God's wrath *is* God's love. God's love doesn't absent itself when God's wrath is meted out. If our definition of "God's love" can't encompass that, we need to radically revise our conception of God's love.
That sounds to me like interpreting it as restorative justice rather than retributive justice. I think restorative justice is what we should aim for.
So I don't have a truck with Ananias and Saphira, or similar OT passages.
For me, they show a poor side of human authorship.
God's wrath *is* God's love. God's love doesn't absent itself when God's wrath is meted out. If our definition of "God's love" can't encompass that, we need to radically revise our conception of God's love.
That sounds to me like interpreting it as restorative justice rather than retributive justice. I think restorative justice is what we should aim for.
So I don't have a truck with Ananias and Saphira, or similar OT passages.
For me, they show a poor side of human authorship.
But perhaps it's what happened ..... definitely something to think about .... strange things do happen .... we don't really know why.
God's wrath *is* God's love. God's love doesn't absent itself when God's wrath is meted out. If our definition of "God's love" can't encompass that, we need to radically revise our conception of God's love.
That sounds to me like interpreting it as restorative justice rather than retributive justice. I think restorative justice is what we should aim for.
So I don't have a truck with Ananias and Saphira, or similar OT passages.
For me, they show a poor side of human authorship.
But perhaps it's what happened ..... definitely something to think about .... strange things do happen .... we don't really know why.
Well, some might see this as unusual event that just happened to be interesting enough to record.
The way I use the bible is to try and understand what the author of Luke is teaching his audience.
The pericope ends with "great fear seizing the whole church". So I suppose that is what the story is meant to evince in the audience.
I have heard that the Lukan church was becoming relatively affluent, but I forget the internal support for that.
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That sounds to me like interpreting it as restorative justice rather than retributive justice. I think restorative justice is what we should aim for.
So I don't have a truck with Ananias and Saphira, or similar OT passages.
For me, they show a poor side of human authorship.
But perhaps it's what happened ..... definitely something to think about .... strange things do happen .... we don't really know why.
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Well, some might see this as unusual event that just happened to be interesting enough to record.
The way I use the bible is to try and understand what the author of Luke is teaching his audience.
The pericope ends with "great fear seizing the whole church". So I suppose that is what the story is meant to evince in the audience.
I have heard that the Lukan church was becoming relatively affluent, but I forget the internal support for that.