In fact, far from being incompatible, the revelation of God on the cross was itself a divine judgment! As such, the cross should serve as the lens through which we interpret all other divine judgments. And, as we will begin to demonstrate in the following chapter, when we interpret accounts of divine judgment through the looking-glass cross, we can see how it is possible to affirm that God justly judges sin while denying that God ever acts violently in the process.
