Does God love everyone? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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Yes, he loves everyone.

John 3:16 View context

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

1 John 4:8 View context

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1 John 4:16 View context

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

No, he hates some people.

Leviticus 20:23 View context

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Psalm 5:5 View context

The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

Psalm 11:5 View context

The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Proverbs 6:16 View context

These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:

Hosea 9:15 View context

All their wickedness [is] in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes [are] revolters.

Malachi 1:3 View context

And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

Romans 9:13 View context

As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.