Rage or Wrath

Today's focus is on "fits of rage". I did a search on the phrase (NIV) and did you know that phrase is used only once in the NIV Bible? Does that mean that is the only time the Greek word is used? No. In fact the same Greek word is used several times. And that is what I am going to check out in today's study.
Here is the definition of the phrase "fits of rage":

Fits of Rage: thumos (pronounced: thoo-mos'):

• Passion (as if breathing hard): - fierceness, indignation, wrath.
• Passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again.
• Glow, ardour, the wine of passion, inflaming wine (which either drives the drinker mad or kills him with its strength).

Actually, in the NIV you will find the word "wrath" used a good deal instead of "fits of rage". This I can take to the English dictionary and get a good definition.

Wrath (noun):

• Strong, stern, or fierce anger; deeply resentful indignation; ire.
• Vengeance or punishment as the consequence of anger.
• Forceful, often vindictive anger
• Punishment or vengeance as a manifestation of anger; Divine retribution for sin.

What in the world is "ire"? I can't say that I've ever heard of that word...

Ire (noun):

• Intense anger; wrath.
• A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance.
• Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Wrath is one of the so called "7 deadly sins" along with lust, pride, gluttony, greed, sloth, and envy. I don't think it is just limited to seven. It should be expanded to all sixteen of these. After all, it is written that if any of these are pressent, there is no door pass inside. Heaven help us all.

Romans 2:1-16

You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you toward repentance?

But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God's wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God "will give to each person according to what he has done." To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For God does not show favoritism.

All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law, since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.) This will take place on the day when God will judge men's secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.

This was all that I read... I didn't comment on anything on Saturday.

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