After some of the comments here, I have to ask:
Why is it that so many of us are always ready to explain “hate” in the Bible as hyperbole or “semitic idiom”, but when we encounter it in a blog post, assume it must be taken in its most literal, po-faced and unpleasant sense?
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I hate it when people do that…
PErhaps because (1) it is a Semetic idiom, but not a modern English one, and (2) hate does so much damage in the Christian Church today (let alone the world at large). I think many Christians genuinely do hate fellow-Christians with whom they disagree, and that’s tragic.
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