Does God hate?

[sadie2723]

Ok, so here is a question that I have been itching to ask. Does God really hate anyone?
It is all over the internet…God hates this, and God hates that.

I find nothing in the bible that indicates to me that “God hates fags” for example. For that matter, I do not find anything indicating that God hates anyone. Is God not love? I was always instructed that he was. Now I am not saying that God may not be disappointed with the actions of certain groups (homosexuals for example) but I do not think that he does not give them the opportunity to repent. After all, sin is not somethign that God likes, but reconciliation gives us the opportunity to confess and repent. The only thing that I find in the Bible or in the Church that would qualify as unforgivable is the denial of God.

This is one of those open ended questions. I just want to know what you all think on the subject.

Thanks for your comments.

Brad

 

[tdandh26]

God does not have emotions in the sense that humans understand them. Whenever an emotion is used to describe some aspect of God, it is done so to try and give us something to relate to. For example God is angry=Gods justice (or) God hates=God has forbidden.

But the way people use God today, it is unlikely that they have these things in mind. I rather suppose that they are trying to pass their ideas off by way of using God as a poster child.

 

[tjmiller]

There was an earlier thread on this: “Biblical dyslexia - does God hate”…

 

[Aaron_I]

God only hates Fred Phelps.

Just kidding. What should be mentioned; however, is that God is immutable as is his moral law. When Christians try to assert this moral law, people start calling it hate speech and ignore what we say because it offends them.

God doesn’t hate anyone, but he firmly corrects them and sometimes punishes them in the hopes of correcting them. This is no more than any decent parent would do.

 

[tjmiller]

Scripture tells us that God hates not only sin, but sinners.

We must understand what is meant by the term “hate” in its various biblical senses. For example, Christ says that we must hate our family members in order to be His disciples! In Ancient Semitic idiom, to hate can be merely to “regard in a lesser degree”, or “to prefer another to”, etc.
Cf. “Biblical Dyslexia” thread…