"My friend Penny’s dad says he thinks God was angry for a while after
the Fall, then got over it, sent His Son, and now is pretty well
adjusted and forgiving. And of course I don’t think that is exactly how
it is, but I can understand why Penny’s dad would read the Bible this
way. But my other friend John MacMurray says that every time he gives
the Bible to a person to read for the first time, even if they don’t
agree with it, they see God as a Person who is incredibly patient with
humanity. John pointed out that it takes God hundreds of years to
finally get angry enough to lay any sort of punishment on His enemies.
He’s like France in that way."
