and also . . .

I think this backs up one of my arguments - to apprecite the depth of your rescue you must appreciate the depth of your fall. You cannot have mercy without an understanding divine vengeance and wrath.

There is nothing more fearful in reality or in imagination than the prospect of everlasting, never-ending, omnipotent, unimpeachably just and righteous divine wrath and fury. And that is the consequence of our sin.

Unless we get this clear in our heads and powerful in our emotions, the love of God will be reduced to sentimentalism or to a mere assistance for our self-help improvement and recovery plans. It will not be to us the infinitely precious, tremblingly embraced treasure that it really is.