ABSTRACT

Some people have suggested that the truth aimed at in the attribution of anger to God is capable of being expressed in a more precise, less symbolical, way. The difficulty regarding the Christian view is that it includes both the apparently incompatible characters in one Divine Being. The idea of God's wrath is indeed different from the Indian view of karma in so far as karma is an impersonal law; but God's wrath is what the law of karma becomes if the nexus is regarded as willed by personal God. God's election of particular members of the Divine Society for pre-eminent endowment and glory thus gives no just grievance to rest. True, from the Christian point of view indeed from the point of view of any of the theistic religions founded on religion of the ancient Hebrews Christianity, Judaism, Islam the attitude of God to sinner is not described in its most significant aspect by one speaking of God's wrath.