A Serious Warning

— A Question that is difficult: “does God really hate? If God is love, how can He hate?”

Yes, it might seem a contradiction – God-Father who is love can also hate, But that’s exactly this, what Bible says is true: God is love (1 John 4:8), and God hates (Hosea 9:15). God’s nature is love — He always does what is best for others—and He hates what is contrary to His nature — he hates exact that, what is contrary to love.
Nobody ought to be surprised to learn that God does hate some things. The Lord Jesus created us with the capacity to love and hate, and we acknowledge that hatred is sometimes justified — we naturally hate things that destroy what we love. This is part of our being created in the image of God. The fact that we are all tainted with sin means that our love and hatred are sometimes misplaced, but the existence of the sin nature doesn’t negate our God-given ability to love and hate. It is no contradiction for a human being to be able to love and hate, and neither is it a contradiction for God to be able to love and hate.
When the Bible does speak of God’s hatred, the object of His hatred is sin and wickedness. Among the things God hates are idolatry (5. Mose 12,31; 16,22), child sacrifice, sexual per-version (Leviticus 20:1–23), and those who do evil (Psalm 5,4–6; 11,5). Proverbs 6,16–19 lists seven things the Lord hates: pride, lying, murder, evil plots, those who love evil, false witnesses, and troublemakers. Notice that this passage does not include just things that God hates; it includes people as well. The reason is simple: sin cannot be separated from the sinner except by the forgiveness available in Christ alone. God hates lying, yes, but lying always involves a person — a lion, no, a liar — who chooses to lie. God cannot judge the lie without also judging the liar.
Scrupture clearly teaches: God loves the people of the world (John 3,16). God spared wicked Nineveh, bringing them to repentance (Jona 3). God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Hesekiel 18,32). He is patient to an extreme, “not wanting anyone to perish, but eve-ryone to come to repentance” (2nd Petrus 3,9). This is all proof of love—God wants what is best for His creation. At the same time, Psalm 5,5 says about God, “You hate all evildoers” . And Psalm 11,5, even harsher: “The wicked and all those who love violence, God hates them with a passion.”
Before a person repents and believes in the Lord Jesus Christ, he is the enemy of God (Colos-sians 1,21). Yet, even before he is saved, he is loved by God (Romans 5:8) — i.e., the holy God sacrificed his only begotten Son on his behalf.