Does God relish the ability to punish? Is He vengeful, and even gleeful at the opportunity to pour out judgement? Let's look at the lie we often believe - that He IS, and it's companion lies, that He takes pleasure in punishing and that He could and would wrongly mete out judgement upon us just to achieve that end.
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