{"id":27,"date":"2008-02-15T08:29:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/archives\/27"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:22:13","slug":"does-god-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Does God Hate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s easy to reflect upon the popular cultures understanding of God as Love and find it hard to comprehend of a God who hates. <\/span>Popular Christian culture teaches us that God is Love and adds to this God loves everyone. <\/span>The most frequented bible passage cited to support this claim is:<\/p>\n

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John 3:16
\n16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. <\/span>(NASB95)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It seems clear from this passage that God loves everyone. <\/span>This is sadly not what the passage teaches. <\/span>In fact there is no passage in the Bible which qualifies as a direct statement of universal love for all people in the world. <\/span>If we read the entire context of the passage above we also read this:<\/p>\n

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John 3:14-21
\n14 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up; <\/span><\/span>15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life. <\/span><\/span>16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. <\/span><\/span>17 For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. <\/span><\/span>18 He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. <\/span><\/span>19 This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. <\/span><\/span>20 For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. <\/span><\/span>21 But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God. <\/span>(NASB95)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There is a fine line here. <\/span>God so loved the COSMOS, that is creation, more commonly called the world. <\/span>Today we might say the universe, but in a personal message, the universe only applies as far as we can ascertain it. <\/span>That is, in that we are able to measure and experience it, share it and live in it. <\/span>In this context the giving of His son bares far more than mere reflection upon the people of the creation, or the COSMOS.<\/p>\n

There is also the solemn reflection of not only those spoken of as he who does not believe, as being judged already, that is condemned. <\/span>The grammar here is in the perfect present tense, reflecting upon and integrating with the idea of the creation as a state of being which has no end. <\/span>Those who believe, the converted, the elect, these are and always will be free from judgment and the condemnation of God. <\/span>Those who do not believe, are judged and condemned already from the beginning, they were known and created as such and will remain as such until always. (Romans 9)<\/p>\n

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It’s easy to reflect upon the popular cultures understanding of God as Love and find it hard to comprehend of a God who hates. Popular Christian culture teaches us that God is Love and adds to this God loves everyone. The most frequented bible passage cited to support this claim is: John 3:16 16 For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":6301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,26,7,6,4],"tags":[88,20,661,17,658,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-27","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-commentary","8":"category-doctrine","9":"category-question","10":"category-reflection","11":"category-scripture","12":"tag-hate","13":"tag-hope","14":"tag-love","15":"tag-salvation","16":"tag-scripture","17":"tag-truth","18":"czr-hentry"},"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Carina1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sUY9-r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/6474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/words\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}