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Subject: I hate that guy.

Author:
ak

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Date Posted: 07:56:06 03/27/02 Wed
In reply to: Frizzell 's message, "Can I get a witness?" on 07:28:21 03/27/02 Wed

"To fear the Lord is to hate evil." Thanks for the quote Yeager...A nice connection.

Here is where I come down on the hate topic...I agree that God is a hating God. He is a jealous God. He is angry.

I would also claim that in order to love, you must be able to hate as well. This is a matter of intensity. To the degree that you can hate, that is the degree that you will be able to love. To resurrect the cliche word of the 80's, both are instances of "passion".

Here is where the rub is for me...I agree that God hates, and I agree that we should try to be like God, but the problem that I see is how to do that when we have remnants of sin nature. How do we know that what we would hate is what God would hate? We don't have God's holy, perfect wrath. Be angry, but sin not. How do we hate without sinning?

I have a suggestion. Why does God tell us to postpone our revenge? Vengence is mine, the Lord says. My thought is that if we were to take our revenge now, we just wouldn't be all that good at it. (Maybe with the exception of Yeager) It would be incomplete, shallow. If we wait to take revenge, God will help us take it fully. This postponement of revenge, hatred, anger is so that it can be justified and compensated fully.

Another reason to wait, is that we will have better prudence as to what deserves hatred and what doesn't. This is my fear about our hatred discussion. So who do you hate? The ones that hate you? The homosexual? The liberal? The muslim? We need wisdom to know what is evil or we may make the mistake of misappropriating evil (see George W. Bush on the axis of evil). If we wait to make the evil judgement, we will be better able to discern.

My word for this is hopeful hatred. Revenge is something to anticipate and nuture, but not to take now.

ak

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