Re: How Should We Respond to Homo***uality?

On Mar 31, 5:41 pm, Dave <dave_and_da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 27, 8:47 pm, Bren <BGK...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > B - Oh dear...the whole concept of "God hates" is evil to me.
>
> But God does hate. Consider:
>
> Deuteronomy 12:31 -- You shall not behave thus toward the LORD your
> God, for every abominable act which the LORD hates they have done for
....
> Deuteronomy 16:22 -- You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar
> which the LORD your God hates.
>
> Proverbs 6:16-19 -- There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes,
> seven which are an abomination to Him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
> And hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans,
....
> 14"I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have
> become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
....
> Isaiah 61:8 -- For I, the LORD, love justice, I hate robbery in the
....
> saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate."
....
> Zechariah 8:17 -- 'Also let none of you devise evil in your heart
> against another, and do not love perjury; for all these are what I
> hate,' declares the LORD.
....
> "Yet I have loved Jacob; but I have hated Esau, and I have made his
....
> Malachi 2:16 -- "For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of
....
 among the seven golden lampstands, says this: ... 6'Yet this you do
> have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

I assume that all the passages you quote are correctly translated as
"hate".  What we have here is not god hating anything - it is people
projecting their hatred onto god. The writer hates and so he is sure
god hates.

This is theological pathology. God is Love - not hate. Standing the
reality about god on its head will get us nowhere.

But, of course, it will not get you damned. Because god loves you even
if you hate and you imagine he hates.