods wrath really paved the way for humankind just as love did. To name a few the flood of Noah and the banishment of Adam and Eve. What were some of the worst instances of God's wrath that the author described in the book?
For the eternal loving God to decide to destroy all His creation He laboured for, except Noah and his family, then you should try and imagine how wicked that generation was. So wicked that you can't imagine the level of wickedness that would be on Earth now, if God hadn't wiped off that generation. See, these are spiritual mysteries that we can't comprehend with our human mind.
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I've always though the Tower of Babel and the dividing of languages was the saddest punishment- how many families must have been separated, or, on the other hand, refused to leave each other and decided to make the commitment to learn how to understand each other again?
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The flood has to be one of the most significant of all God's wrath. The killing of the Egyptians first male children too.
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God's wrath was reflected the most in the Great Flood. However, God was too easy on the covenants and kept forgiving them whenever they showed repentance. I found this to be really interesting.
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MatereF wrote: 06 Aug 2019, 03:49
Chrystal Oaks wrote: 05 Aug 2019, 00:19 For me, it is the flood. God didn't want anything more to do with the new creation called humans and decided to get rid of them. Can you imagine - after the torrential rain stopped, the water peppered with bloated, floating bodies of humans and animals. This is probably why God said that he would no longer let his overwhelming wrath get the best of him again.
I agree with you. It must have been a nasty sight.
I agree! I can't even imagine what that must have been like. So sad and really traumatizing.
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Flood, for sure. But it's very personal. Even as a child, the flood was very impressive to me. I still remember how I imagined it back then.
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I think the great flood was the worst punishment. I don't see the banishment as a real punishment since it is a mixture of "sweat" and "sweet".
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TuyetMai wrote: 05 Aug 2019, 00:53 I also think the Great Flood was the worst punishment of all because it wiped out everything besides the Ark and many lives were destroyed.
I condone. I couldn't imagine the sight where all life forms are washed away.
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Seeing so many comments talking about the flood. I want to diverge from popular opinions and say the 10 plagues in Egypt. People weren't just killed and then nothing. They suffered a lot of pain before having their sons killed.
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God doled out many punishments, usually to one or two people. However, I think he was super angry when he unleashed the flood and wiped out the majority of people. To me, this was most symbolic of God's wrath.
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Chrystal Oaks wrote: 05 Aug 2019, 00:19 For me, it is the flood. God didn't want anything more to do with the new creation called humans and decided to get rid of them. Can you imagine - after the torrential rain stopped, the water peppered with bloated, floating bodies of humans and animals. This is probably why God said that he would no longer let his overwhelming wrath get the best of him again.
Great example. I too felt the same. In other instances, he was at least giving chance to redeem but with the flood, it was like I don't want to do anything with humans. Let them all go away :D
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The flood was a great show of God's wrath, as we are told the whole world was destroyed. I struggle to imagine how evil the world must have been for God to find only one family worth saving. To make matters worse, even animals and plants were destroyed. Gives a whole new meaning to destroying your work and starting afresh. I wish today's generation would realise that actions have consequences.
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It's interesting, because I think of "wrath" as something sudden, akin to "rage". As in, "I'm so angry I'm going to smash up my garden, and damn anything that's in it". In this sense, God's wrath, to my mind, would have been a sudden flood where he wiped out everything and decided to start over. But it wasn't, it was calculating and pre-planned, allowing Noah and his family and animals two-by-two to be saved from this destruction. I think it should be more "God's Revenge" in the flood case, not wrath.
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I'm going to go with the majority here and say the flood was probably the best example of this.
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Yeah, I'm going with The Flood, too. Ya can't get much more wrathy than wiping out the entire Earth populace with the exception of two members per species. That's kind've a one-hit-kill, oofta. It must have been horrifying to witness, so it's no wonder why God holds off on doing it again. I mean, there were thousands of children and babies who drowned in that who hadn't done anything to anyone. It was directed at everyone, regardless of if they deserved it - someone else deserved it, so they got swept up in it, too. To me, that was the biggest act of wrath.
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