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 ...