Q&R: Reading Biblical Threats – Brad Jersak

Question: How do you read difficult passages in the Bible like "the weeping and gnashing of teeth" and the seemingly threatening passages in the Bible?  Response: I believe it's always essential that we start with Jesus' revelation of God is infinite Love and that Jesus' heart is to restore all things and all people through his victory over satan, sin and death through his life, death, resurrection, and ascension. The apostle Paul then anticipates Jesus' end game: the summing up of everyone in Jesus (Ephesians 1) and the final outcome where every knee bows, every tongue confesses, and every eye sees at the very last that Jesus is ...