For some reason this makes me think of "Sinners in the hands of an angry God" but it could be the sickness that is starting to take over my body.
"They deserve to be cast into hell; so that divine justice never stands in the way, it makes no objection against God's using his power at any moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, "Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?" Luke 13:7. The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and it is nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and God's mere will, that holds it back." ~Jonathan Edwards~ July 8, 1741
There are many varying theological interpretations on God's justice and/or benevalence but I am no theologian, let a lone a Christian. It is more into the 19th and 20th Centuries that the concept of God becomes more warm and fuzzy.
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"They deserve to be cast into hell; so that divine justice never stands in the way, it makes no objection against God's using his power at any moment to destroy them. Yea, on the contrary, justice calls aloud for an infinite punishment of their sins. Divine justice says of the tree that brings forth such grapes of Sodom, "Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?" Luke 13:7. The sword of divine justice is every moment brandished over their heads, and it is nothing but the hand of arbitrary mercy, and God's mere will, that holds it back." ~Jonathan Edwards~ July 8, 1741
There are many varying theological interpretations on God's justice and/or benevalence but I am no theologian, let a lone a Christian. It is more into the 19th and 20th Centuries that the concept of God becomes more warm and fuzzy.