Greetings Dear Reader,
I am going to begin with a clear statement of the antithesis
of my topic. You know that I focus on
the love of Christ for everyone. Jesus’
best friend, John relates this to us in connection to an explanation of who Christ
is. First John 1:7-12
7 Dear friends, let us love
one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of
God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love
does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is
how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the
world that we might live through him. 10 This is
love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an
atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear
friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No
one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his
love is made complete in us.
What I want to focus on is that the essence of God is
love. If we are clear that this is true,
then it begs a question that I am going to ponder for a few days. That question is, how do I reconcile God’s
hatred with his essence? There are
things that the Father and by equity, Jesus truly hates. What are those things and how do we reconcile
them with the truth that God is love?
Please understand that there will be a Scandalon in this discussion. The truth of the things that God hates leads
us to a stumbling stone and will sometimes offend us. Remember Dear Reader that I pursue this
thinking so that I understand Christ and can follow him more fully. There is a paradox here that we must embrace
to make our way along the path. It is
this, the God of the Universe whose essence is love must hate some things in
order to be God; in order to live out the love that is that essence.
I would also be clear, as we endeavor to walk through this,
that there are no humans, past, present, or future, that God hates. We are not ever commanded to hate any
humans. There are actions that God hates
and I will consider some of those as we walk through this. If we are going to hold to the truth that God
is love, we must define it in terms that he uses instead of what fits the world
we wish we had.
Please ponder these things with me. I value your thoughts and questions. I love you, Dear Reader, and our company on
this journey enriches it daily. Feel
free to share this with others.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every
writer who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a
homeowner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure
store.”
(͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Every human story is part of the great story that leads
to the Father getting everything back to Good.
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