Hi, this is John a Bible Project and this is our last episode on the anger of God.

Today we're going to look at how the Apostle Paul talks about God's anger in the Book of

Romans.

We've done these past six episodes on this one attribute of God because for many of us

God's anger can be scary and confusing.

For others we've actually flattened out God's anger to be something simpler than what

it actually is.

This is kind of the basic summary of Christian belief when I was first introduced to it.

In my early 20s is, you're a human, you have a conscience between right and wrong, you've

done wrong.

Sin.

God is holy.

Therefore he is angry at you for your sin and he's going to kill you.

It's his justice and his holiness, he has to kill you.

Jesus died in your place instead and so you can be forgiven and have life instead of death.

So what I'm saying is that abstraction doesn't really do justice to all of the elements in

that summary, especially this idea of God's anger and death.

God's anger is God's handing people over to a process that's self-chosen, that results

in death, but it's very much what I want.

And so the Apostle Paul opens his letter to the Romans saying, quote, the wrath of God

is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people.

So then that raises the question, well, how is the wrath of God being revealed?

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