Gods Wrath

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Gods Wrath

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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
I agree with you. It must have been a nasty sight.
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I think the Great Flood was the worst event understood as God's wrath. However, it was followed by the Covenant.
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God's wrath is clearly portrayed by the flood.God was done with a sinful generation and wanted fresh and new beggings.
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The flood is, perhaps, the ultimate showcasing of His wrath because it wasn't directed at a single individual or tribe but at the entirety of humanity.
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I think the flood was the worst. Not only were humans judged, but animals and all life. Only the selected were allowed to live.
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Like many others stated previously, I also believe it was the flood. Instead of punishing a small subset, every living thing was affected.
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I agree 100%, it's the flood. Not just because of its scope, which basically was the greatest genocide known to man, but because many innocent people died. Plus, and this is just my twisted imagination taking things too far, drowning has got to be one of the worst possible ways to go.
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How about Sodom and Gomorrah? And Lot's wife being turned to a pillar of salt? I had a professor of Biblical Archaology in college tell me that this story was consistent with a nuclear bomb. Something to think about.
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Yup! The flood was a display of pure wrath. The banishment from the garden was also mixed with pain that He had lost a close friend - maybe a sense of betrayal? Does that come through in the book? I haven't read it - I am commenting taking the Biblical story as a basis.
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I struggle with God's acts of wrath that I cannot understand. The flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, those are circumstances where God's mercy had been shown many, many times and then the father hit the point where tough love needed to be shown. I find moments like when the palbearer of the ark of the covennant reached out to save it from falling and he died. Some could say that his faih was not strong enough or he was prideful because he felt he could save God's ark and not God. I don't know. I just think it was a harsh move.
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knowing that there is a God who is able to execute any punishment with absolute power and no will is able to cope with it, for me, is the most frightening aspect of the story.
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Renu G wrote: 06 Aug 2019, 04:16 I think the Great Flood was the worst event understood as God's wrath. However, it was followed by the Covenant.
Yes, but maybe we as humans need to know that God can, and will, get angry so we should be careful not to displease him. That said, so many people nowadays do not seem to care about their maker. 😕
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