Does God truly love the sinner but hate the sin?

Or is it that he just hates both?

I know this has such an obvious answer! But people who are not Christian do not really know the answer. They think they do based on how Christians behave but, let’s face it, they are not being told the truth.

Here we have a generalization; one, which can be misleading.
Many times I have heard People declare that God “Loves the sinner but hates the sin.”
And while there is an element of truth to this statement the reality is a little more… unpalatable for non-Christians.
You see it all hinges on a person’s perception of what love might be.
Christians, if they have been “raised” properly in the faith, understand what God’s love means.
But Non Christians think that love means “I will do anything for you and give you anything you want!” in short they think love is what most people used to refer to as spoiling or being spoiled.

God Does love us even when we are in sin. It is true! But the love he shows is not one which leads to a person becoming spoiled! He wants what is best for us Not what we think we want.

We are after all his children, and like a child might want to eat nothing but Ice cream, cake and candy, we all know that that is not a healthy thing to do.
So if we are good parents then we will enforce a diet more consistent with what is GOOD for them.
And like we see people do towards God, They will scream and cry and rant that we do not love them.

BUT it is PRECISELY because of our love for them that we insist on what is better for them even though they would rather have it differently.

But unfortunately we are also all “adults” now and we do not like to think about our still being immature compared to God.
So we are worse. Because the Child will realize what his or her station in life is more readily than an adult might. Although in today’s society where we have become so permissive that might be a less accurate statement than it once was.

You see?
There is the issue though. God does love the sinner, and God does hate the sin. But God hates the sin so much that the sinner who does not become absolved of sin still cannot come into God’s presence.
He cannot be redeemed! But the statement of God loving the sinner while hating the sin does not address the issue.
It merely gives the sinner the false reassurance that he or she can do whatever he or she wants and he or she will still get in to heaven because, After all, “If God loves me he wouldn’t deny me this”.

But that would be the approach our grandparents have, not our parents! And God IS our father. He has a very large interest in making sure we grow up RIGHT. We need to teach the truth and the WHOLE truth. Not just little bits and pieces in half accurate generalizations.