‘How can a God of love be also a God filled with wrath and anger? If he is loving and perfect, he should forgive and accept everyone. He shouldn’t get angry.’ I always start my response by pointing out that all loving people are sometimes filled with wrath, not just despite of but because of their love. If you love a person and you see someone ruining them – even they themselves – you get angry. As Becky Pippert puts it in her book Hope Has Its Reasons: Think how we feel when we see someone we love ravaged by unwise actions or relationships. Do we respond with benign tolerance as we might
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