"A Time to Love and a Time to Hate" - When Hatred Is Justified

What, though, if someone comes to know the wil of God but refuses to do i t?  That person is gaining, not God's love, but his disfavor. If he willingly practices the things that Jehovah hates, he incurs his hatred. For example, the Bible says: "Jehovah himself examines the righteous one as well as the wicked one, and anyone loving violence His soul certainly hates." ( Psalm 11:5) For such an unrepentant one there is no forgiveness, as the apostle Paul makes clear in his letter to the Hebrews:  "If we practice sin willfully after having  received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left, but there is a certain fearful expectation of judgment and there is a fiery jealousy thath  is going to consume those in oipposition." (Hebrews 10:26, 27) Why does a God of love take that position?

When a person practices (keeps doing)  a grave sin willfully, the wickedness can become so firmlyentrenched that there is no separating it from the person.  He may become depraved, incorrigibl, irreformable.  The Bible compares such a person to a leopard that cannot change its spots/  (Jeremiah 13:23)  Beyond repentance, the individual commites what the Bible  calls  "everlasting sin," for which there is no forgiveness. - MARK 3:29.

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