I seem to be seeing a bit of cross-wiring in your biblical deductions. There is no way that God can bring a sinner to himself while he hates him. As stated above, God showed us his love, while we were yet sinners. It was not hate.
God both hates and love the *ELECT* as well. We are both loved with an everlasting love (by virtue of our election in Christ), *AND* we are hated on account of our sin (because we are God's enemies and objects of his wrath by nature). These two senses in which God loves certainly do not contradict with one another.
So, if God can love and hate an elect person at the same time in a non-contradictory manner, we figure that it stands to reason that God's common love by which he gives good gifts to all in his mercy and common grace is extended to the reprobate, even when he is hated and left to go his own way for God's electing purpose.
I think it's wise to be careful how we read the scriptures. I can deduct from simply two verses in the bible a very dangerous theology.
1: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. 2: All have sinned.
Deduction: God hates you.
That is an equivocal syllogism...You are leaving out important information. And I am assuming that wasn't an attempt to make a syllogism of what I believe, because then you would be commiting a logical fallacy called the strawman argument.
God both hates and love the *ELECT* as well. We are both loved with an everlasting love (by virtue of our election in Christ), *AND* we are hated on account of our sin (because we are God's enemies and objects of his wrath by nature). These two senses in which God loves certainly do not contradict with one another.
So, if God can love and hate an elect person at the same time in a non-contradictory manner, we figure that it stands to reason that God's common love by which he gives good gifts to all in his mercy and common grace is extended to the reprobate, even when he is hated and left to go his own way for God's electing purpose.
I think it's wise to be careful how we read the scriptures. I can deduct from simply two verses in the bible a very dangerous theology.
1: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
2: All have sinned.
Deduction: God hates you.
That is an equivocal syllogism...You are leaving out important information. And I am assuming that wasn't an attempt to make a syllogism of what I believe, because then you would be commiting a logical fallacy called the strawman argument.
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