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Does God hate the sin but love the sinner?

A response to Stuart’s assertion that God’s wrath and hatred is exclusively reserved for sins, rather than sinners.

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Southgate’s “only way” the Wrong Way: God’s Omnipotence and Benevolence in the Problem of Natural Evil

Christopher Southgate, author of The Groaning of Creation, denies a cosmic fall on the grounds that pain and predation are instrumental in the Darwinian process for producing values, such as consciousness, rationality and the “range, beauty, complexity, and diversity of creatures the Earth has produced.” He asserts that this was the “only way” that God could have achieved this. Stuart argues that this is incoherent if God is omnipotent, and offer a preferable argument that preserves God’s omnipotence.

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Does God hate the sin but love the sinner?

Don Carson, Research Professor of the New Testament, discusses the popular claim that God hates the sin but loves the sinner.

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