A Good Place To Start
Does God punish to satisfy justice, or to bring about healing and reconciliation? Thomas Talbott, Tim Wray, Anthony E. Johnson, and Danny Silk each bring distinct perspectives to this question — one that fundamentally shapes how we understand both God and ourselves.
1 Cor 3:10-15; Rom 11:22; Matt 19:25
The death or the punishment that sin brings is as much a means of grace, on his view, as the death that being crucified with Christ brings, and in both cases death is a process whereby the old person or the false self is destroyed. The...
Isaiah 26:9; Hebrews 12:29; Malachi 3:3; 1 Peter 1:7; Matthew 3:12; 1 Corinthians 3:13; Revelation 20:12; Romans 2:6
1. God's Judgment Brings Righteousness — Not Eternal Torment“When Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.”— Isaiah 26:9God does not destroy to annihilate — He judges to teach. His fire is not...
Isa.4:4; 1Cor.5:5; Rom.7:13-25; Heb.12:10
Love is not simply one aspect of God’s character among others, such as wisdom, justice and power: love is the essence of God’s Being, the fount of all His attributes; the motivating principle behind all His works. Love is, as it were, the...
Do we see scary, messy sinners who deserve hatred and punishment, or do we see sons and daughters for whom the Father sacrificed everything to love and restore? Only when we see the latter can we be trusted to sit down with someone in a...