(November 29, 2022 at 12:18 pm)tackattack Wrote: OT - “You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord,”
I don't see a lot of references to God hating people in the OT, care to point me in that direction? I mean a lot of animals and acts were detestable which is really intense dislike. I do grant that psalms does make a lot of assumptions on God's behalf toward that.
Well, he gave the Amalekites a pretty rough go of it, ditto the Philistines, the Ethiopians, the Syrians and - on at least one occasion - the Israelites. I think you have to have some degree of hate to slaughter tens of thousands of people and destroy their cities.
God was also very specific in at least one of his hatred - Esau.
Boru
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