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Saved from God's Wrath?

Did Jesus come  to Saved from Wrath of God?

1 Thessalonians 1:10
[10]And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us FROM THE WRATH to come.

Colossians 3:6
[6] For which things' sake THE WRATH OF GOD
COMETH on the children of disobedience:

When you understand God's wrath as some fury against the sinner then Jesus was smitten and stricken BY God on your stead  to satisfy his  justice which looks more like  resentments and grudge.  This same fury at last will be poured upon the sinners who reject God. Someone would wonder with me how freedom of choice operates in this ! You give me choices  to make  and claim that I am totally free to make my choice without external pressure to trim that choice , which then on earth would you be mad  at m my choices ? Where will you be offended  with me ?  It is from this actually that God is accused of sending his son to save us from himself.

One  Christian writer lays the matter down well:

"I have always been taught that the death of CHRIST RECONCILED GOD TO MAN;that ๐Ÿ‘‰ Christ died TO SATISFY GOD'S JUSTICE, and to appease Him..."

Let me make a brief comment. Don't we even sing that God's justice is satisfied to look upon him and pardon me? Sort of that God  had some great annoyance with  us that his heart will be soften up by cruel death of his son to set us free frown face of himself?

"๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ ...The idea has come into the Christian CHURCH FROM THE PAPACY, which in turn brought it FROM PAGANISM, in which the only idea of God was of a being whose WRATH MUST BE APPEASED BY A SACRIFICE..." -  PTUK September 21,  1893, page 386.7 - PTUK September 21,  1893, page 386.8

" The Father did not send the Son as one would send another on and unpleasant errand; neither did the Son go of Himself, IN ORDER TO APPEASE THE WRATH OF GOD, as if His WOUNDED FEELINGS DEMANDED a sacrifice. The Son is in the Father, and the Father is in the Son (John 14:10), and therefore the sacrifice of one is the sacrifice of the other. " PTUK September 7,  1893, page 353.3

What did they then save us from by the great price they both paid ? When men chose sin , what was the destiny of that Choice?That is the wrath from which we are saved.

"For The Wages OF Sin Is Death..." (Romans 6:23)

โ€œBut each one of us is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. Then, when desire has conceived, it GIVES BIRTH TO SIN; and
sin, WHEN IT IS FULL-GROWN, BRINGS FORTH DEATH.โ€ (James 1:14,15

"We reap destruction โ€œfrom the fleshโ€ because it is sin which naturally results in the death of the sinner" -  Kevin J. Mullins

Actually Christ's death does not save us but rather reconcile us.

Romans 5:10
[10]For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, BEING RECONCILED, we shall be saved by his life.

Reconciliation is bringing to 'at- one '.  This is resetting man's heart right. Then man is ready to accept the remedy offered by God.
In the state of enmity against God ( Romans 8:6-7) , we can't take God's offer for we consider him our enemy. If you're sick, and your great adversary who you perceive to be the source and cause of your miseries come with a glass of some concoctions, will your stretch forth your hand and take the drink ?  There is trust issues...  This trust issue makes man to run away from God as early as in Eden . Adam thinking God is the one who want to killing, ran away from the very being who they unknowingly need as their help.  God did  not give up on them, but he has been  working through ages to heal the minds. So it is difficult for God to save them from "wrath to come" , destruction. Which is death OF sin ... Without this healing. 
Maybe we need give others room to give us more thoughts.:

" Stop a moment, and think what reconciliation means. ๐Ÿ‘‰ The  EXISTENCE OF ENMITY is the only necessity for reconciliation. Where there is no enmity, THERE IS NO NECESSITY FOR RECONCILIATION. Man is by nature alienated from God; he is a rebel, full of enmity. THEREFORE MAN NEEDS TO BE RECONCILED- to have his enmity taken away. But  has no enmity in His being God. "God is love." Consequently there is no necessity for Him to be reconciled; there is no possibility of such a thing, for there can be no reconciliation where there has been no enmity. PTUK September 21,  1893, page 386.8
It is us who therefore need to be appeased , soothed and reconciled by Christ death. It is our ideas of God and his justice that demands all these.

Just to end my chain of thoughts by saying :

When God is Seen as furious and irritated with the sinner, and Christ was given to die on the sinner's stead , there you have erected altar of appeasement. Where Christ's death is seen as a means of appeasement an offended God. This is paganism in Christianity. Read  PK 685.2.
We will cover logical ends of peasement atonement. In another article.

Thank you...