Perfect Hatred
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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As Christians, we are required to affirm the whole counsel of God — and that particularly includes those parts that the modern world would prefer to ignore, or even to condemn. We are told that love is a matter of permissiveness and that Christians must not — cannot — hate. But is that what Scripture says about the matter?
The numbers certainly tell a different story. For Scripture certainly speaks of love:
- αγαπη (‘love’) — 115, NT; 15, LXX
- αγαπαω (‘to love’) — 143, NT; 213, LXX
- αγαπησις (‘loving’) — 0, NT; 8, LXX
- αγαπητος (‘beloved’) — 61, NT; 17, LXX
but it just as certainly speaks of hate:
- μισεω (‘to hate’) — 40, NT; 143, LXX
- μισος (‘hate’) — 0, NT; 11, LXX
- μισητος (‘hateful, hated’) — 0, NT; 4 LXX
- εχθρα (‘enmity’) — 6, NT; 15, LXX
- εχθρος (‘hostile’) — 32, NT; 320, LXX
We dare not attempt to be more righteous than God, and we dare not call anything God does or commands wicked. “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” If God says to hate, then it is our duty to understand what we must hate, and (if possible) why.
He, who does not hate, does not love.
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See Also
- “Marquart on The Question of Procedure in Theological Controversies” {Be like this man.}
- “The Myth of “Righteous Anger” What the Bible says about Human Anger” {Not like this one.}
- “God’s Mandate for Righteous Anger” [PDF]
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . |
| 0:03.0 | . Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.4 | And I'm Woe. |
| 0:43.6 | He who is not angry, whereas he has caused to be sins. For unreasonable patience is the hotbed of many vices. |
| 0:51.3 | It fosters negligence and incites not only the wicked, but the good to do wrong. |
| 0:56.4 | St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople. |
| 1:00.0 | That's a quote that we chose to open with because it puts in context, both anger and hatred, |
| 1:05.5 | as aspects that are, they're a part of the Christian life that is seen properly as almost always sinful, |
| 1:13.6 | and it's always something to be concerned about. |
| 1:16.6 | Today's episode, we're talking about perfect hatred, which is the term that Scripture uses for it, |
| 1:22.6 | and we are talking about anger and how we are supposed to deal with it. |
| 1:33.5 | I want to make clear at the outset in this preface that this is not a continuation of the episode on lesser known doctrines like usury and head coverings and shaking the dust off your |
| 1:39.8 | feet. |
| 1:40.5 | We are not today talking about a doctrine of hatred. |
| 1:44.3 | In other words, this is not something that we are saying, |
| 1:47.1 | hey, the world needs more hatred and the church needs more hatred. |
| 1:50.9 | The reason that we're doing this episode in particular, |
| 1:53.9 | the reason we're devoting an entire episode to the topic of perfect hatred, |
| 1:58.3 | is that, well, I think everyone can agree that the world needs less hatred |
| 2:02.9 | and less anger. The question that is vital to Christians today is whether the correct amount |
| 2:10.9 | of hatred is zero. And the scriptural answer to that question is no. |
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