Before I answer this we need to clear up one very important issue and that is the issue of whom we are talking about. Things that we often think are very straight forward frequently turn out to be not quite as straight forward as we first thought. They are still simple to understand (too simple for some) but not as straight forward.

The issue here is this: which God are we talking about - god the Devil or God the Godhead, consisting of the two personages - The Father God and The Lord Jesus Christ? This issue is crucial, for one is a God (Godhead) of love and the other is a god of hate, e.g. the god of all wars. He is the god that sets men against men and wherever there is a war the Devil is involved through his powerful agents on earth - the real powerbrokers behind the politicians. The fact that mankind in general is oblivious to the fact is by the by.

The Devil god is the god of this world - this age. When people use that expression or exclamation ‘Oh my god!’ they are not blaspheming God’s name, they are making blind reference to the Devil. The Father God is not their God because they do not believe in Him so in their eyes and in their minds He does not exist, yet they are still saying ‘Oh my god!’ This is a god they claim to be theirs and of course he is their god, the god of this world (age) - the Devil.

2 Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Now there he is, as mentioned in Holy Scripture, the one who has blinded the minds of them i.e. those people or rather the great majority of mankind who do not believe and cannot believe. Notice: lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. There we have it, one of the most over read passages of Scripture in the Holy Bible and a Scripture that mainstream Christianity completely ignores. This Scripture plainly tells us that mankind cannot believe and it is not a matter of human choice to believe. Satan the Devil - the god of this world, has blinded them to The Truth i.e. Jesus Christ and His glorious Gospel.

So why is the devil the god of hate? He is the god of hate because we human beings are destined to hold positions of higher authority than him and just the thought of this makes him wild with jealous anger? Some of us (The Elect) will actually judge angels: 1 Cor 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? The Devil also knows that his days are numbered as the god of this world (age). He knows his days of power are soon to come to a dramatic end and his power taken away from him. We are now living in the last days of the last days and he knows it and his hatred for mankind grows stronger each day.

OK, that’s enough about the Adversary, but what about The Father God, does He hate anything or anyone? He doesn’t hate people, but He does hate the things people do. What things - sinful things? The Father God hates sin - all sin. There is not a sin that He does not hate and that is why He sent His Son The Lord Jesus Christ to deal with sin once and for all.

Hang on a minute, what about all those people who died in the flood - men women and children? What about all those Canaanites The Lord told Joshua and the Israelites to slaughter and wipe out, again, men women and children? If that’s not hateful, what is? Then there were all the first born males in Egypt at the time of the Exodus, followed by the Pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea, and all the people of Sodom and Gomorrah - this all sounds very hateful to me I hear you say. Yes and there are many in mainstream Christianity that think that way too - especially their clergy. These Biblical historical events give them all kinds of problems and that is because they do not understand The Godhead, they do not understand the “potter and the clay” arrangement, nor do they understand The Godhead’s plan for mankind or the “big picture”. In their deluded narrow view and mindsets they think the ‘God is Love’ portrayal of God’s character is a contradiction of the God that brought about the above cataclysmic events. 1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

The Father God’s vengeful acts also go against their insipid liberal contaminated minds. Minds that have been corrupted and poisoned by a hate filled false gospel on one hand, and liberal politics on the other. Many of these liberal ideas originated with the ideology of the liberal reformers and do-gooders who came to prominence in 19th century Britain and the USA. Am I saying liberal reformers were/are bad people? No, they were well meaning people, totally misguided yes, if they thought they were doing God’s will, but misguided just the same. For a fuller explanation of this topic and on man and his ‘achievements’ please see my article “Was Jesus Christ an effeminate looking wimp? - Part 4″

We can now see from the events that took place in Old Testament times why people in general think God hates mankind or at best they think He is capable of very hateful actions. Now because they do not believe in God and cannot believe in God they can never understand God. What about ‘Christians’ though, for there are many them who have a similar opinion of God and also consider Him hateful? In theory they are supposed to know God and know Him personally, yet when you quiz them about The God that destroyed all those people in times past they are usually stumped for an answer. Why, they’re believers aren’t they!? Well yes in theory they are but in reality they’re not. How do I know this? I know this because they believe a lie and part of that lie is the lie of the teaching that all unbelievers will be thrown into hell fire - about 95%+ of mankind!!

Just recently I was made aware, via a TV documentary, of the teachings of a so called minister of God in the USA who states quite clearly, on bold colourful placards, that God hates America, God hates Britain and God hates Sweden too. According to this ‘minister’, God hates all these countries because of their tolerance towards homosexuals and their lifestyles. In brazen ignorant boldness, this ‘minister’ sends forth his followers (mostly his own family) across the USA instructing them to tell their fellow Americans that God hates America, God hates fags (homosexuals) and God hates those in power who send their young men to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. This family group actually attends the funerals of deceased military personnel to tell their loved ones they died because God hates America and because God is not blessing their military campaigns. Needless-to-say God will also send them all to hell unless they turn from their evil ways. This is what this so called minister of God preaches and teaches. The thing is, is any of this stuff Biblical, is any of it The Truth or is it just evil religious bluster, hogwash and hot air? To find out we need to turn to the Scriptures:

Scripture 1 - Romans 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

And so all Israel shall be saved, this means that all the Israelites and all the Jews that have ever lived from the time of Jacob/Israel to this day will be saved. Now the question we have to ask ourselves here is this. How many of these Israelites and Jews will have been homosexuals in this life and yet will be saved? How many of these homosexual Israelites and Jews will have been Americans? Answer, thousands upon thousands of them and all of them will be saved. There it is, a complete contradiction of everything this ‘minister’ is saying.

To expound further, here we have a little conundrum. This ‘minister’ is telling us that God hates all these homosexual Americans and is going to throw them all into hell - a fiery hell no doubt. Now this is very interesting because while he is saying that, The Lord Jesus Christ has promised that His Father will enable them all to be saved. How will He do that, by giving them new hearts of flesh instead of hearts of stone and turning ungodliness (which includes homosexuality) from Jacob? It looks as though what this ‘minister’ is saying is the opposite of what the Godhead is saying and planning on doing!! Well would you believe it - I hope so?

I will continue with the remaining Scriptures in Part 2 and reveal whether or not this so called minister is a minister of God or a minister of the Devil.

Charles Crosby