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Yes, he loves everyone.
“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
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:8
“And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
God, and God in him.” 1 John 4:16
No, he hates some people.
“And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things,
and therefore I abhorred them.” Leviticus 20:23
“The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.” Psalms 5:5
“The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.” Psalms 11:5
“These six things doth the LORD hate ... A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.”
Proverbs 6:16, 19
“And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.” Malachi
1:3
“As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” Romans 9:13
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Explanation:
God loves the whole world, yet He hates sin. When a person continues a long time in a wicked path, God comes to hate that
person as well. The wrath against mankind is built upon this anger, or hatred, on sin and sinners.
So God is capable of both loving and hating. However, His love vastly outweighs His other emotions. That is why He sent
His son, Jesus: to give us vile, despicable, evil humans a chance to be reconciled, so that God will turn away His wrath.
If any person, described in the above verses as being hated, would turn from their wicked deeds to God in repentance, His
hatred would dissipate and he/she would be brought into a loving communion with Him. Just because God hates a person in a
certain way, it does not mean that He doesn’t also love them enough to try to bring them away from their destructive
paths.
God is a complex being; we should expect His emotions to be complex as well. Notwithstanding, if a person in a lifetime will
not turn to Jesus as Savior, to erase the debt of sin, God will not turn turn away His wrath and hatred; it will stay with
him/her for eternity.
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