Marnix schreef:Goed stuk Jongere. Ik heb sowieso het idee dat de stelling "God haat verworpenen" een vreemde formulering is. Alsof God mensen schept en gelijk zegt: Ik haat jou. God haat zonden, ongeloof. God is liefde en niet haat en liefde tegelijk, haat naar de een, liefde naar de ander, voordat we bestonden.
Hoe verklaar jij dan ?:
-Psalm 5:6
Gij haat alle werkers der ongerechtigheid
-Psalm 7:12
God is een rechtvaardige Rechter, en een God, Die te allen dage toornt.
-Psalm 11:5
De HEERE proeft den rechtvaardige; maar den goddeloze, en dien, die geweld liefheeft, haat Zijn ziel.
-Psalm 31:6
Ik haat degenen, die op valse ijdelheden acht nemen
-Psalm 92:8
Dat de goddelozen groeien als het kruid, en al de werkers der ongerechtigheid bloeien, opdat zij tot in der eeuwigheid verdelgd worden.
-Psalm 139:22
Ik haat hen met volkomen haat, tot vijanden zijn zij mij.
-Jeremia 9:12
Mijn erfenis is Mij geworden als een leeuw in het woud; zij heeft haar stem tegen Mij verheven, daarom heb Ik haar gehaat.
-Hosea 9:15
Al hun boosheid is te Gilgal, want daar heb Ik ze gehaat, om de boosheid van hun handelingen.
Iemand schreef ooit de volgende gedachte (helaas wel in het engels) rondom God's liefde en God's haat :
".....God is love" has been elevated to maxim status over and above any other attribute of God, which is a mistake, and has been used to downplay or utterly obliterate other attributes that people hate to bring up. Theologians, teachers, laymen all seem to have the gnostic notion in their head that the God of the Old Testament was some sort of un-loving demiurge and that God of the New Testament is a replacement, one who loves everyone equally and unconditionally, and thus we are all somehow "owed" Salvation because "God is love" to everyone equally and unconditionally. This is so far from the case it's scary to imagine the kind of darkness that pollutes their souls.
In Scripture, God says He is many things; jealous, love, righteous, vengeful, etc. Most of all, God says He is one thing above all else: God is "Holy, Holy, Holy." In Hebrew, repetition denotes emphasis. Where we, as English speakers, would say that God is the Most Holy, denoting the highest in the category of holiness, Hebrew says God is Holy, Holy, Holy in order to convey the maximum extent of God's being Holy. It is the only attribute repeated in reference to God in Scripture. God is not love, love, love nor "mercy, mercy, mercy. He is Holy, Holy, Holy, and the other attributes are only individual reflections of this.
Holy is what God is above all, and all of His attributes are subject to that description. Holy means set apart, or alien. God's love is Holy because it is perfect, completely unique. It would be perfect if He did not love us because He owes us no duty to love us. His Love is Holy in and of itself because He is perfect. Were He not to love us, He would still be perfect, and ergo, Holy.
God loves us not because His love is Holy or perfect, but because He has decided to. His Holiness is not at all dependant on us or any action toward us. Any action toward us is a communication of God's attributes, not a foundation for them.
God is love, mercy, faithfulness, and in order to communicate this fact to us, He decided to pick the most unlikely suspects and turn them into co-heirs with His own perfect Son.
God is wrath, just, and vengeful. He expresses this through the fact that it took the death of His own guiltless Son to expunge the debt of the rebels He decided to turn His love toward. In compounding fashion, God expresses this also through the wrath He will pour out on those rebels He has not chosen to love, those who have willfully hated Him. He will be just to punish them.
Note that none of these actions are foundations for any of God's attributes, but they are communications thereof. God's status as one who loves in a Holy way is therefore not dependant on doing anything at all toward us. It is because He is. The fact He has chosen some rebels to inherit His kingdom with His Son glorifies Him and expresses to us, in a small way, the measure of how Holy his love is; indeed His entire Person....."