Christians today don’t have a problem with God unveiling mercy on unworthy sinners as they do with God pouring out His wrath on deserving sinners. Both overarching themes in Jonah, the accusations in the theodicy, should be held up equally, or else one’s view of God is incorrectly tilted, as Jonah’s was. The ultimate act that resolved the tension between these two pillars of God’s character is found at the cross. Sinners, Ninevites, Jews, and Americans alike, are offered eternal, undeserved mercy since Jesus Christ suffered the just judgment of the Father for the sins of the world (Mark 10.45). Only God Himself could bear the worldwide weight of judgment for all the bloodguilt cities and sinners. The cross settles the tension of whether God
