No, God doesn't just hate sin...he also hates sinners.
The question, though, is "does God love everyone?", not "does God hate some"? So, you are assuming that God can not love those He hates. If God's hate and love preclude one another, how can God *BE* love (1 John 4:8) and at the same time hate some people? God would have to stop being love at some times in order to hate some. Did John mean to actually say, "God is sometimes love"?No, God doesn't just hate sin...he also hates sinners.
Punishment and discipline aren’t the same.According to Hebrews 12, I would say that is a correct assessment....
Hebrews 12:
5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, ‘My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,
6 for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;’
7 if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten?
8 and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons.
9 Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising [us], and we were reverencing [them]; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?
God does love everyone in a sense. He cares for all his creatures and his mercy is over all that he has made. But he loves his church in a unique sense in which he does not love all people.
LLoJ goes to the web to find out:I think you are confusing discipline with punishment.
While I agree with that part,God is Love. So the answer is yes.
that seems problematic, unless you are claiming to be a universalist, and hell is only temporary.Hell is proof: He sees the gold in us, and is willing to put us through the fire so that we can come out....pure gold.
Since Hell exists, the answer is obviously No.
Simple question with profound theological and philosophical underpinnings, but I am going to poll this closed-ended. If you have more to add, please comment below.
I Dont know the universalist doctrine, so i cant claim to be with them....nor do i wish to be a follower of doctrine, but a follower of Christ. The best ones to intelligently discuss the temporality of the physical hell...are those who have been there and back.While I agree with that part,
that seems problematic, unless you are claiming to be a universalist, and hell is only temporary.
Simple question with profound theological and philosophical underpinnings, but I am going to poll this closed-ended. If you have more to add, please comment below.
John 3:16 for God so loves the world
Another verse I can't remember the exact verse says that God takes no pleasure in sending people to hell. The choice is ours to accept Christ and live or reject Christ and die.
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