October 25, 2009: God and Violence – Michael Hidalgo

Exploring the wrath of God. Let’s be honest, the wrath, anger, and fury of God is just not popular anymore. But why? It is clearly a part of who God is, but how can a God who is “love” do such things to his kids? 

If God did not get angry, I think we would have to wonder how passionate his love was in the first place. After all what is the right response to reversing and perverting the beautiful creation that he has put forth? God’s wrath can be seen in the brokenness, dehumanization and barrenness that idolatry and sexuality produces. 

For those who have been brutalized, exploited, and oppressed who do they have to go to? Who will hear their cries? When we consider God’s wrath in light of the injustice that we see all around us it suddenly makes sense.