Does God hate sinners? Listen closely to Psalm 5:5-6: “The arrogant cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who do wrong. You destroy those who tell lies; bloodthirsty and deceitful men the LORD abhors.” And this is not an isolated statement in the Bible. Fourteen times in the first fifty psalms alone we read of God’s hatred toward the sinner, his wrath toward the liar, and so on. In John 3—that chapter where we have one of the most famous verses about God’s love (John 3:16: “God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
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