01-14-2010, 09:51 PM
greengirl47 Wrote:I also struggle with statements that either outright say or imply that G-d hates some people(s) and loves others.
Can this be posted:
G-d in His essence does not have feelings and is not bound by any such limitation. We can not refer to Him at all with any descriptive statement.
So when it says that He 'hates' (which of course is an English translation, and not an actual Torah term) this simply informs us, in a terse mathematical manner, that 'this is the opposite of My will. This is the opposite of what I created the world for.'
The very phrase 'G-d can hate' seems to be a treatment of Him in human terms.