If God is love how does HE hate?

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Well that’s slightly vague.

Care to elaborate on this hatred?
 
I Think the person means like ‘God hates sin’ and stuff like that
 
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I think you made a typo, good sir… That doesn’t make sense.
 
There are translation challenges.

Sometimes people use “Jacob have I loved, Easu have I hated”. In that case “hated” is a bad translation for a word that does not have a good English equivalent. A closer interpretation would be “Jacob have I loved, Esau have I loved less”.
 
God has created us with the capacity to both love and hate, and He made us in his image. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)

From this we know that God has the capacity to hate as well as love.
 
Well, I don’t know about that.

Sin and evil are the absence of good, not something in and of itself. Darkness is not something, but rather an absence of photons.

So, I don’t know if saying that God hates sin is correct…
 
It occurred to me when Jesus used the words, “whoever hates his life…”, could mean “turns his back on”? Life meaning worldly ways?
In the same way, God “turns His back on sin”?
 
I wondered also about this question. Turning your back on sin is a loving thing.
 
The devil and all his many demons - hate !

They love to deceive, confuse, corrupt - while hating your guts ! ! !

God is love. God is light, with no shadow of variance.
 
Not exactly, same as the verse that says one has to hate his father and mother, it means we have to love father and mother to a lesser degree than we love God.
 
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The Webster definition of hate is “an extreme aversion or dislike…” There is some thought that the opposite of love is not hate but rather apathy. The idea of God’s hatred of man’s sinfulness is pretty much wrapped up in the idea of “hate the sin, not the sinner.” I don’t think it is anywhere beyond the pale that one who loves another can have an aversion to some facet of their experience.
 
I was actually going to say this. Love and hate are not opposites when it comes to sentient beings. If you really think about it, hate comes from love. For example, when someone you care about breaks your heart and you feel as if you “hate” that person. It’s not really hate, it’s actually pain caused by not being able to realize the love you have. The opposite of love is apathy. When someone truly does not care about you in the least bit and doesn’t care what happens to you, that is the opposite of love.

Now, if we are talking about sin or doing things and that sort of thing, hate has a different meaning. When a parent hates that his child misbehaves, it’s not the child he is hating, it’s that the parent strongly disapproves of the actions. But think about it. Why does the parent hate those actions? Because he loves his child.
 
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