How is it that God can be all loving and caring and at the same time have 'wrath'?

Question

Wrath is defined as:
1 : strong vengeful anger or indignation
2 : retributory punishment for an offense or a crime : divine chastisement
So the argument that we send our selves to hell is not true because clearly God is punishing us for the offense of commiting 'sin'.
A more sutible definition of the 'wrath of god' is divine chastisement.
Chastisement is defined as:
1: to inflict punishment on (as by whipping)
2: to censure severely
So clearly we do not send ourselves to hell and the god in the bible does it to punish us for eternity which clearly contradicts that that god is all loving and caring because a being who has wrath and inflicts punishment is not so.

Answer 1

you are so off. god is the father and like any father you love your children but punish them when need be. hell you also dont understand. hell does not burn forever. hell,or the lake of fire, is a garbage pit where god burns garbage ,that is to say the souls that are of no use to him. if you go to hell, you burn up instantly and are gone forever.

Answer 2

Hated: relatively God made provision for Esau (see Gen.27:39, 36 Deut. 23:7). Hated is an idom the place the alternative is used to precise a lesser degree. as an occasion, Gen 29:30 says Jacob enjoyed Rachel better than Leah, however the subsequent verse (actually translated) says that Leah grew to become into hated. What Paul is asserting is that Esau grew to become into no longer the object of God's electing purpose.

Answer 3

You are in error as hell is simply the grave of all mankind and not a place of torture. The Bible does not teach this. The one place it mentions something close is a parable of Jesus. The rich man and Lazarus. You know this is a fable told to teach people because Jesus said it was a parable. common sense would suggest a rich man in fiery torment would not ask for just a thimble full of water but for many barrels of water.

The bigger point of the question is He has all these qualities in perfect amounts. Love, caring, but also Justice and Righteousness. He does not excuse wrongdoing but can forgive if asked sincerely with repentance. Proper punishment is given to those with no repentance. Judgment is always fair from Him.

Answer 4

The same way a parent can love a child. We still love them completely when we are punishing them. Punishment, wrath, chastisement, whatever you want to call it, is to lead us to the right path and get us away from the path that's going to get us hurt or in trouble. As for hell, God didn't create Hell for people. He created it for satan and his demons. But by our own choice of continually ignoring God, not believing in Him, and not having faith in Him, He has no choice but to put us there. And by some of the stupid answers on here, I'm pretty sure He's in the right.

Answer 5

Without justice, the bounds of love cannot be defined. A so called god of love that didn't condemn anyone would be kind of like this:

Imagine a great loving (earthly) father with a beautiful wife that he simply adores and does so much for. They have a couple of kids and raise a family.

One day someone at the dude's work threatens to kill his wife. The dad merely shrugs it off and does his best to do show "love" towards this person every day he sees him.

Then unexpectantly a few weeks later he arrives home to find his wife dead, shot/stabbed/however. Later when the murderer is convicted and all the truth is laid out, his kids who used to adore their father basically disowned him because he could have done something to prevent the murder since he had warning signs beforehand. And the father realizes his mistake and lives in guilt the rest of his life.

If you truly love someone, how do you show it without expressing it with action and justice? Without divine justice, there can be no true godly love.

Answer 6

I think the whole 'warth' thing comes mostly from the old testament in the bible. If you look at the new testament he is an all loving god. I think it might have something to do with the whole Jesus coming to die for our sins.
I think the new testament needs to become a bigger part of christianity instead of focusing on the old testament. I mean it's the OLD testament - doesn't that explain it pretty well?

Answer 7

God's foremost characteristic is holiness, all others flow from that. He is also perfectly righteous. Out of His holiness and righteousness, He allows those whom He has not chosen out for salvation to continue on their natural course, which ends up in eternal punishment. In His holiness, He cannot allow sin into His Heaven, and in His righteousness, sin must be paid for. Either Christ paid for your sin, or you do. His love cannot supersede His holiness and righteousness.

Answer 8

A person...and God, can be loving and caring and have wrath, there is no contradiction there.

But having wrath and being wise is another matter.

Answer 9

God is loving-he hates "sin" because it hurts his people, hence his "wrath". If everyone was loving and kind, he would not be angry about the injustice and oppression of people.
Couldn't you be a loving persona and yet get angry if your son ran in the street almost killing himself or get angry if someone severely hurt him?

Answer 10

its like this, sin dies with in his sight...we do wrong then hide from him out of shame and guilt. we kill our selves. and the "eternity" in which you speak of is not so, the fire of "hell" lasts "for ever" which the definition is "the duration of time" as long as there is fuel for the fire, the fire will last, when the fuel runs out the fire will be no more...besides, how will the new Earth come to be with the "fire" going ? think about it ;)
God of Heaven is a loving God and does not want is to die, but we kill our selves :)