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The ‘Wrath of God’ is like throwing a hammer … straight up – Brad Jersak
Brad and Dougie - Hammer throwing finals 1971 (re-enactment)
Note: the following parable is a teaser for my forthcoming
book, A More Christlike God, to be released May 2015.
The 'wrath of God' is like the hammer-throwing contest my
father warned me against as a child. 'Do not,' he said, 'throw hammers in the
air.' Apparently he saw this as a good warning in fatherly love. I saw it as a
challenge and a rule to be broken. My neighbour Dougie and I (perhaps 7 years
old at the time), each took our father's hammers and had a contest to see who
could throw his hammer higher. Straight up. Perhaps I won. Certainly Dougie
lost. For my hammer ...