Imagine the godliness person you can think of. You would probably describe them as loving, or kind, or patient. You probably wouldn’t describe them as wrathful or angry. Yet, if you really spent a lot of time with them you’d eventually see them get angry at some point, especially at injustice.

So it is with God. Love, mercy, grace, kindness, patience and all the wonderful expressions of his goodness is his fundamental disposition. Yet he does get angry when there is an unrepentant love for sin in rebellion against the truth, or worship of false gods, etc. Even then, he his patient because he doesn’t want anyone to perish, but desires all come to repentance.

To imply that God is half loving and half wrathful as some do is very misleading.

It is very important to understand that reconciliation and forgiveness throughout scripture is never the result of God satisfying…