Subject: A God who hates

From: Rick Reinckens <Rick@GodOnThe.Net>

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:20:53 -0600
To: John Uknown

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From: John Uknown
Date: Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:44 PM
Subject: PLEASE CHANGE ONE THING FOR EVERYONE'S SAKE
To: Webmaster@godonthe.net

John Uknown wrote:;ZĞŐĂƌĚŝŶŐƐŽŵĞƚŚŝŶŐŽŶǁǁǁ͘'ŽĚKŶdŚĞ͘EĞƚͿ

Půease change the word "HATE" To "dislike's intensely" I am preƩy sure "GOD" is "LOVE" and
does not HATE, but finds some of the things we do nothing short of disgusƟng.

John,

Apparently you have the God of the Bible confused with some poliƟcally-correct New Age god.

Rick Reinckens, webmaster

www.GodOnThe.Net
www.WhatTheBibleTeaches.com

TranslaƟon used: New King James Version

You can check the accuracy of the translaƟons below at www.BlueLeƩerBible.org, which has the
original Hebrew and Greek texts and extensive concordances showing the various English words
used to translate what is a single root word in Hebrew or Greek.

hate: Synonyms: abhor, loathe, despise, detest, abominable despicable, detestable, loathesome,
anathema

Verb forms checked:

hate, hates, hated, haƟng
abhor, abhors, abhorred, abhorring
loathe, loathes, loathed, loathing
despise, despises, despised, despising
detest, detests, detested, detesƟng

Deuteronomy 12:31 You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abominaƟon
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to the LORD which He hates they have done to their gods [i.e., as worship to their gods]; for they
burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

Deuteronomy 16:22 You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

Psalms 5:5 The boasƞul shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity.

Psalms 5:6 You shall destroy those who speak falsehood; The LORD abhors the bloodthirsty and
deceiƞul man.

Psalms 11:5 The LORD tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul
hates.

Psalms 45:7 You love righteousness and hate wickedness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed
You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions. (This Psalm is describing Jesus.)

Psalms 53:5 There they are in great fear Where no fear was, For God has scaƩered the bones of
him who encamps against you; You have put them to shame, Because God has despised them.

Psalm 75:58 For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy
with their carved images. 59 When God heard this, He was furious, And greatly abhorred Israel, 60
So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men, 61 And delivered
His strength into capƟvity, And His glory into the enemy's hand.

Psalms 106:40 Therefore the wrath of the LORD was kindled against His people, So that He
abhorred His own inheritance.

Proverbs 6:16 These six things the LORD hates, Yes, seven are an abominaƟon to Him:

Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the
perverse mouth I hate. (Although the speaker is idenƟfied as "wisdom", in several Old Testament
passages when "wisdom" is personified it is referring to the Word of God--Jesus.)

Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the LORD
will fall there.

Isaiah 1:14 Your New Moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; They are a trouble to Me, I
am weary of bearing them.

Jeremiah 12:8 My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest; It cries out against Me; Therefore I
have hated it.

Jeremiah 44:4 However I have sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending
them, saying, "Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!"

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Hosea 9:15 " All their wickedness is in Gilgal, For there I hated them. Because of the evil of their
deeds I will drive them from My house; I will love them no more. All their princes are rebellious.

Amos 5:21 " I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.

Amos 6:8 The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself, The LORD God of hosts says: " I abhor the pride of
Jacob, And hate his palaces; Therefore I will deliver up the city And all that is in it."

Malachi 1:3 But Esau I have hated, And laid waste his mountains and his heritage For the jackals
of the wilderness."

Malachi 2:16 " For the LORD God of Israel says That He hates divorce, For it covers one's garment
with violence," Says the LORD of hosts. " Therefore take heed to your spirit, That you do not deal
treacherously."

RevelaƟon 2:6 But this you have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

RevelaƟon 2:15 Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I
hate.

LeviƟcus 20:23 And you shall not walk in the statutes of the naƟon which I am casƟng out before
you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.

LeviƟcus 26:30 I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses
on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.

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