The trouble with God hating sinners is the assumption that God chose to hate each individual person because of their sin.

God is infinitely perfect and just. We can see this by God’s wholeness and holiness. He, by nature of being perfect in pureness and omnipresent, omnipotent, and embodying the maximum “good” of creation, hates evil by His nature. It is in the nature of God to dislike evil to the maximum of potentiality, even if He does choose to mediate the cause of such evil through Christ.

“For God so Loved the World”

John 3:15-17 has less to do with God’s state of being as it does His intentions on how to remedy the current state of His creation. For example, we see in John 3:17 that He did not send Christ to condemn the world, but we know that because the world is already condemned in its current state (these are the following verses of John:18-21), the world is condemned because they are not believing in Christ, the state of which brings about reconciliation with God, receiving the Holy Spirit, and starting a new life of Spirit and not flesh.

John 12:42-50 also helps with this thought. God’s word will judge people on that Day and this word continues to be “on” people outside of Christ.

How God Hates

We can see that God knows how much sin hurts others, along with the person sinning, and that His hatred for sin and what it does to creation is just and good. Hating on earth, by mere mortals, has a personal and selfish nature to it, as one generally is thinking of what they will lose, or what they deem valuable will lose, at the cause something they hate.

God’s love is not selfish, although because He is purely good and the best thing for us, knowing the best for us, His hatred is also good and not selfish in a way we think it but selfish in a way that is good for not only the one He hates but all other things in existence as well. Thinking of God’s hatred in this way helps us to trust in God, knowing our feelings and mindset, although similar to His, is only limited.

When we start thinking of how grand God’s abilities are, we can see the glory in His ways.

God bless!!