The Wrath of God? Really?

The wrath of God? Really? Is God just itching to dump out his wrath on us, that he's held out on for sooooo long, but boy, when it's time, he's really gonna let us have it? Does God hold a grudge? Really...?

My two cents:
''Wrath of God'' is a misnomer. It's not that God is so angry with us that He plots out his revenge on us, carefully guarding his hidden hurts to keep himself cold hearted enough to stick to his plan of ''delicious retaliation.'' ''The wrath of God'' and even the saying ''vengeance is mine, saith the Lord.'' Really don't gel well with the idea that ''God is love.'' Does love take pleasure in seeking vengeance, satisfying an ''itch'' to ''fix someone's clock?'' These things might seem comforting to those who ''need'' to feel that they will be avenged, but can such an ''itch'' even exist within perfect love?

I propose that: ''the wrath of God'' is just another title for what some call ''karma.'' Karma isn't ''a bitch,'' any more than the combination of one atom of sodium and one atom of chlorine to form a molecule of NaCl is ''a bitch.'' Karma is just what happens. If you eat bad food, you will get sick; not because God is punishing you or taking out his frustrations on you.

The presence of karma that ''pulls no punches'' is essential to a reality in which our free will is 100% free--free from uninvited divine influence to force us, or even to sway us to any degree, to abstain from things that will harm us.

And to harmonise with the bible, not necessarily with organised religion: God doesn't force people to be christians, He lets them believe whatever they want. One theologian put it like this: ''where does a 600 pound gorilla sleep in the jungle? --ANYWHERE he wants! Man DOES have sovereignty, but if he's smart, he'll hand it right back over to God.'' God doesn't force us to do, say, choose, or believe anything. He lets us learn on our own, so that the choices we make are entirely ours. How else can there be a ''test'' in it, upon which we are ''graded'' at the end of our lives? ''Sparing'' us from the consequences of our own choices would be a subtraction from the freedoms we have as beings with a free will. ''Free will'' would be a joke, and karma would be the punchline. This principle of karma is described in the bible, as it relates to consequences of our choices; and it operates in our lives.

So then, the most important ''commandment'' is to love and exalt as the ultimate example of living: love itself; and in turn, to emulate the nature of love towards those within the scope of our influence. One cannot do this if one does not see ''love'' as ''God.'' ''No one can serve two masters.''

Is God vengeful? Is he just *itching* to really let some people have it?