(09/01/2016) Must GOD Hate Sinners?

The present separation of Creator and Creation is in view, today.  While even death can not completely destroy the acceptance and divine love imparted to Creation, that there be no defilement of the Holy continues to require distance, perspective, restraint, and transformation.  Even more than condemnation, punishment, or sacrifice for sin, divine judgment centers upon correction, reconciliation, renewal, and the revelation of divine righteousness.  With the Creator, wrath against sin is not an emotion or feeling that comes and goes so much as it is a defining attribute like immortality and immutability that elevate Deity above all.  Thus, it is written:  Psalms 7:  10-13, King James Version (KJV):  10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.  11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.  12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.  13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.  A fighter at “Yahoo! Answers (Singapore)” using the ID “Sridhar” (Level 2 with 509 points, a member since July 24, 2006) posted the following:

Christians, would one of you clear my doubt below?

Someone just replied to me saying -
'God does not have a blanket of love covering everything. He covers those who repent.'
With the quotation -
“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.”
??Proverbs? ?6:16-19? ?KJV??

Dislike or Disapproval of such acts is understandable. But must one - least of all GOD - HATE the violators?

Hey, we humans have many failings: vanity, lying, ignorance, greed and jealousy to name a few. Must you hate another instead of pitying and correcting him/her? Anybody for forgiving them their trespasses?

I thought Christ was an advocate of forgiveness. Or am I mistaken here?

THE GOLDEN ARROW:  Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?  When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.  Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.  Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.  Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?  Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.  Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit:  for why will ye die, O house of Israel?  For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD:  wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.  (Ezekiel 18:  25-32, King James Version, KJV)

THE DOUBLE DAGGER:  Use Spirit From GOD? (08/15/2016); No Excuses For Judgment (07/26/2016); Divine Focus and Process (07/19/2016); Sin Must Be Personal (04/29/2016); The Strangeness of Divinity? (03/29/2016); GOD Lives Inside Us? (07/11/2014); Can the Word of GOD Be Altered? (07/12/2014)

“Sridhar”, emotions, feelings, and sentiment aside (such as anger, disgust, hate, loathing) divinity must be active against the operations of corruption (we say, decay, disintegration, rot), diffusion, evil (we say, arbitrary change, catastrophe, chaos, flux, upheaval), negation, and sin.  Many mature Christian believers agree that the fullness of divinity (we say, the GODhead) has been revealed as having active presence, coherence, directedness, integrity, person, and unity.  There is divine opposition to sin as an influence that may dominate awareness and self-will within created beings and living creatures.  Sin is no physical thing that exists or tangible object one may put in their pocket; yet, sin has direction, effect, and presence.  The fruit and product of sin is not only death, it is absolute nonexistence.  While sin is no substance or created thing put forth by GOD, the operations of sin oppose the continued existence of divine law (i.e., “the expressed will of GOD”), the Law Giver, our universe dependent upon order generated by sacred law, and the existence of all things.  To the living, sin appears to be natural, normal, and unavoidable.  Sin does not appear contrary, foreign, harmful, and strange.  Thus, provisions from GOD to expose the actual nature of sin include divine covenant, judgment, promise, repentance, the imparted Spirit (we say, the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Prophecy, the Spirit of Truth), and Jesus Christ as an incarnation of sin upon the cross.  Consider how some of this is stated using language from the Bible:

(1.)  Proverbs 28:  9, King James Version (KJV):  9 He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

(2.)  Ezekiel 18:  20-23, KJV:  20 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son:  the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.  21 But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.  22 All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him:  in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.  23 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD:  and not that he should return from his ways, and live?

(3.)  Romans 7:  9-14, KJV:  9 For I was alive without the law once:  but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.  10 And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.  11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.  12 Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.  13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.  14 For we know that the law is spiritual:  but I am carnal, sold under sin.

(4.)  2nd Corinthians 5:  17-21, KJV:  17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:  old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.  18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;  19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.  20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us:  we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.  21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

There is far more to be said, carefully examined, and spiritually apprehended.  (For example, (5.)  Romans 8:  5-9, KJV:  5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.  6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.  7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:  for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.  8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.  9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.)  Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful.  Be it unto you according to your faith.

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