God hates ALL evildoers?

Proverbs 8

13 The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.

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God hates acts of evil.

36 but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death.”

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Evildoers hate God.

Psalm 11:

5 The LORD tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

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The psalmist used poetic hyperbole. More specifically, God hates the wicked who are unrepentant.

Psalm 5:

4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. 5 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers.

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"all" was a hyperbole. More specifically, God hates unrepentant evildoers. Here comes the context:

9 For there is no truth in their mouth; their inmost self is destruction; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue. 10 Make them bear their guilt, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; because of the abundance of their transgressions cast them out, for they have rebelled against you.

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God hates the above kind of rebellious sinners.

The psalmists speak of God hates evildoers. However, if they repent, they will be okay. John 3:

16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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God loves sinners who repent but hates unrepentant sinners.

Laodicean60 said:

Since God hates unrepentant sinners should we?

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I wouldn't.

1. I am not God. I don't truly know who will be unrepentant to the end or not.

2. Loving the sinners is a better approach to convince them of Jesus (Jn 13:35).

Good question

Laodicean60 said:

I feel the last 30 years we've taken up the mantle to hate evil and thus the warfare between people of other beliefs.

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