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I am getting a strong impression that I won't be voted the BT Mr. Congeniality this year.
Good thing the Kingdom of God is not a democracy.
Ray wrote an article called
Why Does God Love You?In that article, Ray wrote that God hates both sin and sinners. Ray quoted 14 Scriptures to support that God hates sinners. I agree with those Scriptures. One of those Scriptures is:
If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, God's curse be upon him. 1 Cor. 16:22 Moffatt Translation
In Pierdut's first post above, he states that he is filled with hopelessness and rage and a lust for physical things that others have. Pierdut questions if the next life (the Resurrection) exists and he states that he hopes it doesn't.
Pierdut also says that either God does not exist, or doesn't care and takes pleasure out of his suffering.
The statements made by Pierdut are not of the Spirit of God, and thus he is not my brother.
I won't tolerate such statements made by people in my presence. I will speak against them. That's just the way it is.
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In my view, whatever believers opinions and beliefs about Gods Love are, they will fall short of explaining how good it really is, no matter how strong of an explination they give; those explinations, no matter how good they are, Gods Love will be far better and far more than they can explain. Conversely, in my view, no matter how a believer tries to explain God's hate, his hate will always be far less than what they try to explain and believe it is; his hate is in no manner greater than his Love. His hate for humans, is not human hate, and I don't see how any believer in God can properly explain or understand God's hate.
God is just different; his Love is different; his hate is different; his hate may contain charactheristics of Love? It may contain elements of Mercy and Grace, I don't think we really know? Its easy to quote scripture and say God hates, but I think its harder to correctly explain that hate. How is a human going to hate someone, and yet give them life, care for them, and make provisions for them, and ultimately save them? And yet still hate them? Well that is what God is doing and will do with his hate; that's a different kind of hate, in my view. Its not a condemning hate; its not a destructive hate; its not a hate that wipes out the future of the person, or the potential of the person; or the ultimate forgiveness of the person; because God will not always hate, he will eventually forgive.
Again in my view, hate is not a natural part of God; its unatural in him. I think he had to " Bring himself to do it;" In my understanding of certain scriptures like Job 40:10 " Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity; clothe " Yourself" with honor and Majesty." This seems to me that God " Did these things to himself"; so powerful that he can actually create parts of himself! Or do things to himself. Clothe himself; which is awful close to me seeing that he created parts of himself. Conversely this is how I think God came to hate things, he had to " Bring himself to do it." Oh sure, we humans gave him plenty of reason, but I still think its something he had to " Kind of make himself do." But this again is just my opinion;in Psalm 93:1 it again says that God " Clothed and Girded HIMSELF with Strength." Increased himself; one could say" created" those parts of himself?
God hateing humans, I think is just more to it than meets our understanding. On the one end, it can be motivating to a believer to do better, who wants God to hate them; yet on another end it may spell complette doom in the mind of an unbeliever if they think God hates them, and just sap all of their fadeing hope.
I don't think hate increases in God, nor is a perminent thing in him. I personally think he has to make himself do it.