One text from modern revelation that refutes the “sugary” view of God and supports the thesis He has genuine wrath is the following:
Yea, verily, I say,
hear the word of him whose anger is kindled against the wicked and rebellious;
Who willeth to take even them whom he will take, and preserveth in life them
whom he will preserve; Who buildeth up at his own will and pleasure; and
destroyeth when he pleases, and is able to cast the soul down to hell. (D&C
63:2-4).
Commenting on this passage, Heber C. Kimball
wrote:
The potter tried to bring a lump
of clay into subjection, and he worked and tugged at it, but the clay was
rebellious and would not submit to the will of the potter and marred in his
hands. Then of course he had to cut it from the wheel and throw it into the
mill to be ground over, in order that it might become passive; after which he
takes it again and makes of it a vessel unto honor, out of the same lump that
was dishonored. . . . There may be ten thousand millions of men sent to hell,
because they dishonor themselves and will not be subject, and after that they
will be taken and made vessels unto honor, if they will become obedient. . . .
Can you find fault with that? (Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber C. Kimball. An
Apostle; The Father and Founder of the British Mission [Salt Lake City:
Juvenile Instructor Office, 1888], 475-76)
Further Reading
Critique of "The Christ Who Heals"
