Tom, quoting all the familiar passages from DA addresses the what but not the how. My question pertains to how the loving traits and attributes of God's character causes sinners to suffer and die. What physical mechanics are at work?
Trying to understand the physical mechanics of what happens I don't think is very beneficial.
For example, please explain to me how you think "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance" causes sinners to suffer and die.
The glory of God will destroy the wicked. The glory of God is His character. His character is "love, joy, peace, etc."
"Only the pure in heart could abide in His presence." Are you suggesting this insight explains how and why the loving traits and attributes of Jesus' character caused sinners to suffer and die?
No. Please look at the question you asked and how I answered that question in quoting this reference.
"Christ suffered the death of the wicked, but the fire involved is not the fire we think of, like one you can light with a match, but the consuming fire which is God when He comes in contact with sin." How will the loving traits and attributes of God's character cause sinners to suffer and die?
It looks to me like you're asking the wrong question. What's the right question? "How does sin cause sinners to suffer and die?"
Why doesn't it cause Satan to suffer and die when he's in the presence of God?
Is Satan in the presence of God?
We know that if God left Satan to reap the full result of his sin he would perish, because death is the inevitable result of sin. God doesn't leave Satan to his fate until the judgment.
How does God prevent His character from killing sinners?
His glory is shrouded.
How does He prevent sin from killing sinners?
By His grace.
PS - Please refrain from quoting the passages that say it will happen. Please post passages that address my questions. Thank you.
The same passages which say it will happen answer your questions. For example:
But wherever men came before God while willfully cherishing evil, they were destroyed. At the second advent of Christ the wicked shall be consumed "with the Spirit of His mouth," and destroyed "with the brightness of His coming." 2 Thess. 2:8. The light of the glory of God, which imparts life to the righteous, will slay the wicked.
[quote] In all who submit to His power the Spirit of God will consume sin. But if men cling to sin, they become identified with it. Then the glory of God, which destroys sin, must destroy them. Jacob, after his night of wrestling with the Angel, exclaimed, "I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." Gen. 32: 30.
Jacob had been guilty of a great sin in his conduct toward Esau; but he had repented. In the time of John the Baptist, Christ was about to appear as the revealer of the character of God. His very presence would make manifest to men their sin. Only as they were willing to be purged from sin could they enter into fellowship with Him. Only the pure in heart could abide in His presence. (DA 107, 108)
The principles involved are right here.
