or as the christians always say "God is Love"
Malachi 1:2-3 declares, “’I have loved you,’” says the LORD. But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' ‘Was not Esau Jacob's brother?’ the LORD says. ‘Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.’ Malachi 1:2-3 is quoted an alluded to in Romans 9:10-13, “Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad — in order that God's purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls — she was told, ‘The older will serve the younger.’ Just as it is written: ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.’” Why did God love Jacob and hate Esau? If God is love (1 John 4:8,16), how could He hate anyone?
2006-12-20 07:42:37 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good one! All I have to say is read your bible! LOL you corner people don't ya?
2006-12-20 08:22:25 · answer #1 · answered by Jessi 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well, we have 1. the original mss (lost forever) I guess they never change, although we'll never know what they said). 2. Copies of mss (Some scholarship sheds light on which are closer to the original (#1), but we really don't know. If you think we do, just take a look at some of the attacks by one group against mss they don't happen to like. 3. Translations. Paraphrases and translations are the same, since it's impossible to render a translation with perfect dynamic equivalence or literal equivalence or whatever. 4. Interpretations. The selfsame words can be understood differently by different people, based on their preexisting underlying assumptions. 5. Progressive revelation. The observation that as we find out stuff, we revise our understanding of what scripture actually says. Two hundred years ago, it was a given in most churches that the Scriptures upheld slavery; today, hardly anyone would take that position. So what changes? What stays the same? Ask any number of people, and you will get different "sincere" answers. We have no mechanism to help Joe Q. Average to think it through. He might not get a perfect result, but he will get a better result.
2016-05-23 01:34:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow! Ancient manuscripts contain a multitude of idiomatic expressions. Consequently it is almost impossible to understand a few verses (several) verses in the Bible.
We have often heard Bubba preachers say that a person has to be in the spirit to discern the Bible. That mystefied me when I was a child. Then I realized the Preacher interpreting every verse to grow and maintain their empires.
Then recently, I discovered there is a way that lets you know when someone is misunderstanding or blatantly corrupting a scripture.
The theme of the Bible - always remember the theme. If any verse conflicts with the over-all theme --- it is either being misinterpreted, was mistranslated, or it was just flat out corrupted.
And, just what is the theme of the Bible, the message from God, and that message reitterated by Jesus?
1. Harmony is harmony
2. Disharmony is the only sin against God.
3. Eternal life is possible for all harmony loving people.
smiles--
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2006-12-20 07:57:33 · answer #3 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
adv1sor has the right idea, you have to look at the verse in context. considering the context, God loving Jacob and hating Esau has nothing to do with the human emotions of love and hate. It has to do with God choosing one man and his descendants and rejecting another man and his descendants. God choose Abraham out of all the men in the world. The Bible very well could say, “Abraham I loved, and every other man I hated.” God chose Abraham’s son Isaac instead of Abraham’s son Ishmael. The Bible very well could say, “Isaac I loved, and Ishmael I hated.” Romans chapter 9 makes it abundantly clear that loving Jacob and hating Esau was entirely related to which of them God chose. And Brad answered why it is fair that he chose Jacob over Esau
2006-12-20 07:58:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
We see that God loved Jacob and hated Esau not because of anything that they did, but because of "God's purpose according to His choice," (v. 11). Is this fair for God to do? Yes it is.
First of all, whatever God does is fair. God can do no wrong, so if He loves one and hates another, it is fair. Second, God owes us nothing. He is not obligated to love anyone. He loves out of the freedom of His will and plan, not because of anything in us. He loves because of what is in Him. Third, all people are by nature children of wrath (Eph. 2:3). This means that because we are all fallen and because we are all sinners, the "fair" thing to do is to let us all go to hell. Fairness deals with what is right. Since it is only God who is holy and pure and right, and not us, it is perfectly fair that all of us sinners be judged and condemned by God.
God is loving but also wrathful (Rom 1:18)
2006-12-20 07:49:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Although I should leave questions like this to those much wiser than I, I can offer at least this little bit. The problem here is, I think, one of translation. The Hebrew word used for “hate” is, I believe, “sane”' meaning the opposite of love. Now, we don’t necessarily hate that which we don’t love, right? In this case, I think that the word “sane” is used to mean the one not chosen. God chose Jacob but did not Esau.
I don’t think it is right to say that God hates anyone. Far be it for me to presume to know the mind of God, but I don’t think that He hates at all. I think that he can not tolerate sin, but I know he loves me, even though I am a sinner.
Does that help at all?
2006-12-20 07:53:34 · answer #6 · answered by adv1sor 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God never said he was loving. Jesus did. You got them confused. God said he was a vengeful and wrathful God. Jesus is the loving one.
2006-12-20 07:58:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why do you question God?
2006-12-20 07:45:53 · answer #8 · answered by jinenglish68 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
What happened to your hair?
2006-12-20 07:46:37 · answer #9 · answered by <><><> 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
He hated him because he loves him.
See, god even loves some people so much, that he's gonna torture them forever...out of lovingkindness.
God is love.
2006-12-20 07:45:35 · answer #10 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 1⤊ 6⤋