Pretty harsh judgments from you I think, but I can respect your views.
God is to be feared, both reverently and, well, fearfully. To downplay this fear into a mere respect and nothing more is to decrease that very same respect. So you can't respect Him only and not fear Him in the sense of real fear. It's this fear of His condemnation and judgement that drew me to Him initially and I can be thankful for that. It's what caused me to realize I was a sinner before a God who operates His wrath on the children of disobedience. It's that same fear that showed me He does judge and make war against those who oppose Him. This is the highest respect for our King and our God, knowing He is perfect and holy and righteous in all that He does and is the only one capable of condemning us to hell in the end. Without that fear and recognition of my own transgressions, I would not have found Him, nor known His boundless love and forgiveness.
God hates. God judges. God makes war. God condemns. God operates in His wrath. These can't be disputed and to fear Him for what He is, the God of all things, is a healthy fear for a sinner lost in their transgressions, who by this fear become aware that they are sinners lost in their transgressions. They are then capable, by God's divine grace and gift, to turn from their sins and trust and rely on Him, because they then realize that He is the only way and nothing they can do will ever be enough to please Him or save themselves. By this very same fear, they confess He is God and King and submit to Him in utter despair and sorrow over their own fallen state. By this very same fear that leads them here, He lifts them up and puts His Spirit in them and causes them to walk in His statues and conforms them to the image of Christ with boundless love and patience and forgiveness.
You have every right I suppose to say I am struggling to understand this fear, but I think it's quite the contrary and would turn that back around on you and claim the same of you.
So you are saying that you were brought to repentance by God wrath, condemnation, contempt, hate and judgement against you!?!?!?
You need to search your heart and quickly.
The Bible tells us in Romans 2.4, that it is God's goodness that brings men unto repentance and not his wrath, anger or anything else you stated. so you obviously have been taught a doctrine, but are shallow in the word and How God saves us. We do not WAR with those who oppose God, we love them, just as Jesus showed us.
You are victim of a false doctrine, that believe it is God's anger that saves you, but the Bible clearly and plainly says otherwise....your theology/doctrine is at odds with the word of God an for that young brother, you better check yourself....
The verses you stand on are also sorely out of context and prove that you are deluded by Calvinist false teachings....
The Calvinist doctrine crumbles under Romans 2.1-4....Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
The Calvinist doctrine is destroyed by Romans 5.8-But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
You state you are saved directly opposite to what God's word states and that my friend is something you to seriously think about....
You are also not part of the old covenant, but a partaker in the new covenant which is the covenant of grace, not judgement.
This does not mean that God still hates SIN and needs us to repent, but he does it by grace and not by the law and not by your works and certainly not because he is angry with us or hates us, or has contempt or condemnation towards us....
He loved us so much that he sent his Son...If God were the God you suggest in this reply, then he would have killed Adam and Eve and destroyed the earth right then and there....
You are in serious error...