Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God or Something Else?

Was this to satisfy God's anger or to rescue
us from the grasp of sin and death? 

God's wrath must be satisfied for the penalty of your sin...


When you grow up as a child hearing this from the myriads of deacons, elders, pastors, and evangelists that frequent your church, home, radio, and television it would be easy to envision God as a anger-bent, fire breathing dragon who waits at the slightest mistake to hurl lightning bolts our way. It's this picture of a scary higher power that causes people to question how this vengeful God and the meek and lowly lamb of a man named Jesus could be related at all. Without realizing it we form a theology where Jesus doesn't just save us from our sins; he saves us from the Father.

Are we just sinners in the hands of an angry God? According to most altar calls that will be held this Sunday we are. Just a big ugly clump of fallen humanity since the day we were born waiting for our guilty verdicts to be handed down. But, is looking at salvation as nothing more then a courtroom scene all there is or is there something else?

Is God just an angry judge or a Father calling back his lost son?

Did Jesus save us from a God bent on seeing us destroyed simply because we were born or a husband laying his life down for his future bride?