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1 | Does God hate people? Psalm 5:5 | Ps 5:5 | srbaegon | 139695 | ||
Hello andreaparker, Look at the context of the verse (from ESV): 4 For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. 5 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers. 6 You destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. Notice the descriptors: boastful, liars, bloodthirsty, deceitful. This is not your typical "man on the street" who sins without thinking. This is describing the one who who goes out of his way to do wickedness and is proud of it. That's who God hates. Steve |
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2 | Does God hate people? Psalm 5:5 | Ps 5:5 | hopalong | 216762 | ||
Dear Steve, are we not all guilty of boasting, lieing,and deciet? And worse than that...it is not merely the man on the street, but the man in the pew is guilty as well! Rock of Ages, cleft for me, let me hide myself in thee; let the water and the blood, from thy wounded side which flowed, be of sin the double cure; save from wrath and make me pure. Rom 7:15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. Rom 7:25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. HOPALONG |
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3 | Does God hate people? Psalm 5:5 | Ps 5:5 | srbaegon | 216822 | ||
Hello hopalong, We have a problem then. If we state that the evildoers or sinners in Psalm 5 are the same as believers who sin, sometimes grievously on occasion (see Psalm 51), then Scripture must be contradicting itself. More correctly, this needs to be understood in reference to the sin and trespass offerings in Leviticus. There the only sins that could be atoned were those done unintentionally. Psalm 5:5 refers to the one who sins with a "high hand" or arrogantly for whom there is no atoning sacrifice, frankly because he doesn't want one. Steve |
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4 | Does God hate people? Psalm 5:5 | Ps 5:5 | hopalong | 216840 | ||
The Alien Righteousness of Christ One of the most pressing questions ever asked comes from one of the ancient books of the Bible. Job asked, “How can a mortal [man] be righteous before God?” (Job 9:2). The apostle Paul found the answer in the gospel of Christ. After describing his impressive achievements as a rabbi, he related how he obtained the righteousness he needed. To his friends in the church at Philippi he wrote: I consider them [my attainments] rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith (Philippians 3:8-9). In the gospel Paul discovered alien righteousness, which means the righteousness of another—in this case, the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Jesus, the Son of God, is perfectly righteous. Of him God the Father said “This is my Son, with whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17). Jesus pleased the Father because of his sinless perfection—his flawless righteousness. By active obedience to God, Jesus met all the divine requirements. He therefore could dare his critics by asking, “Can any of you prove me guilty of sin?” (John 8:46). The sinless character of Christ made it appropriate for the apostle Peter to refer to him as a “lamb without spot or defect” (1 Peter 1:19). The righteousness of Christ is his by nature. It becomes an alien righteousness when sinners admit their failure to meet God’s demands and trust in Christ alone for forgiveness and eternal salvation. At that point the righteous God imputes, or accounts, the righteousness of his Son to the credit of believing sinners. Like Paul, at that instant, those who trust in Christ obtain the righteousness “which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith” (Philippians 3:9). To acquire the righteousness God demands, people must not look within themselves". Alien Righteousness, Humanity’s Greatest Need (Dr. James Edward McGoldrick) Hopalong |
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5 | Does God hate people? Psalm 5:5 | Ps 5:5 | hopalong | 216880 | ||
hI STEVE, i WAS HOPING YOU WOULD REPLY... HOPALONG |
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