The language of judgment, wrath, and punishment My quotation from Alan Mann, cited earlier, stated that the cross is concerned “with the restoration of a mutual, undistorted, unpolluted divine/human relationship, and not with the appeasing of a God angered by the misdeeds of his creatures.” The question is: Why does this divine/human relationship need to be restored if it is not because God is angered by the misdeeds of his creatures? How else are relationships broken? Why was the death of Christ