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Yeager
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Date Posted: 13:55:37 03/26/02 Tue
Tim:
Incredible commentary. Interesting and fruitful discussion of "hate".
I was thinking of the implications of God's example to us to follow regarding hate and decided to expand on the use of "hate" in Scripture.
Psalm 36:1-3 says, "An oracle is within my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes. For in his own eyes he flatters himself too much to detect or hate his sin. The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and to do good".
Pslam 5:5 says, "The arrogant cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who do wrong".
Proverbs 8:13 says, "To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech".
Psalm 81:15 says, "Those who hate the Lord would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever".
Proverbs 9:8 says, "Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you".
Through these verses, I see the holiness involved with this fear of hatred that we should see. I am amazed, especially at myself, in the complacency of fearing the Lord regarding how incredible this hatred really is. Should we not be falling on our faces praising God and serving Him regarding this hatred that we have escaped?
It seems to me that there is an uneasiness in believing that God really could "hate" anything. Isn't God a loving God? How could He hate even the wicked? I think Tim has a point that in today's society, to say something dogmatically in any direction would raise an eyebrow. Hate? What did you say? That would be wrong to hate that. By the way, what were you talking about?
No, today in our society, we "say" that we accept almost anything as long as it doesn't rock the boat or make someone feel uncomfortable. After all, if I can be comfortable and you are comfortable, what's the harm; even if we have opposing viewpoints?
Well, obviously that is all well and good until something happens that infringes on my rights or beliefs (ex: a couple of planes come crashing into some buildings of mine). Now what do we do? Your beliefs just intruded on mine. What you thought was right, conflicts and harms, what I think is not right. The conclusion must be that there are some absolute truths. These truths have already been set up and are there for our protection, not to stiffle us. And if there are some things that are right and some things that are wrong, that would mean that we all are not pleasing and pursuing what is right according to God.
Yeager
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