Quote Source – Jeff Hilles

A Biblical Christian worldview perspective – 1 John 4:8 – Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Webster offers a broad definition of hate as “intense hostility and aversion usually deriving from fear, anger, or sense of injury”

Of course, Webster is not presenting a definition for an omnipotent and omniscient God when it includes the words “from fear”. God is not afraid of anything.

God does have “intense hostility” and “aversion” toward sin.

Proverbs 6:16-19 – There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

There is clearly an element of “anger, or a sense of injury” in His rejection of the sins we commit and His judgment of it.

Psalm 7:11 – God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day.

God loves mankind but, as a righteous judge, is grieved by our sin.

Ephesians 4:30 – And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Author – Jeff Hilles | BCWorldview.org 

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