Does God Hate His Enemies?

Question from Reader: According to the Bible, God hates and destroys the enemies of His chosen people. The Bible makes it clear where God has destroyed entire cities because of his hate of the people living there.

Modern Christians sometimes say, "God hates the sin--not the sinner", but that is a flowery cover and a lie since God does not destroy just the sin he hates, but also destroys the sinner.

There are almost endless examples of what God clearly disapproves of, and even across multiple cultures, it's clear that the entire concept of God has to do with hating those who do not follow him and then giving the right to kill to those who do. It's very confusing. Who or what does God hate?

Our Answer: Hate can only result from embracing fear. Hate is the result of not wanting to see how you are connected to that which you fear or do not understand. Hate exists because of how you interpret the past or what you fear may happen in the future.

None of those reactions apply to the personality of God because God is perfect love. Since perfect love casts out fear, God has no fear and knows not of hate and has nothing to do with anything even remotely associated with the idea.

All scripture and ideas where it shows God reacting out of fear, jealousy, hate, anger, etc, can only originate from the thoughts of fearful people. Their conclusions about God and how they believed God was either responsible or endorsed what had occurred, had nothing to do with God.

God is all about connection and knowing that there is no separation. For God to hate anything, he would then have to hate himself since nothing exists apart from him. We were created as children of God, and even though we appear to see ourselves as separate individuals, we cannot exist outside of God since nothing exists outside of God.

The physical world, which screams that we are in a separate place from God, is designed to prove to us that God is not in control, but this is simply because we have allowed ourselves to see things this way. We are spiritual beings dreaming of a physical and separate existence, but this is simply a grand distraction and has no eternal effect.

Nothing physical matters since nothing physical has lasting or eternal effects. Our eternal spirits are not affected by what happens here, so God has no reason to hate, be upset or even be concerned about what happens here. This illusion of reality will eventually go away when we all focus on returning to him by letting loose of any desire to be separate from Him. At that time, our 'dream' will conclude and we'll open our real eyes and become totally aware of our spiritual existence -- and this idea of a separate physical world will simply go away.

God cannot hate because there's no reason for him to be worried, therefore no reason for him to be fearful, therefore, there is nothing to seed the thought of hate in the first place. God is love and total connection to all things.