Is God a vengeful God?

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Yeah I vaguely recalled that. But I reckon it was used in a disrespect way. I mean if you look up the trailer of chilling adventures of sabrina it will show you how dark they going. Just amazed me 10 years ago no one would of gotten away with this.
 
i think sometimes, even “death” at the hands of God is mercy. The bible nowhere states that because the Egyptian babies died that way, their souls would go to hell.
But if on judgment day, the Lord shows mercy to these souls for “they knew not what they did”, would He accord the same to the Israelites souls when they too die, or to us, the “new Israel”, who have known His Son ?
What may appear to us now as unjust may be mercy or an “early purgatory” and then again, those who appear now to be on the “better side of life”, may have more to account for and more “purging time” to serve for a misuse of the chances they have, the chances those Egyptian babies, aborted babes, miscarriage babes did not have.
His ways our not ours. An early death may sometimes be mercy, after all, we all are pilgrims here and the real living comes after.
 
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I would say clearly yes, God is vengeful. We take revenge when we do justice to ourselves.
God in judgment, will do justice himself, so he will take revenge.
 
God’s justice is balanced wit his mercy: ‘Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.’ - Isaiah 30:18
 
@Zandy, the Plague on the Firstborn was a direct punishment on the Egyptians for the slaughter of Jewish baby boys. At any time, Pharaoh could have agreed obeyed the One True God’s orders to let the Hebrews go. At a certain point, his heart became hardened – as a result of mortal sin. Pharaoh brought the plague on the first born, not God. Divine Justice and Mercy were balanced. Once again, after witnessing the miracle of the splitting of the sea, Pharaoh ignored God’s power and sent his troops into the sea to follow the Hebrews. Pharaoh sent those men to their deaths, not God.
 
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