Preaching and Speaking about God’s Wrath

When we bring up the notion of the wrath of God, we meet a range of negative reactions. One can hesitate to speak about it, another can have an aversion to tackle it, yet another can deliberately avoid the topic or treat it even with outright defiance. All of these tendencies can be found in Christianity, and in increasing measure! However, this article will present why and how God's wrath must be presented in the preaching of the Word.

The Morality of God in the Old Testament – Introduction

How God can be considered to be morally good while at the same time he does things in the Old Testament that do not appear to us to be good? Examples are the imprecatory psalms and God’s command to Israel to exterminate every man, woman, and child of the Canaanites (e.g., Deuteronomy 20:12-18). Beale considers in this part of his introduction some proposed solutions to this apparent paradox.