Does God hate people?

[freezerman2000]

God hates people, the way atheists hate people.

If you never stepped on His grave, you would never know how much.

Blanket statement...care to rephrase that?

 

[Gottservant]

Blanket statement...care to rephrase that?

It's just a fact, if you treat God like He doesn't exist, He says "Fine, I will act like I don't exist".

That's typical atheist behaviour: atheists say "You can't prove God exists, fine, I will act like he doesn't".

That's all I'm saying.

 

[freezerman2000]

It's just a fact, if you treat God like He doesn't exist, He says "Fine, I will act like I don't exist".

That's typical atheist behaviour: atheists say "You can't prove God exists, fine, I will act like he doesn't".

That's all I'm saying.

Just because atheists don't believe in God does not make them haters of men..some of my best freinds are atheists..and they certainly do not hate their fellow man.

 

[Gottservant]

You're kidding yourself.

What do they do for others that anyone wouldn't do?

 

[LittleLambofJesus]

It's just a fact, if you treat God like He doesn't exist, He says "Fine, I will act like I don't exist".

That's typical atheist behaviour: atheists say "You can't prove God exists, fine, I will act like he doesn't".

That's all I'm saying.

I don't think the OP was clear enough.
Can God hate both believers and unbeliever?
Another words, can God actually hate Christians as well as other religions and non-religions......

Mic 3:2
You who hate good and love evil!
Who strip the skin from My people,
And the flesh from their bones;

Rev 17:16
“And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the Harlot, make Her desolate and naked,
eat Her flesh and burn Her with fire.

The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD

The Romans having become masters of the lower City, set it on fire.
The Jews now fled to the higher, from whence, their pride and insolence yet unabated, they continued to exasperate their enemies and even appeared to view the burning of the town below them with tokens of pleasure...............


.......The magnificent Temple that Herod had built was completely destroyed as the fires raged inside and out.
These fires were so hot that the gold fittings, and the gold gilding inside and on it's outside walls melted and ran into the cracks between and in the stones...........




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[Gottservant]

God can hate anyone.

If He hates you, does He still like you?

If He loves you, does He still care for you?

That's what you need to ask.

 

[Targaryen]

God can hate anyone.

If He hates you, does He still like you?

If He loves you, does He still care for you?

That's what you need to ask.

Juvenile theology....not surprising given the background.

 

[freezerman2000]

You're kidding yourself.

What do they do for others that anyone wouldn't do?

Gave me food for my family tonight..paid for out of their own pocket..
You are the one kidding yourself.

 

[Jipsah]

God does not send people to hell.

Sure He does. No one chooses to be tortured for all eternity. And apart from that, it's God Who put hell there in the first place, and Who made it the default destination for everyone who isn't a Christian. God could have chosen to annihilate unbelievers, or send them to a celestial penitentiary/mental hospital until they reformed, or any number of other things. But He didn't. He sends them to hell to be roasted for all eternity. That'll teach 'em!

 

[freezerman2000]

God can hate anyone.

If He hates you, does He still like you?

If He loves you, does He still care for you?

That's what you need to ask.

BTW,He hates the sin,not the sinner...

 

[ChristsSoldier115]

How does a creature such as us, with all our limits think we can even come close to understand something that does not have any?

 

[Strong in Him]

It's just a fact, if you treat God like He doesn't exist, He says "Fine, I will act like I don't exist".

That's typical atheist behaviour: atheists say "You can't prove God exists, fine, I will act like he doesn't".

That's all I'm saying.

Really?? So God is like some divine Tinkerbell; he only is if someone believes in him and is somehow diminished if they don't?

My belief is that God is, as someone has said, like the hound of heaven; constantly pursuing people, waiting and longing for them to turn to him, and maybe sending things to grab their attention and cause them to cry out to him.

 

[Mama Kidogo]

Sure He does. No one chooses to be tortured for all eternity. And apart from that, it's God Who put hell there in the first place, and Who made it the default destination for everyone who isn't a Christian. God could have chosen to annihilate unbelievers, or send them to a celestial penitentiary/mental hospital until they reformed, or any number of other things. But He didn't. He sends them to hell to be roasted for all eternity. That'll teach 'em!

The Western view of hell is quite bazaar. Kind of Like Miami Beach but less humid and a tad more hot. A place where God's not omnipresent. Imagine that.

i suppose God's love being as a consuming fire means nothing.

 

[FredVB]

Yahweh God is Creator of all creation, and being existence that is cause to all else existing, being necessary, God is not limited. God loves his creatures and especially those made in God's image, and there is no limit to that love. Each is loved by God. Just as much, without limit and in total justice which is defined by God, God hates sin, all of it. So expressions of hate in the revelation about Yahweh are relative, those repentant of life with sin may be joined in inclusion with God's people, those who show no responsiveness to anything of God, as it was in the case of Esau, are hated relative to those counted with God's people. But God never desired any to perish, all, even Esau, were given opportunity to turn and repent, seeking God's ways. Hell revealed God's absolute justice which is appropriate for unrepentant sinners, who with their determination remain apart from Christ, who came to deliver people from that. The imagery shown for it represents eternal misery, but it isnt torture, and is not specifically what people imagine when they speak of hell.

 

[brinny]

Does God hate people? What are your thoughts?

Interesting question. Just wonderin'....how do you reconcile your question with this verse?

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." ~John 3:16

Thank you kindly.

 

[freezerman2000]

Interesting question. Just wonderin'....how do you reconcile your question with this verse?

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." ~John 3:16

Thank you kindly.

Hey hon..also this.God hates the sin,not the sinner.

 

[Timothew]

Hey hon..also this.God hates the sin,not the sinner.

Yes, God loves the sinner which is why He rescues him from sin and death.

 

[FredVB]

Yahweh God as Creator loves all, and gives opportunity, that any sinner can respond to God repenting and seeking God's way, which will happen through Christ. The name does not have to be already known, but the plan of salvation will happen. Those who won't respond that way which God made available at great cost will receive what is fair for them in eternity. The way that was provided is narrow.

 

[sunshineforJesus]

No,He has love for all of us even the worst sinner ever.

 

[Strong in Him]

No,He has love for all of us even the worst sinner ever.

Well said.