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To: TheMonkeyBoy
Actually, my Bible says God loves everyone.

That is not true.

Malachi 1
2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.

44 posted on 10/04/2001 6:41:36 AM PDT by Lanman
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To: Lanman
John 3:16, "For God so loved the world...."

Also Ezekiel 18:23 -- "Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, says the Sovereign LORD, and not that they should turn from their wicked ways, and live?" Obviously, God doesn't hate the wicked AS PEOPLE, otherwise he WOULD take pleasure in their deaths.

The expression "Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated" is a Hebrew idiom meaning "Jacob have I favored more, Esau have I favored less."

Nothing more.

Grammy

106 posted on 10/04/2001 11:56:57 AM PDT by The Grammarian
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