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Does God Hate the sinner and the sin? Print E-mail
Written by Oshea Davis   
Saturday, 18 November 2006

          Yes He does. Like I always say, let the bible speak for itself. God not only hates the sin but also the sinner. To say other wise is a contradiction. For when God says He “loves” the righteous person them-self, He loves the righteous because they do righteous things. It is no-where recorded in the scripture that God only loves the saint’s deeds and not the saint! This is also the same when a sinner sins. God hates the sinner them-self because he does sinful things.

 

God commands us not to take vengeance on our enemies.

 

Yet God says He takes vengeance.

 

What does this mean? It means God, being the "I am who I am", is allowed to command us not to do things yet Himself allowed to do it.

 

In this case of hatred, He commands us not to hate people, yet it is explicit in scripture that He does Hate people themselves and not just there sins.

 

Proverbs 6:16,

 These six things the LORD hates… A heart that devises wicked plans… A false witness… One who sows discord

 

If you will notice the Lord hates not only the sin in this list in Proverbs, but also the LORD God points out the “people” who do these things and HATES them as well.

 

Psalm 11:5,

The LORD tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.”

 

Psalm 7:11,

God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day.”

 

The scripture is self-evidently clear on this issue. But just in case I will let the bible speak for its self some more. God not only hates but also says He will delight in killing the wicked people. 

 Deut 28:63,

So the LORD will delight over you to make you perish and destroy you.”-NASU

 

Revelation 19:1,

 "Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God."

 

Notice not just the "wrath” of God but the "Fierceness" of the "Wrath" of God.

 

If God's love for us is in its purest since unconditional, as some have so stated, then Christ died in vain because God would have loved us any way. That is the main difference between my opponents and myself. Because I say "God loves us unconditionally, but is based on the condition that Jesus died for our sins." God can only love us now because God murdered His Son, in our place, in order to take away our sin!

 

Ephesians 2:3,

Among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.”

 

What hope do we have then? 

 

Ephesians 2:3,

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)”

 

Therefore if any boasting if any rejoicing let it be done in the Name of our Great God and Savoir Jesus Christ. For who is like our God, Whom will you compare Him too; whom will you compare His mercy to?

 

 
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