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To: MarkBsnr

Does God hate sin?


5,906 posted on 09/11/2007 2:21:09 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Well, let’s examine that.

If God hates sin and he has created all humanity in order for them to sin, then obviously He hates mankind, too.

If God doesn’t hate sin, but judges dispassionately as to the the deeds of each human, then He is measuring each human by an objective measurement, then He is dispassionate about mankind.

If God stacks the deck in favour of mankind by sending His Only Begotten Son to die on the Cross so as to allow those of us who want to be saved, to be saved, then He loves us.

That darn ol’ Bible keeps talking about God loving all mankind. So inconvenient.

I would say that God uses sin as a metric to measure us by, as we would weigh something or see how tall it is. I’m not sure that ‘hate’ would exactly describe it.


5,924 posted on 09/11/2007 4:01:50 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (V. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae. R. Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto.)
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