Who to Hate

As I recall, after reading the entirety of the Sacred-66-books Judeo-Christian Holy Bible in more than one English translation (not all at once, of course), there is not one Bible verse ever instructing me to hate God.

Instead:

Matthew 22:37 And He said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
Mark 12:30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'
Luke 10:27 And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself."

The gospel of Luke stands alone in adding the phrase: "loving your neighbor as yourself." Luke is the only one to include that additional phrase.

Moreover, Luke is the only gospel writer who states the following:

Luke 23:34 And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." And they cast lots to divide His garments.

NO other gospel writer - not Matthew nor Mark nor John - includes that statement of Christ from His cross.

Admittedly, that does not mean that Christ never actually said what Luke (under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit) wrote that Christ said, simply because no one else includes the statement. But it is unique to Luke's gospel alone.

The reader has probably heard others blatter and beller that Jesus was [mindlessly or desperately] giving carte blanche across-the-board forgiveness to everyone within the hearing of His voice as He hung on the cross when He is said to have said:

Luke 23:34 And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." And they cast lots to divide His garments.

[ That is similar to the probably-fear-and-cowardice-based remark of "I/We forgive him for what he did. . ." which nefarious news reporters like to record of those unconditional-love wimps who experienced a close relative of their being brutally murdered - when they have no authority whatsoever to temporally nor eternally forgive any impenitent murderer, which murderer has in no way indicated they deserve such forgiveness by the total and complete absence of any regretful nor remorseful utterance of theirs ].

"They knew not what they did?"

Did not all participants in the lynching and murder against Jesus know exactly what they were doing - or were they instead sleepwalking, hallucinating out of their mind due to previous ingestion of narcotics or alcohol, incognizant by reason of random-chance insanity or Alzheimer's, or whatever?

Had the damnable pharisees who did not repent on Golgatha's Calvary, and never repented thereafter, thought that actually giving sight to a man born blind or Jesus actually raising a couple of certifiably-deceased men back to life, and a lot more, were some kind of hocus-pocus voodoo, magical illusions, or jokes?

Did that forgiveness which Christ proclaimed from the cross include His mother and His beloved-disciple John, who also allegedly "did not know what they were doing?" [and thus also sleepwalking, hallucinating under dope, incognizant by reason of random-chance insanity or Alzheimer's, or whatever?]

Was it even meant for the continuously-impenitent majority of envious satanic pharisees, whom Jesus had [lovingly?] scolded as "blind fools," "brood of vipers," "whitewashed tombs," and "hypocrites" -- asking them: "How are you to escape being sentenced to Hell" and of whom He said to Pilate "they have the greater sin" -- which relentlessly impenitent accursed pharisees slandered Jesus purportedly being an "imposter" to Pilate after Jesus had died and who forced the Roman guards to lie about what happened on Resurrection Morning, bribing them to fabricate the falsehood that Christ's disciples had stolen the corpse while those thereafter-disreputated guards were asleep on the job?

The Lord did not intend any of the above-mentioned in his petition to His Father for pardon, parole, nor clemency.

Even if He had meant them to be included, it is pretty difficult for the then-forgiven to either want or be able to stop the increasing-injurious effects of a pinned-up-carcass crucifixion in progress.

However, was not Christ's statement of forgiveness rather meant for that Roman centurian who stated: "Truly this man was the Son of God?"

Was it also meant for the 5000 pharisees-incited mob of Jews who had left the crucifixion scene "beating their breasts" and who later repented at Peter's Pentecost sermon -- who were "cut to the heart" after Peter accused them of murdering the Lord of glory?

Was it also meant for homicidal-maniac Saul who - because of blasphemously-insidious demonic-deception-based misinformation and self-righteousness-sourced misrepresentations - persecuted and imprisoned Christians in savage raving fury . . . before he in dumb-struck suddenly-blinded disability and consequential penitence saw the Light on the road to Damascus, promptly became the Apostle Paul, and afterwards wrote half the New Testament?

When the Bible states that "God so loved the world," that one-sided potentially-cultic blurb does not mean that God will always love the entire "many-on-the-broad-and-easy-road-to-destruction" population on Earth, because other Biblical texts clearly and specifically state:

Joshua 24:19 But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD; for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

Isaiah 10:22 For though your people Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. Destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

John 3:18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Romans 9:27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: "Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved.

Second Timothy 4:10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.

James 4:4 Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

First John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.

I guess that Luke might be quite eager and quick to recite the following to us:

Leviticus 19:17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him.

Matthew 5:38 You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
39 But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also;
40 and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well;
41 and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
42 Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.
43 You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47 And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the nations do the same?
48 You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Ecclesiastes 7:20 Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins.
First John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
First John 1:10 If we say we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

Luke 6:27 But I say to you that hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you
Luke 6:33 And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

First Peter 3:9 Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.

But perhaps [pacifist love-love-love?] Luke, the gospel writer, would have trouble with the following Scriptural admonitions:

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and continual love with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations,
10 and requites to their face those who hate Him, by destroying them [love-love-love?]; He will not be slack with him who hates Him, He will requite him to his face.
11 You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you this day.
15 And the LORD will take away from you all sickness; and none of the [congenital, genetic-alteration, environmentally-exacerbated] evil diseases of Egypt, which you knew, will he inflict upon you, but He will lay them upon all who hate you.
16 And you shall destroy all the peoples that the LORD your God will give over to you, your eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
17 If you say in your heart, 'These nations are greater than I; how can I dispossess them?'
18 you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt,
20 Moreover the LORD your God will send hornets among them, until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed.
22 The LORD your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you may not make an end of them at once, lest the wild beasts grow too numerous for you.
23 But the LORD your God will give them over to you, and throw them into great confusion, until they are destroyed.
24 And he will give their kings into your hand, and you shall make their name perish from under heaven; not a man shall be able to stand against you, until you have destroyed them [love-love-love?].

Second Chronicles 19:2 But Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to King Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the LORD? Because of this, wrath has gone out against you from the LORD.

Psalm 26:5 I hate the company of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked [love-love-love?].
34:21 Evil shall slay the wicked [love-love-love?]; and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.
89:23 I will crush his foes [love-love-love?] before him and strike down those who hate him [love-love-love?].
97:10 The LORD loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
101:3 I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cleave to me.
119:113 I hate double-minded men [love-love-love?], but I love thy law.
129:5 May all who hate Zion be put to shame and turned backward!

Psalm 139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
Psalm 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies [love-love-love?].

Ecclesiastes 3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate [love-love-love?]; a time for war [love-love-love?], and a time for peace.

Jeremiah 12:8 My heritage has become to me like a lion in the forest, she has lifted up her voice against me; therefore I hate her [love-love-love?].

Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you [love-love-love?] from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children [love-love-love?].
Hosea 9:15 Every evil of theirs is in Gilgal; there I began to hate them [love-love-love?]. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house [love-love-love?]. I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels.

Luke 9:5 And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them [love-love-love?]."

Luke 14:26 If any one comes to me and does not hate [love-love-love?] his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Luke 16:13 No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one [love-love-love?] and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise [love-love-love?] the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

So, unlike it is regarding (and not "concerning") God - whom we must ALWAYS love (no matter what) - we can and should both love and hate people, depending on: (1) what they have and have not done, and (2) the severity of what they have and have not done . . . thus when, and how much, should we love them then hate them then love them then hate them then love them then hate them, and so on?

Ezekiel 18:5 "If a man is righteous and does what is lawful and right . . .
6 if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of impurity,
7 does not oppress any one, but restores to the debtor his pledge, commits no robbery, gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
9 walks in my statutes, and is careful to observe my ordinances . . . he is righteous, he shall surely live," says the Lord GOD.
10 If he begets a son who is a robber, a shedder of blood,
11 who does none of these duties, but eats upon the mountains, defiles his neighbor's wife,
12 oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,
13 lends at interest, and takes increase; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominable things; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.
14 But if this man begets a son who sees all the sins which his father has done, and fears, and does not do likewise,
15 who does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife,
16 does not wrong any one, exacts no pledge, commits no robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
17 withholds his hand from iniquity, takes no interest or increase, observes my ordinances, and walks in my statutes; he shall not die for his father's iniquity; he shall surely live.
18 As for his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his brother, and did what is not good among his people, behold, he shall die for his iniquity.
19 Yet you say, 'Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?' When the son has done what is lawful and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
20 The soul that sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
21 But if a wicked man turns away from all his sins which he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is lawful and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
22 None of the transgressions which he has committed shall be remembered against him; for the righteousness which he has done he shall live.
23 "Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked," says the Lord GOD, "and not rather that he should turn from his way and live?"
24 But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous works which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.
25 "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
30 "Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, every one according to his works," says the Lord GOD. "Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
31 Throw away from you all the transgressions which you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, house of Israel?
32 For I have no pleasure in the death of any one," says the Lord GOD; "so turn, and live."

Acts 10:35 but in every nation any one who fears Him and does what is right is acceptable to Him.

How is and should [righteous] hatred against [relentlessly-sinful] persons (NOT merely their sins!) typically and legitimately be expressed and understandably enforced?

It certainly is not as follows:

Psalm 50:18 If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.

But instead is put into action as follows:

Exodus 23:1 You shall not utter a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man, to be a malicious witness.

Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a crowd or mob or gang to do evil; nor shall you bear witness in a suit, turning aside after a crowd or mob or gang, so as to pervert justice;

Deuteronomy 13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers have known,
7 some of the gods of the peoples that are round about you, whether near you or far off from you, from the one end of the earth to the other,
8 you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him;
9 but you shall execute (but not "murder") him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death [love-love-love?], and afterwards the hand of all the people.
10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.

Leviticus 20:7 Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 20:8 Keep my statutes, and do them; I am the LORD who sanctify you.

MORE examples of love-love-love?

Leviticus 20:9 For every one who curses his father or his mother shall be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother, his blood is upon him.
10 If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
11 The man who lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness; both of them shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
12 If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed incest, their blood is upon them.
13 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
14 If a man takes a wife and her mother also, it is wickedness; they shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.
15 If a man lies with a beast, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the beast.
16 If a woman approaches any beast and lies with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them.
17 If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a shameful thing, and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people; he has uncovered his sister's nakedness, he shall bear his iniquity.
18 If a man lies with a woman having her sickness, and uncovers her nakedness, he has made naked her fountain, and she has uncovered the fountain of her blood; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
19 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or of your father's sister, for that is to make naked one's near kin; they shall bear their iniquity.
20 If a man lies with his uncle's wife, he has uncovered his uncle's nakedness; they shall bear their sin, they shall die childless.
21 If a man takes his brother's wife, it is impurity; he has uncovered his brother's nakedness, they shall be childless.

Love-love-love?

Proverbs 14:7 Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
Proverbs 20:19 He who goes about gossiping reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with one who speaks foolishly.

Ezekiel 14:6 Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Repent and turn away from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations." '

Micah 7:5 Put no trust in a neighbor, have no confidence in a friend; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom

Matthew 8:22 But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."

Love-love-love? How about hate-hate-hate instead?

Matthew 22:12 and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless.
Matthew 22:13 Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and cast him into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.'
Matthew 22:14 For many are called, but few are chosen."

Luke 9:60 But He said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

John 2:15 And making a whip of cords, He drove them all, with the sheep and oxen, out of the temple; and he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

Romans 16:17 I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.

First Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: 'Bad company ruins good morals.'

Second Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismated with disbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
15 What accord has Christ with the Devil? Or what has a believer in common with a disbeliever?
16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will live in them and move among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
17 "Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them," says the Lord, "and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you."

Ephesians 5:7 Therefore do not associate with them . . .

Second Timothy 3:5 . . . holding a form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.

First Peter 4:4 They are surprised that you do not now join them in the same wild profligacy, and they abuse you;
First Peter 4:5 but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

Second John 1:10 If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting . . .