The Great Evils of the 20th Century

In the Bible, those two are intertwined. God, letting humans destroy themselves is the expression of his anger. In other words, what he's saying is God handing people over three times over and it all leads up to the climax of the chapter in verse 32 there, which is death. It's all one organically connected whole. The moral degradation in the present is an anticipation of the ultimate degrading of humanness itself that is death. Death is not a tacked on punishment. It's the natural result or the natural end of people living their own way. And so this matters because otherwise we think of death as just an unrelated punishment. That was so many conversations ago when we talked about