There is a meaningful difference between our way to discipline our children and God's.

We do not control events the way He does. Because of our limitations we need to create model situations to illustrate our children the possible outcome of their acts. We do not want that the real situation teaches our children instead (they could not make it out of it).

The wages of sin is in fact punishment because it has not other purpose than extermination (it is a cause/effect phenomenon). But it is not God that brings punishment. God uses that natural punishment and converts it into disciplinary situations.

There are two methods of reading the bible:

• Having in mind the real author (the Spirit)
• or paying too much attention to the human instrument and his peculiarities (culture, education, time).

If we keep in mind the Inspirer, we will try to trace the thread started by the human writer and this thread should continue in some other place. If you can' trace that thread in other books it is very probable that the line of thought was human. The divine statement always connects to the rest of the message in the whole book because it transcends time and culture.

• Nothing Happens In The Universe Without God's Permission