Why God Hates Sin

November 4, 2024

Short answer: consequences.

If you’ve been around the block once or twice, you may have discovered this reality in life. If you’re just new to the world, keep your eyes open and you will discover this phenomenon to be absolutely true.

Science has. Throughout the Natural world it is a consistent dynamic in which the various Sciences all have developed Laws that govern our physical environment. Scientists don’t just make things up because they’re bored. https://www.britannica.com/science/scientific-method

Philosophy, too, has its structure of rules… and there are a bunch of them,,, https://www.britannica.com/search?query=Rules%20of%20Philosophy

For example, logic is the base on which existentialism is built: “I think, therefore I am.”

Now, what are the Laws or the invisible God revealed in the Bible? There are a bunch of them, too. People often cannot seem to relate to them, and certainly cannot trust them to be inescapable, absolutes, and inviolate as is the Laws of Gravity. Nevertheless, they are.

“Why?” is a good question.

First,the answer depends on an individual’s particular mindset. There are two basic approaches. If you believe something spontaneously comes out of nothing, whether you like it or not, your mindset leans toward Atheism. If you believe something must be created by an outside agent, then whether you like the association or not, your mindset leans toward Theism.

(I am using the simplest definitions for the two, else this little essay would be a huge and voluminous work of endlessly detailed opinions and their ensuing infinite debates… if you want that, you’ll have to attend Graduate School. I’m just a run of the mill very ordinary human being.)

Long answer: God cares for you.

Perhaps, this is an unpalatable notion for you to swallow — whether or not you have leanings toward the atheistic or the theistic view. I say “leaning” so as to be holding onto the hope that you remain open minded to whether or not that God actually exists.

Still and all, God is actual and involved in all Life — and I know not just in my wife’s and my own.

Please allow me then to approach this topic as a theory, a fanciful pipedream, if you will. This is how the story goes:

God created the Universe and everything in it, including Mankind. He saw everything He had made to be “very good.” He took some time off. Then He created a special Parkland called Eden placing two people in it — besides the rest of the Human Race already existing in the rest of the world. Note that in that sense, Adam and Eve were “holy,” which is the literal translation of that word. This separate and to be an ongoing work of His was for special purposes — like revealing His nature and character and goals to all Mankind.

Holy. Separate. Purposeful. Ongoing.

Herein is what I consider to be the most important working dynamic consistently revealed throughout the Bible: God created us and everything else. So, He knows exactly how everything works, including people , and He intimately and intrinsically knows what works best.

God informed us of His Laws based on that knowledge and on the basis of the operative dynamic of consequences.

Adam and Eve disobeyed the rules and consequently had to leave Paradise.

The builders of the Tower of Babel had to have their speech confused so Mankind wouldn’t rely on their own devices to build a “stairway to Heaven.” …God had a plan so let’s not get ahead of the game, people.

Like good parents and other adults who have children’s best results (consequences) in mind, their rules are for our benefit and for avoiding the many pitfalls of life which they, perhaps, had to learn the hard way. They know that obedience to those rules will save time, and help to avoid the many ways hurt and harm can invade our lives.

Let me point out that that is why God doesn’t want sin, that is, disobedience, in our lives, all because of the possibilities of hurting and harming not only ourselves, but one another.

This dynamic is called “love,” and in this is expressed with several different Greek words like “brotherly love” (philia), “family love” (storge), and “self-sacrificing love” (agape). There are others, but these are the Greek used in the Bible.

The first, mentioned above, is brotherly love as expressed in the Law to love your neighbor as yourself.

The second is family love as in the recollection of Joseph and Mary where, after finding his betrothed pregnant, did not sue for divorce.

The third is the recollections of Jesus’ birth, death, and resurrection, — the love encapsulated in these Bible verses:

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” — John 3:16, New International Version.

“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” — 1 John 4:10, ibid.

“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” — Romans 5:8, ibid.f our choices

Consequences — whether good or bad — are the result of our own choices — whether they are good or bad.God has given us rules to live by and to prosper by.

So, don’t play the blame game.

In the end it all comes down to us.

“…seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” — Matthew 6:33, ibid. (Note that “these things” refers to life’s necessities.)

Speaking of life;s necessities and God’s Laws, there are certain ones we today call “kosher.” Here’s one recently in the News in 2020, a plague called Covid, probably coming from a butcher market filled with “unclean” animals. Oh, there have been worse epidemics regarding a more serious sin which have all been dumped into the category of STD’s. Or, what are the actions of Mankind resulting in Climate Change? Or wars?

You assume God is responsible? Some blame God for not creating everything “perfect.” Oh! But He did!

Our choices as individuals and as the greater society have consequential results. From the beginning of time, and whether you are theistic or atheistic in your points of view, doesn’t really matter does it?

“For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” — John 3:17, ibid.