God’s love and God’s wrath
Wednesday, 09 April, 2003
Even more excerpts from my reading:
Wrath, like love, includes emotion as a necessary component. Here again, if impassibility is defined in terms of the complete absence of all ‘passions’, not only will you fly in the face of the biblical evidence, but you tumble into fresh errors that touch the very holiness of God. The reason is that in itself, wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath—but there will always be love in God. Where God in his holiness confronts his image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God he claims to be, and his holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.
D.A. Carson, The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God: “God's love and God's wrath”, Intervarsity Press, 2000.
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