The Bible bears witness to God's strength, wisdom, and love time and time again. But these are not the only attributes of God. He is glorious, beautiful and majestic God. He is the God of peace and He is our Good Shepherd. Yet there is one aspect of God many Christians often do not like to talk about: His wrath. We do serve a loving, God, but that does not mean God never gets angry with us, just because He loves us.
And God is very justified in His anger. Everyone, even Christians, consistently falls into the traps of sin. But not only does this world forget and ignore the commands of God, but this world, and all who are in it, treats God and sin very trivially. Sin is not trivial to God! John Gill says: "How greatly must the divine Being be incensed by it! In that, for it, he [Adam] has caused death, that is, his wrath to passing the judgment on him, and all his offspring; so that,in consequence of it, all the children of Adam are the children of God's wrath."
Because of sin, we deserve to go to hell, to eternal torment. It is not fair to say that God simply dislikes sin. When we dislike something, we avoid it. God does not try to avoid sin. Instead, He is so incensed about sin that He created an eternal place of permanent torture for it. God hates sin; though He loves us, He abhors the sin we commit. Ultimately, retribution must be made for our actions: either in the death of Jesus or in our own spiritual death in hell.
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