“As unsettling as it may be to reflect on the reality of God’s wrath, divine wrath is a necessary complement to God’s love and justice.”
Marcion, a second-century heretic, who sought to serve the Christian Church, did not understand this, believing that God was too merciful and loving to be the same wrathful God that he saw in the Old Testament. So, the blather produced by some today (such as Rob Bell) is nothing new.
But it does do damage to the gospel, so often called “good news.” Where is the good news if all ultimately find their way to heaven? But the gospel has enormously good news within it, because it states that a God, who has an inflexible hatred of sin, has been reconciled by the finished work of Jesus Christ.
That’s a gospel worth dying for. The other is, well, blather.
