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adjl posted...

And that makes a world of difference. Medicine in particular has identified numerous examples of "god's wrath" that were actually just some sort of pathogen associated with a behaviour (see: Pork and trichinosis; the rules of Kosher are pretty much just primitive food safety protocols), which can now be treated or prevented.

You're just proving your own ignorance here once again. God's wrath doesn't have to be a spectacular light show, or even something entirely beyond human comprehension. It can be those things, but that doesn't happen often. The reason you hear examples of those times where God's wrath was a huge light show is because of the very fact they don't happen often, not unlike how hearing about plane crashes on the news is more common than hearing about car crashes.

adjl posted...

That's what I said the first time, which you disagreed with. Make up your mind.

No, that's not quite what you said. You mentioned people trying to contextualize it. This implies that you think theologians go around saying that certain passages of the Bible are no longer relevant, and were only relevant in the time period in which they were written. That's not what theologians do.
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