Where did the wrath of God go?

[agedman]

@Iconoclast posted this at the end of a now closed thread in which e was responding to a post concerning Ephesians.

"I and all those I have posted think scripture tells us...something took place at the cross to remove it from the elect by satisfying the laws demands.
You evidently avoid that.
The fact that you are not looking at the links shows you are m.j ot really concerned as I suspected.
So they are for those who want to read and gain understanding."
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This is a very good post and shares the essence of the question in which this thread seeks to resolve.

Fist, it is important to examine the specific qualifications of those in whom wrath is appointed. They are taken from Romans 1 and 2. Here is a list:

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him,

they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator,

women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
27Likewise, the Men men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another.

they did not see fit to acknowledge God,

filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, and boastful. They invent new forms of evil; they disobey their parents. 31They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.

they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.

5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

6God “will repay each one according to his deeds.”

8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger. 9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil, first for the Jew, then for the Greek;

11For God does not show favoritism.
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From this list we see that wrath is stored up to pour out upon the ungodly without favoritism. To all those who meet any of these items on the list, the wrath of God is being stored up.

The next post will show were the wrath for believers has gone.

 

[agedman]

This is a continuation of the OP and will begin the answer to where the wrath "vanished" as @Iconoclast has published.

Again, I will start with Romans 1 and 2:

2the gospel He promised beforehand through His prophets in the Holy Scriptures, 3regarding His Son, who was a descendant of David according to the flesh, 4and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to be the Son of God by His resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 5Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith. 6And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

16I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek. 17For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
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"The Gospel reveals the righteousness of God." How many times did our Savior deliver the Gospel during His ministry?
"The Gospel ... is the power of God for salvation..." This thought is prominent through the whole book of Romans.

Continuing in Romans we move to chapter 3:

19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. 20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.
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This is also an important principle to hold when considering what happened to God's wrath.
The law brings the awareness of sin, not the justification needed.

Continuing with Romans 3:

21But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets. 22And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction, 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24and are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
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How did that happen?

25God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. 26He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.

27Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith. 28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law. 29Is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles too? Yes, of Gentiles too, 30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.

31Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.​

So, Romans, in chapter 3 points to the "atoning sacrifice" (propitiation).

Paul is not about just the blood, but the whole. The furniture as well as the actions of the high priest.

What does this passage state concerning the sins of those committed before this atoning sacrifice by Christ? "He had passed over them." Why, to "demonstrate His righteousness..." Why? "To be just and to justify" believers.

What happened to God's wrath?

It is still there, storing up for the ungodly. Those that meet the qualifiers of Romans 1 and 2.

What about wrath that was appointed to us? Next post.

 

[agedman]

Where did the wrath go that was appointed to believers, for we are also appointed to wrath.

Look at Ephesians 2 for an answer:

1And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.​

Sounds like a paraphrase of Romans 1 and 2. IMO, Paul preached that message of the coming wrath as a regular part of his presentation of the gospel, for that word of God would allow the Holy Spirit to convict of sin, righteousness, and judgement.

Continuing with Ephesians 2:

4But (and) God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— 6and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
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What happened to the wrath? It was taken away when made alive with Christ. Christ the atoning sacrifice was raised from the dead, the sacrifice came alive, and we who are believers are alive together with Christ. Ungodly have no such atoning sacrifice and remain under the wrath of God; however, because of the God, we are His workmanship, created in Christ, and are already raised up and seated with Him by Christ Jesus.

11Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— 12remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

14For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility. ​

Oh, dear friends, HERE is the answer! Here is were the wrath of God was placed.

IT WAS ABOLISHED!!! The law of commandments expressed in ordinances, HE abolished!!!!

HE the creator of the Law has all authority over the exercise of the law, abolished that which stood against believers nailing it to the cross. (Colossians 2).

Doing so, the old man abides still subject to the law and ordinances, still reaping the wages of sin, Yet we are also a NEW creation.

The vale that once separated believers from the throne of God, is torn and thrown away, and we now come to sit at the presence of God through the vale of His body. (Hebrews) It blocks out the ungodly, and only those of the New Creation have access.

17And he came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near. 18For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, 20built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, 21in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. 22In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.
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The wrath did not vanish.

The wrath met its doom by being nailed to the cross, and abolished.

 

[AustinC]

It seems some may have made God into the image of a fuzzy pink bunny rather than one who filled Mount Sinai with his thunder, lightning, and tremors, in conjunction with boundaries, that if crossed resulted in certain death.

 

[Iconoclast]

The law of God is not abolished...it is in our new heart.
The wrath of God was not nailed to the cross.
Jesus was nailed to the cross in the place of each elect person.
This is unjust if the ungodly get punished for their sins, and believers sins vanish as you describe here.
The law was canceled.....no ten commandments?
It was canceled so we did not sin?

 

[agedman]

It seems some may have made God into the image of a fuzzy pink bunny rather than one who filled Mount Sinai with his thunder, lightning, and tremors, in conjunction with boundaries, that if crossed resulted in certain death.

It would be really good if you actually contributed by showing where you present the wrath of God went.

I did, and it seems you don't like it. Yet, you offer nothing but your opinion?

Please present something more substantial and more then "it was poured out upon Christ on the Cross" for so far there has been NO Scripture support found, not by you and not by Iconoclast.

It would seem that your view actually makes "God into the image of a fuzzy pink bunny" because you have no wrath left it was all poured out upon Christ.

Not what the Scriptures which I showed. But what your view brings through universalism.

 

[agedman]

The law of God is not abolished...it is in our new heart.
The wrath of God was not nailed to the cross.
Jesus was nailed to the cross in the place of each elect person.
This is unjust if the ungodly get punished for their sins, and believers sins vanish as you describe here.
The law was canceled.....no ten commandments?
It was canceled so we did not sin?

It would be really good if you took what I posted rather than present what I did not post.

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But no, you pervert what I post into such a statement as, "The law was canceled ..... no ten commandments?"

I did not post:

"20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

This is also an important principle to hold when considering what happened to God's wrath.
The law brings the awareness of sin, not the justification needed."
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Iconoclast, if you click on the little blue numbers you will see that is a direct quote from the Scriptures. NOT my own thoughts unlike you present in the next sentence.

Then you present, "Jesus was nailed to the cross in the place of each elect person."​

But you neither prove that statement with Scripture, and present it as if I disagree? Why would you do that?
How many times have I posted Colossians 2:

13When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses, 14having canceled the debt ascribed to us in the decrees that stood against us. He took it away, nailing it to the cross!​

Then you state, "This is unjust if the ungodly get punished for their sins, and believers sins vanish as you describe here."

Yep. Believers are not condemned. The reason is given in Romans 3 as I posted, in Ephesians 2 as I posted and now in Colossians 2 has been posted.

You place great weight on inspecting the Scriptures and proving what is faithful to the standard and principles taught.

I have kept that standard. Now, instead of presenting mere opinion you need to produce actual Scripture that states what you hold. I did, your turn.

 

[atpollard]

For me, the well deserved wrath was replaced with GRACE and MERCY. That it is so, I cannot deny. That Jesus and the cross is the reason WHY is irrefutable. Where the wrath went … I wonder every day.

It seems unjust for Christ to have received it, but it is undeniable that it no longer rests on me. To quote my Lutheran brothers: “divine mystery”.

 

[agedman]

@AustinC and @Iconoclast

I assumed that you both knew that we believers were also born with the nature subject to God's wrath. Is it not written in Romans 3:

28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.​

The Law is not toothless. Only believers "apart from the law" are justified by faith. The law of offerings and sacrifices do not apply to the believer. There is no sacrifice other then our own selves in service that God desires. The law's decrees held against us were satisfactorily nailed to the Cross, and therefore the law has no impact upon us. Yet, that pertains to all that is ceremonial, for sin still resides in our earthy bodies so death will come and as death is but a valley called the shadow of death, the sting of judgement has been removed for believers, we have passed from death to life, by the Grace of God.

I will gladly look over what Scripture you bring. I have pleaded multiple times on all these threads for Scripture to be presented.

Do you have such Scripture to present?

Are you really content to have a view that is not actually found in the Scriptures?

You would certainly be able to prove the doctrines of Grace with Scriptures - abundant Scriptures.

That is an example of what is necessary for any foundational doctrine. Not a single verse that doesn't actually meet the standard, but multiple verse statements and multiple presentations of type. From abundance a doctrine is formed. Not from some human inference that is nothing but opinion.

So, bring me Scriptures!

And please, do not post that which is unfounded, in which you know is beneath your own standard.

Teasing is fine, we all can have a good laugh, but mockery - really?

Show me the Scriptures.

 

[agedman]

For me, the well deserved wrath was replaced with GRACE and MERCY. That it is so, I cannot deny. That Jesus and the cross is the reason WHY is irrefutable. Where the wrath went … I wonder every day.

It seems unjust for Christ to have received it, but it is undeniable that it no longer rests on me. To quote my Lutheran brothers: “divine mystery”.

The Greek, Roman and Persian cultures were/are big on the gods displaying wrath and at war with each other. (imo) some of that influence remains, for how many media presentations that entertain have a great strife between the power brokers and people users.

However there is a verse in 1 Thessalonians that may assist in your wondering:

9For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him. 11Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
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The wrath of God was never extinguished. It is still filling angel sized bowls in the temple. Part of that wrath is the treatment given the Christ, for our Lord said it would be more tolerable for "Tyre and Sidon then you" (Korazin and Bethsaida).

 

[JonC]

The law of God is not abolished...it is in our new heart.
The wrath of God was not nailed to the cross.
Jesus was nailed to the cross in the place of each elect person.
This is unjust if the ungodly get punished for their sins, and believers sins vanish as you describe here.
The law was canceled.....no ten commandments?
It was canceled so we did not sin?

I think a good case can be made that in redemption we witness God's righteousness separated from the law.

The law has its purpose, as a testimony to the Covenant to come. Christ fulfilled the law (He is the One to Whom the law points). So obviously the law also serves to convict us of our sin, that we "miss the mark" of God's righteousness.

But it is not through the law that our Salvation has come. We cannot be saved through the law (we can only be condemned...not because of the law but because of us).

The debt the law demanded of us was never paid. It was canceled. This is because God made us new creations, born not of flesh and blood but of the Spirit.

Therefore God saved us, justified sinners, in a way that was different from the law. He re-creates us. He is just and the justifier of sinners.

What you are talking about is not God exercising justice (which would require either the wicked be condemned or the wicked somehow made good) but some need that binds God to pour wrath upon offences against Him. Your solution is God acquited the wicked (He didn't) by punishing their crimes laid upon the righteous (He didn't). Scripture tells a very different story.

 

[Iconoclast]

agedman,

It would be really good if you took what I posted rather than present what I did not post.

Okay...i will expose your error if you want. I answered quickly from my phone, now I will look more in detail.​

But no, you pervert what I post into such a statement as, "The law was canceled ..... no ten commandments?"

Both of you do not understand the law and the gospel.
Let me quote you;

IT WAS ABOLISHED!!! The law of commandments expressed in ordinances, HE abolished!!!!

HE the creator of the Law has all authority over the exercise of the law, abolished that which stood against believers nailing it to the cross. (Colossians 2).

God did not abolish the law...This is literally what you posted.
You are missing what Col.2 means.
This antinomian statement is not supported by your misuse of Col.2:14

eadie;
Nailed (4338) (proseloo from prós = to + helos = nail, peg, stud) means to affix with nails or spikes and describes the manner in which Christ removed the "I.O.U." (handwriting) against us. God nailed the Mosaic Law with all its decrees to the Cross of Christ when Christ was nailed to the Cross taking upon Himself the curse of the Law. The law with its decrees was abolished in Christ’s death, as if crucified with Him. It was no longer in the midst, in the foreground, as a debtor’s obligation is perpetually before him, embarrassing his whole life.

I did not post:

"20Therefore no one will be justified in His sight by works of the law. For the law merely brings awareness of sin.

This is also an important principle to hold when considering what happened to God's wrath.
The law brings the awareness of sin, not the justification needed."
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Iconoclast, if you click on the little blue numbers you will see that is a direct quote from the Scriptures. NOT my own thoughts unlike you present in the next sentence.

Then you present, "Jesus was nailed to the cross in the place of each elect person."​

Your quote is a scripture verse that once again has nothing to do with the question

I will post this for the benefit of the readers.

You place great weight on inspecting the Scriptures and proving what is faithful to the standard and principles taught.
I have kept that standard. Now, instead of presenting mere opinion you need to produce actual Scripture that states what you hold. I did, your turn.

My friend...I do not think you understand many of the scriptures you are posting. Not one you have used means what you suggest.

 

[Iconoclast]

"JonC,

But it is not through the law that our Salvation has come. We cannot be saved through the law (we can only be condemned...not because of the law but because of us).

The debt the law demanded of us was never paid. It was canceled.

Jesus paid it in full.
We are saved by law keeping.
It is not us who keep the law in order to be saved.
It was Jesus who paid the sin debt IN FULL.
IT WAS THE ACTIVE OBEDIENCE OF JESUS THE KEPT THE LAW PERFECTLY FOR THE ELECT, THAT GIVES US A PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS...HIS....NOT OURS

This is because God made us new creations, born not of flesh and blood but of the Spirit.

Therefore God saved us, justified sinners, in a way that was different from the law. He re-creates us. He is just and the justifier of sinners.

What you are talking about is not God exercising justice (which would require either the wicked be condemned or the wicked somehow made good) but some need that binds God to pour wrath upon offences against Him. Your solution is God acquited the wicked (He didn't) by punishing their crimes laid upon the righteous (He didn't). Scripture tells a very different story[/QUOTE]


This is a denial of the biblical gospel

 

[Iconoclast]

The Greek, Roman and Persian cultures were/are big on the gods displaying wrath and at war with each other. (imo) some of that influence remains, for how many media presentations that entertain have a great strife between the power brokers and people users.

However there is a verse in 1 Thessalonians that may assist in your wondering:

9For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. 10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him. 11Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
​

The wrath of God was never extinguished. It is still filling angel sized bowls in the temple. Part of that wrath is the treatment given the Christ, for our Lord said it would be more tolerable for "Tyre and Sidon then you" (Korazin and Bethsaida).

This is not in the ball park;
Eadie also gives a view somewhat different than Barnes (above) writing that

The allusion is not to the tablet nailed to the cross above the sufferer… but to the crucifixion of the Redeemer Himself. There seems to be no historical ground for the illustration of Grotius, that it was customary to thrust a nail through papers—declaring them old and obsolete, much in the same way as a Bank of England note is punched through the centre when declared to be no longer of value, and no longer to be put into circulation.

The idea of the apostle is, that when Christ was nailed to the cross, the condemning power of the law was nailed along with Him, and died with Him— “Now we are delivered from the law, that being dead in which we were held.” Ro 7:6-note. In other words, God exempts sinners from the sentence which they merit, through the sufferings and death of Jesus. The implied doctrine is, that the guilt of men was borne by Christ when He died—was laid on Him by that God who by this method took the handwriting out of the way. Jesus bore the sentence of the handwriting in Himself, and God now remits its penalty; having forgiven you all your trespasses, inasmuch as He has blotted out the hostile handwriting and taken it out of the way, for He nailed it to the cross of His Son. (Colossians 2:14, 15 In Depth Commentary)

 

[Iconoclast]

For me, the well deserved wrath was replaced with GRACE and MERCY. That it is so, I cannot deny. That Jesus and the cross is the reason WHY is irrefutable. Where the wrath went … I wonder every day.

It seems unjust for Christ to have received it, but it is undeniable that it no longer rests on me. To quote my Lutheran brothers: “divine mystery”.

In love He humbled Himself for us.

 

[JonC]

"JonC,


Jesus paid it in full.
We are saved by law keeping.
It is not us who keep the law in order to be saved.
It was Jesus who paid the sin debt IN FULL.
IT WAS THE ACTIVE OBEDIENCE OF JESUS THE KEPT THE LAW PERFECTLY FOR THE ELECT, THAT GIVES US A PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS...HIS....NOT OURS

You have communicated your opinion here before and I understand that is what you believe. But that is not what is written in Scripture.

Have you ever considered that it is not Christ's perfect obedience of the law but rather that the law points to perfect man (the law testifies of Christ, not the other way around).

And the Bible does not say that our debt to the law was paid. What does God's Word actually say?

He canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, decrees which were hostile to us. He took them out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

This is very different from what you believe.

 

[Iconoclast]

You have communicated your opinion here before and I understand that is what you believe. But that is not what is written in Scripture.

Have you ever considered that it is not Christ's perfect obedience of the law but rather that the law points to perfect man (the law testifies of Christ, not the other way around).

And the Bible does not say that our debt to the law was paid. What does God's Word actually say?

He canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, decrees which were hostile to us. He took them out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.

This is very different from what you believe.

Chapter 1. The Necessity of the Atonement The Priesthood of Christ, according to the Apostle Paul and the types of the Jewish ritual, is divided into two parts: the ATONEMENT which he made to divine justice, and his INTERCESSION in heaven.

1 The necessity of such an atonement, which is the foundation of all practical piety and all Christian hopes, must therefore be firmly established, and defended against the fiery darts of Satan, with which it is attacked by innumerable adversaries. Upon this subject, the opinions of divines may be classed under three heads:

1. That of the Socinians, who not only deny that an atonement was made, but affirm that it was not at all necessary, since God both could and would pardon sin, without any satisfaction made to his justice.

God has decreed that an atonement is to be made, therefore it is necessary. To this they also add a necessity of fitness: because the commands of God have been transgressed, it is fit that satisfaction should be made, so that the transgressor may not pass with impunity. Yet they deny that it was absolutely necessary, because God, they say, might have devised some other way of pardon than through the medium of an atonement.
This is your error.

 

[Iconoclast]

I think a good case can be made that in redemption we witness God's righteousness separated from the law.

The law has its purpose, as a testimony to the Covenant to come. Christ fulfilled the law (He is the One to Whom the law points). So obviously the law also serves to convict us of our sin, that we "miss the mark" of God's righteousness.

But it is not through the law that our Salvation has come. We cannot be saved through the law (we can only be condemned...not because of the law but because of us).

The debt the law demanded of us was never paid. It was canceled. This is because God made us new creations, born not of flesh and blood but of the Spirit.

Therefore God saved us, justified sinners, in a way that was different from the law. He re-creates us. He is just and the justifier of sinners.

What you are talking about is not God exercising justice (which would require either the wicked be condemned or the wicked somehow made good) but some need that binds God to pour wrath upon offences against Him. Your solution is God acquited the wicked (He didn't) by punishing their crimes laid upon the righteous (He didn't). Scripture tells a very different story.

1. Of sin, which renders us guilty, and binds us over to punishment as hated by God. It may be viewed as a debt which we are bound to pay to divine justice, in which sense the law is called "a hand-writing," Col 2:14; as a principle of enmity, whereby we hate God and he becomes our enemy; as a crime against the government of the universe, by which, before God the supreme governor and judge, we become deserving of everlasting death and malediction. This is why sinners are expressly called "debtors," Mat 6:12; "enemies to God," Col. 1:21, both actively and passively; "and guilty before God," Rom 3:19. We therefore infer that three things were necessary in order for our redemption: the payment of the debt contracted by sin, the appeasing of the divine wrath, and the expiation of guilt.

Turretin

 

[Alcott]

Where did the wrath of God go?

I don't know, and I ain't looking for it.

 

[JonC]

Chapter 1. The Necessity of the Atonement The Priesthood of Christ, according to the Apostle Paul and the types of the Jewish ritual, is divided into two parts: the ATONEMENT which he made to divine justice, and his INTERCESSION in heaven.

1 The necessity of such an atonement, which is the foundation of all practical piety and all Christian hopes, must therefore be firmly established, and defended against the fiery darts of Satan, with which it is attacked by innumerable adversaries. Upon this subject, the opinions of divines may be classed under three heads:

1. That of the Socinians, who not only deny that an atonement was made, but affirm that it was not at all necessary, since God both could and would pardon sin, without any satisfaction made to his justice.

, so that the transgressor may not pass with impunity. Yet they deny that it was absolutely necessary, because God, they say, might have devised some other way of pardon than through the medium of an atonement.
This is your error.

I hate to mention this, and you may not have noticed, but there are a few issues with your post.

First, I (and @agedman ) never denied that God's justice would go unmet. We just insisted God's justice was in accordance with what Scripture describes as God's righteousness and exactly as is written in God's Word. I am simply saying that God's justice was satisfied via a manifestation of God's righteousness apart from the law. Men must be reborn, the unjust made just.

2. You are offering the ideas of a Reformed theologian (Francis Turretin) rather than an authority to test your doctrine. You should have sought out Scripture and prevented the serious error.