Aside from the fact that this is an example of that penal substitution view rearing it's head, for in this view, God hates sin, and is angry at sinners, and so must kill His Son as a way to appease His own
wrath against sin (which doesn't make much biblical or theological sense), the real reason I was shocked to read this statement is because it is the exact opposite of what Paul actually says in Romans 8:32!
Even the humbling of sinners by the revelation of God's judgment and
wrath against sin has as its purpose the religious awakening of sinners that they might be drawn toward the self - giving goodness of God revealed in Jesus Christ.
Furthermore, people say that God had to pour out
His wrath against sin upon somebody (either us or Jesus) in order to satisfy his justice.
Not exact matches
The Bible is full of references to his «
wrath» towards those who
sin against him.
Almighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, maker of all things, judge of all men: We acknowledge and bewail our manifold
sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed,
against thy divine Majesty, provoking most justly thy
wrath and indignation
against us.
Men wondered if this was not the divine
wrath poured out
against New England's
sins.
Kaiser understands God's
wrath as an act of love
against sin which hurts those He loves.
Even a hurtful thought
against another person is a
sin in the eyes of God, and all
sin is
sin and deserves God's
wrath and judgment.
Because I have
sinned against him, I will bear the LORD's
wrath, until he pleads my case and establishes my right.
Worse yet, because of
sin, God's
wrath burns
against us, and He wants to send us all to hell (Ephesians 2:1 - 3).
And yet there are vast numbers of Christians who believe that God commands people to slaughter others, that God drowned people in a flood, and that God is the one who killed His own Son on the cross to appease His own
wrath and anger
against human
sin.
My thought is as pure as that of anyone, and the thought of the man who is able to think such things will surely become pure — and if this be not so, he may expect the dreadful; for he who once has evoked these images can not be rid of them again, and if he
sins against them, they avenge themselves with quiet
wrath, more terrible than the vociferousness of ten ferocious reviewers.
He supposedly created you and knows what you're going to do, including adam and eve who he knew would eat the apple of
sin, then condemns you with that
sin, then forces you to beg him to save you from his
wrath against you from that
sin.