[metmom]

Parents punish children they love for precisely that reason.

If you think that God sending people who reject Him to hell means that He doesn’t love them, then you might as well claim that parents who discipline their children don’t love them.

[imardmd1]

Dear MM, your argument here defies logic. The hell-bound people are children of the Devil, not God’s children. God is all-wise, omniscient, with foresight. That they wind up in the Lake of Fire is not a surprise to the All-Mighty. It is only a surprise to the one sentenced to it.

[imardmd1]

Please keep in view that the original contention which my response confronted was the common saying taken from Fantasywriter's Post #25:

>> "Christians must hate the sin but love the sinner, without exception." <<

My claim is that this is narrow and not a universal commandment, that even God hates the sin and the (unrepentant) sinner.

The thread seems to be straying away from this premise.