2. Objection: It Is Unworthy to Present God as Requiring Satisfaction.
sinful man in such an angry way that he could only be reconciled through Christ's vicarious suffering and death.) Answer: What are worthy or unworthy concepts of God, man can learn only from God's revelation, that is, from the Scriptures. According to Scripture, God's wrath is against sinful man according to his righteousness, Rom. 1:18: "The wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men"; Gal. 3:10: "Cursed be everyone who does not abide in all that which is written in the book of the law, that he should do it"; Rom. 5:10: éy@poi évtEc [being enemies]. 8) — That God is angry with men because of their sins, every man feels in his
(Eph. 1:7; 1 Cor. 6:20; Gal. 3:13) cannot be translated into general deliverance; because the Avtpov or avtiAvtpov (Matt. 20:28; 1 Tim, 2:6), which Christ performed... was His blood, which was the atoning sacrificial blood... However, dnoAvtpwotc can express the general concept of deliverance, which is in the Christian sense messianic salvation (Rom. 8:23); but where it speaks of the effect of the death of Jesus, as here and Eph. 1:7 etc., the atoning sacrificial blood is meant as the purchase price (against Ritschl), as illuminated in Matt. 20:28; 1 Cor. 6:20; 7:23; Gal. 3:13 etc. The same proof in Quenstedt, Syst. I, 653 ff.
Ritschl etc., but also with many American sect preachers of our time. One has become timid to tell the tender generation of our time about the wrath of God against the sinful human race.
comprehensible, because Christ's death did not erase the hostility of men against God... Only the passive explanation is correct: "Enemies of God, that is, those against whom the holy opytjc [wrath] of God on account of sin, 8sootvysic [hated by God], 1:30; tékva Opyijs [children of wrath], Eph. 2:3" Cf. note 50. conscience; all philosophical speculations about the impossibility, irrationality etc. of the wrath of God cannot soothe a conscience. — The wrath of God against the sin of men is also evident in the fact of death that comes upon men, Hebr. 2:16. But that this actual wrath of God against the sin of men has come upon Christ, has broken in Christ and through him has been transformed into grace, is clearly taught in Gal. 3:13: "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse (katépa) for us.