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Does God Really Love Everyone?
God’s love does not stop God from also hating in righteous anger. This is the wrath of a holy and just God against sinners. While loving and full of grace and mercy, our God is a God of justice and righteousness.
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Does God Really Love Everyone?
God’s love does not stop God from also hating in righteous anger. This is the wrath of a holy and just God against sinners. While loving and full of grace and mercy, our God is a God of justice and righteousness.

God’s Love and God’s Hate
God’s love does not stop God from also hating in righteous anger. This is the wrath of a holy and just God against sinners. While loving and full of grace and mercy, our God is a God of justice and righteousness.Thus, it stands to reason that he would indeed hate evil and those who commit evil. We should expect nothing less from a just and holy God (Romans 2:5)
God desires all to repent of their sin and find righteousness in Christ. But, without Christ, the wicked remain unforgiven, and God will hate them “for their many sins, for they have rebelled” (Psalm 5:10).
Yet, at that very moment of saving faith in Christ, the wicked are removed from the kingdom of darkness and move into the kingdom of light (Colossians 1:13).
Indeed, God’s love reflects his mercy, and this mercy is found in his utmost patience with us. Rather than immediately punishing people for their sins, God wants that everyone should come to repentance (Matthew 5:45).
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead, he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. (2Peter 3:9)
We, humans, are incapable of perfect love or perfect hate. We are not God. His ways are higher than our ways, and his thoughts higher than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:9).
While we may be unable to understand it in this life, God is indeed capable of both perfect love and perfect hate.
He is God. God can hate a sinner and then, in love, forgive that sinner at the very moment of repentance and faith in Christ, regardless of what they have done.
God’s mercy does not mean that everyone will be saved. It does mean that everyone has the opportunity to be saved, a choice that is theirs to accept or reject. Sin, however, cannot and will not go unpunished forever. There will come a day of judgment and a day of God’s wrath.