The Bible is full of about 20 major themes and another 50 to 70 smaller themes.

Themes you really must grasp in order to make sense of the whole Bible and we're walking

through the biggies on this podcast and when it comes to explaining how each theme develops

from Genesis Revelation, I don't know of anyone who does it better than Dr. Don Carson.

On select Fridays like today, we release a little longer episode than normal where we

call up Dr. Carson.

He takes up one theme and explains it and six times we've covered one of the major themes

of the Bible with him and you can find all of those episodes just search for his last

name, Carson, in the APJ app.

He joins us again today over the phone, Fruit of Our Partnership with our friends at the

Gospel Coalition, Carson is the co-founder and president of the Gospel Coalition and also

the editor of the NIV Zunderman Study Bible which is sort of the study Bible version of

what we're doing in these podcasts.

There is one theme and if you get it wrong, it will make an utter mess of the entire

Bible and it's the theme of God's wrath on sin.

Sin is the theme we looked at last time with him in episode 858, but today we turn and

look at what God's wrath is and what it isn't.

So I called Dr. Carson at his home office and this is what he said.

I suppose there are few theological topics that are more unacceptable to the contemporary

Western world than the theme of the wrath of God.

The fact remains that the wrath of God is spoken of something like 600 times, directly

or indirectly, in the Old Testament alone, quite apart from New Testament usages.

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