References:

(1) Christianity is a religion that is based on revelation: nobody would know the truth about God, or be able to relate to Him in a personal way were it not that first had taken the initiative to make Himself known in the Bible.

(2) H. Richard Niebuhr criticized Christian Liberalism by saying they believed “a God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.”

(3) David Martyn Lloyd-Jones gives 4 reasons for discussing God’s wrath in his book “God’s Way of Reconciliation.” a) Wrath is part of Scripture and we cannot pick and choose what we like and ignore what we don’t like. b) Wrath is not just a theory but a statement of fact. c) The apostle Paul’s whole argument (in Ephesians) is that we can never understand the love of God until we see it in the light of the doctrine of the wrath of God and the judgment of God. d) Wrath is essential for Christians to discuss and learn about from the standpoint of evangelism.

(4) “Systematic Theology” by Wayne Grudem.

(5) Syncretism.

(6) “Basic Christianity” by John Stott.

This is episode 96.