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Sin keeps us from the fellowship God desires us to have with Him and harms us in some way. The wonderful thing about salvation is that God took a loathsome, sinful creature that He cannot stand to look upon, and has transformed that person into a trophy of His grace with whom He can now fellowship for eternity and call them His child (I John 3:1).Īnd a knowledge of the pigpen that God has brought us out of and the transformation that He is making in our lives should cause us to hate sin as much as He does and to do all that we can to avoid it as His children.įurther, we should also understand that when we become His children through faith in Christ, it doesn't make sin any less loathsome in His sight. Agape is universal, unconditional and persists despite a change in circumstances. It also doesn't depend on whether or not the object of your love will, or even can, love you back. And it's not based on what another has done or will do for the lover. Agape isn't based upon the character of the person being loved. It goes beyond emotions and seeks the highest good of the person being loved. The New Testament uses the term agape for God's love because it entails selflessly putting the needs of the other person before your own. "The wicked will be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God" (Psalm 9:17).Īt the same time, God is a God of love. Sin is actually ingrained into who we really are as human beings descended from Adam, of whom it was said:Īlso, our Lord cannot be who He is and leave sin or sinners unjudged and unpunished. While you can understand why the phrase is said about loving the sinner but hating the sin, it really isn't Scriptural and makes sin look more like a disease that we played no part in getting, something outside of us rather than being at the very center of our nature. For the LORD is righteous, he loves justice the upright will see his face" (Psalm 11:5-7).Īnd we cannot neglect the fact that fourteen times in the first fifty psalms alone we see that God hates evildoers and that His wrath is upon them. On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulfur a scorching wind will be their lot. "The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion. “The boastful shall not stand before your eyes you hate all evildoers, You destroy those who speak lies the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.”