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Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God

The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News

by Brian Zahnd
Scott Pollak
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God is wrath? Or God is Love? In his famous sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Puritan revivalist Jonathan Edwards shaped predominating American theology with a vision of God as angry, violent, and retributive. Three centuries later, Brian Zahnd was both mesmerized and terrified by Edwards's wrathful God. Haunted by fear that crippled his relationship with God, Zahnd spent years praying for a divine experience of hell. What Zahnd experienced instead was the Father's love-revealed perfectly through Jesus Christ-for all prodigal sons and daughters. In Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God, Zahnd asks important questions like: Is seeing God primarily as wrathful towards sinners true or biblical? Is fearing God a normal expected behavior? And where might the natural implications of this theological framework lead us? Thoughtfully wrestling with subjects like Old Testament genocide, the crucifixion of Jesus, eternal punishment in hell, and the final judgment in Revelation, Zahnd maintains that the summit of divine revelation for sinners is not God is wrath, but God is love.

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    May 31, 2018

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      • ISBN: 9781545907528
      • File size: 150446 KB
      • Duration: 05:13:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 28, 2017
      Zahnd (Water to Wine), pastor and founder of the Word of Life Church in St. Joseph, Miss., thoughtfully probes the fearful view of God and the idea that fearing God is somehow an expected behavior. He was captured at a young age by Jonathan Edwards’s famous 1741 sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” and spent years haunted by a vision of a wrathful God. Here he argues that the ultimate expression of God is found in Jesus, and that the angry passages Edwards and others use to inspire fear are handpicked for maximum effect. Rather than wrathful, he says, God is supremely loving. Zahnd states that his view is not a “low view of Scripture but a high view of Christ.” He argues diligently and persuasively that Christians can’t embrace a flat reading of the Bible in which the Old Testament holds equal weight with the person of Jesus Christ, but must instead view the Old Testament as the beginning of a revelation from God that reaches its true culmination in Jesus.

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