Bible Questions Answered:
“If God is supposed to be a God of
love, how can he hate so?...”
Russel/ Nashville, Tennessee U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Psalm 7:11 KJV
God judgeth the righteous, and God
is angry with the wicked every day.
Psalm 11:5 KJV
The Lord trieth the righteous: but
the wicked and him that loveth violence His soul hateth.
Proverbs 8:36
KJV
But he that sinneth against Me
wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate Me love death.
Ezekiel 18:20
KJV
The soul that sinneth, it shall
die..."
Our God, hates sin,
Our God hates
spiritual death,
Our God, “the
prophet Habakkuk, stated”....
Habakkuk 1:13
NLT
But you are pure and cannot stand
the sight of evil..."
God's Anger:
Isaiah 1:4 NKJV
Alas, sinful nation,
A people laden with iniquity,
A brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken The Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One Of Israel,
They have turned away backward.
Isaiah 26:20
KJV
Go home, my people, and lock your
doors! Hide yourselves for a little while until The Lord’s anger
has passed.
Even though all of
this is true, unlike sinful men, our God, is not out of control with
His anger.
Galatians
5:22,23 NLT
22 But The Holy Spirit produces this
kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, and self-control.
There is no law against these things!
God's
Love;
Psalm 77:7-9 KJV
7 Will The Lord cast off for ever?
and will He be favorable no more?
8 Is His mercy clean gone for ever?
doth His promise fail for evermore?
9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious?
hath He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah.
Jeremiah 31:3
KJV
The Lord hath appeared of old unto
me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:
therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.
Jeremiah
32:38-42 KJV
38 And they shall be My people, and
I will be their God:
39 And I will give them one heart,
and one way, that they may fear Me for ever, for the good of them,
and of their children after them:
40 And I will make an everlasting
covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them
good; but I will put My fear in their hearts, that they shall not
depart from Me.
41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to
do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with My
whole heart and with My whole soul.
42 For thus saith The Lord; Like as
I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring
upon them all the good that I have promised them.
Hosea 2:19 NLT
I will make you my wife forever,
showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love and compassion.
Isaiah 54:7,8
NLT
7 “For a brief moment I abandoned
you, but with great compassion I will take you back.
8 In a burst of anger I turned My
face away for a little while. But with everlasting love I will
have compassion on you,” says The Lord, your Redeemer.
Isaiah 57:16-19
NLT
16 For I will not fight against you
forever; I will not always be angry. If I were, all people
would pass away— all the souls I have made.
17 I was angry, so I punished these
greedy people. I withdrew from them, but they kept going on their own
stubborn way.
18 I have seen what they do, but I
will heal them anyway! I will lead them. I will comfort those who
mourn,
19 bringing words of praise to their
lips. May they have abundant peace, both near and far,” says The
Lord, who heals them.
Yes, God is angry
with the wicked, yet God's love, is greater than His anger.
Psalm 30:5 KJV
For His anger endureth but a
moment; in His favor is Life: weeping may endure for a night, but
joy cometh in the morning.
Nahum 1:1-3 NLT
The Lord’s Anger against Nineveh
1 This message concerning Nineveh
came as a vision to Nahum, who lived in Elkosh.
2 The Lord is a jealous God, filled
with vengeance and rage.
He takes revenge on all who oppose
Him and continues to rage against His enemies!
3 The Lord is slow to get angry, but
His power is great, and He never lets the guilty go unpunished. He
displays His power in the whirlwind and the storm. The billowing
clouds are the dust beneath His feet.
Malachi 1:1-3
NLT The Lord’s Love for Israel – God's people
1 This is the message that The Lord
gave to Israel through the prophet Malachi.
2 “I have always loved you,”
says The Lord. But you retort, “Really? How have you loved us?”
And The Lord replies, “This is how I showed My love for you: I
loved your ancestor Jacob,
3 but I rejected his brother, Esau,
and devastated his hill country. I turned Esau’s inheritance into a
desert for jackals.”
By punishing people
for their sins, Our God does His best to try to stop them.
Jude 1:22,23 NLT
22 And you must show mercy to those
whose faith is wavering.
23 Rescue others by snatching them
from the flames of judgment. Show mercy to still others, but do so
with great caution, hating the sins that contaminate their lives.
II Peter 3:9 KJV
The Lord is not slack concerning His
promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering to
us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come
to repentance.
Prayer:
Nehemiah 9:17 KJV
"...but thou art a
God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of
great kindness..."
Psalm
86:5 KJV
For thou, Lord, art
good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that
call upon thee.
Psalm
130:7 KJV
"...hope in The
Lord: for with The Lord there is mercy, and with Him is plenteous
redemption.
Isaiah
1:18 KJV
Come now, and let us
reason together, saith The Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they
shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they
shall be as wool.
Isaiah
43:10,11 KJV
10 Ye are My witnesses,
saith The Lord, and My servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know
and believe Me, and understand that I am He: before Me there was no
God formed, neither shall there be after Me.
11 I, even I, am The
Lord; and beside Me there is no savior.
Isaiah
44:22,23 KJV
22 I have blotted out,
as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins:
return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee.
23 Sing, O ye heavens;
for The Lord hath done it..."
Isaiah
45:21,22,25 KJV
21 "...there is no
God else beside Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none beside Me.
22 Look unto Me, and be
ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none
else.
25 I, even I, am he
that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not
remember thy sins.
