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God’s soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

If you didn’t know that, then both you and your pastor have probably been neglecting God’s Word.

This topic has enormous theological weight.

If God’s soul does not hate the wicked, then is he righteous? What does it even mean to be righteous?

Does God then cherish every wicked person?

Is God not going to send anyone to hell? Or does God helplessly look on and suffer without taking action as he watches his beloved die—because he is unwilling to act?

Does God’s love or hate have a logical rationale? Or does God love some things apart from any reason to do so?

Are all people God’s children?

If we get these issues wrong, we will fail to understand the character of God. Also, we will start to think Scripture is contradicting itself all over the place.

Taken seriously, the idea that God does not hate anyone will lead to the elimination of moral standards and the elimination of the doctrines of hell and heaven and salvation. It will turn robust Christianity into mainline Christian liberalism.

The idea that God does not hate anyone also emasculates men by casting their virtues as toxic.

Conservatives who buy into this idea will have a hard time fighting against the overt liberals. Instead, they will call the wicked man “brother.”

A lot hangs on this one doctrine.

*arg!

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