by admin | May 3, 2014 | Section Three, Torture
I don’t want to leave the impression that I am so perfected in love that I never fear punishment.[1] I’m a creature of habit. The possibility that God is punishing me for something is the first thing that comes to mind whenever it seems that things aren’t going my...
by admin | Feb 19, 2014 | Section Three, Torture
Suspecting that my antipathy (and objections) to Jonathan Edwards’ contention that God is the Superlative Torturer are rooted in my personal history, I need to revisit the long name of God for perspective. The Long Name of God The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and...
by admin | Feb 18, 2014 | Section Three, Torture
Then a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and with the moon under her feet, and on her head was a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was screaming in labor pains, struggling (βασανιζομένη, a form of βασανίζω)[1] to give birth.[2] A...
by admin | Jan 3, 2014 | Section Three, Torture
And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture (βασανισταῖς, a form of βασανιστής)[1] him until he repaid all he owed. So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive (ἀφῆτε, a form of ἀφίημι)[2] your brother from...
by admin | Dec 2, 2013 | Section Three, Torture
Since I faulted Jonathan Edwards for making a bad argument to support the assertion in his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” that “the great and almighty creator and king of heaven and earth” is the superlative torturer, I think it best that I look again...