Divine retribution

The wrath of God is a subject in the image of God, especially the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In the scriptures of these religions, he is usually depicted as a supernatural intervention of God against sin, either in the sense of a sentence or a Auslieferns to their own desires. It is aimed at individuals or parts of humanity, so that the faithful believers or the survivors as the elect are.

Polytheistic religions

Judaism

Examples in the Jewish Torah include the Flood ( Genesis 6.9 to 8.22 ), the dispersion of the builders of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9 ), the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ( Genesis 18:20 - 21, from 19.23 to 28 ) and the ten plagues that for the persecution of the children of Israel ( Exodus, chapters 7-12 ) met the Egyptians. The biblical Israel itself stands between rejection and election.

Christianity

(Ephesians 5.6 John 3: 36; Romans 1:18;; Romans 12, 19) to the contents of faith in the Christian New Testament includes the warning of God's wrath. The Last Judgement is described among other things as a " day of wrath " (Rom 2:5). The Revelation of John According One final hour great wrath of God nor from (Revelation 14:19, Revelation 19:15).

In the Judeo- Christian context, there is this intra- religious and religious controversies critical both to the divine "justice" as well as the polar emotional image of God. In particular, radical preachers and fundamentalist religious groups, such as the Westboro Baptist Church see in large natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina signs of an angry God, and speak of a " sin not to enjoy it when God pours out his anger and revenge on America."

In contrast, others speak of it, that the wrath of God have with the redemptive act of Jesus come to an end. So formulated, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, 2007: The Apocalypse is not, as is often thought, the disturbing announcement of a catastrophic end for humanity, but the explanation of the failure of the infernal powers and the great proclamation of the mystery of Christ, and the salvation of history died and rose of the cosmos. (...) The Latin Christian tradition has learned from the Book of Revelation, that the wrath of God because of it and sang the only reason why is because it is told by its resolution and reversal by the love of the innocent Lamb who has sacrificed himself for our salvation.

Islam

The Koran speaks the first sura of the wrath of God as a distinguishing feature for the straight path of those whom God has bestowed favors, from the path of those who have fallen for the wrath of God and go astray. In particular, those who after they had believed, from the faith, God be drawn to anger and who, under Sura 16, Verse 106 " to expect an awful doom. "

Among other things, the Hamas Charter (Article 32 ) refers in its anti-Semitic positions under citation of Sura 8, verse 16 to the wrath of Allah, the incur all those who turn their backs on the struggle with the unbelievers.