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Jump on my choice of words all you like, Kolo, but jump also on the writers of Scripture who, under the direct inspiration of God, used the very words you seem to reject. Do me a favor, look up the Hebrew and Greek words used in the OT and the NT for the word "hate", "hated" and "hatred". I did not write the translations but I certainly can read them.

The more I read the EO believer's posts, the more I realize how right the Reformers were in rejecting both East and West so-called orthodoxy.

Here's a random bit of Orthodoxy's basis (there's more) for what we believe about God and love and hatred. You may find it familiar.

"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'. But I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also. If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also. And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away. You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy'. But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. That you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect." [Matthew 5:38-48].

Christ clearly demonstrates that whatever may have been said in the past, He is now teaching something new. The Incarnation changed everything. Among other things, now mankind had a "mind" with which to better understand God. If we are to become like God, to be His sons, we are to emulate Him as Christ tells us He really is and we shall be perfect and it would appear that what the perfect person displays, bb, is nothing more or less than love...and so that person has fulfilled his or her created purpose, to be not only the image of God, but also His likeness.