When a Samaritan village rejected Jesus the disciples asked Jesus: "Do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?" Jesus rebuked them saying: "You do not know the manner of the spirit you are of. For the Son of man has not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." Luke 9:54-56*.
By this Jesus meant that God is not violent and destructive but gracious and forgiving. And that he, as God's messenger, was not an agent of punishment but of Salvation.
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