5 The zboastful shall not astand before your eyes; you bhate all evildoers. 6 You destroy those who
speak clies; the Lord abhors dthe bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
speak clies; the Lord abhors dthe bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
It has been a popular and excepted view to say that: "God hates sin but loves sinners" I
myself have been guilty of falling for such a comfortable but inacurate view of God. But
the scriptures do not allow us the freedom to make God into the type of God that we think
He ought to be. The above passage allows no wiggle room. It says that He hates those who
do evil; that by the way is every unsaved, unregenerate soul.
Unlike humans God does not make a distincton between the person and the actions of that
person; if they lie then they are liars, if they steal they are thieves, if they harbor hatred
then they are murder's, if they lust in their hearts then they are adulterer's_Matthew 5_2
-28. And although God is love He is also just, therefore sin must either be dealt with
through faith in Christ or it will be dealt with by the fierce and unrelenting wrath of God
in hell! And so when one compares God's love towards His saints with that of the sinners,
the love experienced by sinners will seem like hatred rather than love.
The sinless life of Christ is applied to the lives of those who have faith in Christ and so
now God is able to love them perfectly because He no longer associates them with their
actions, rather they have been given the life associated with Christ. That being said if they
have experienced true conversion their lives will naturally begin to emulate that of their
Lord's; on the other hand if their is no change, it proves that they have not experienced
genuine and saving faith. God is holy and therefore cannot tollerate sin, God is just and
therefore He must punish sin. God's character requires that He be intensely disturbed and
agrivated by sin and everyone associated with sin. This goes against what we would like to
belllieve about God, and yet it is perfectly in line with scripture.
person; if they lie then they are liars, if they steal they are thieves, if they harbor hatred
then they are murder's, if they lust in their hearts then they are adulterer's_Matthew 5_2
-28. And although God is love He is also just, therefore sin must either be dealt with
through faith in Christ or it will be dealt with by the fierce and unrelenting wrath of God
in hell! And so when one compares God's love towards His saints with that of the sinners,
the love experienced by sinners will seem like hatred rather than love.
The sinless life of Christ is applied to the lives of those who have faith in Christ and so
now God is able to love them perfectly because He no longer associates them with their
actions, rather they have been given the life associated with Christ. That being said if they
have experienced true conversion their lives will naturally begin to emulate that of their
Lord's; on the other hand if their is no change, it proves that they have not experienced
genuine and saving faith. God is holy and therefore cannot tollerate sin, God is just and
therefore He must punish sin. God's character requires that He be intensely disturbed and
agrivated by sin and everyone associated with sin. This goes against what we would like to
belllieve about God, and yet it is perfectly in line with scripture.
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