Psalms 5

[Captain.Theophilus]

Psalm 5:4-6

4 For you are not a God who is pleased with wickedness;
    with you, evil people are not welcome.
5 The arrogant cannot stand
    in your presence.
You hate all who do wrong;
6     you destroy those who tell lies.

Specifically 5b. Seems to fit perfectly with ET, but with UR?

[eaglesway]

This could be looked at as a translation issue. The verse says, "Jacob I loved but Esau I hated", in the old English translation. Yet, Esau was made a great nation, as promised. What "hated" meant here was "rejected". God rejected Esau from the inheritance of Abraham and Isaac, the patriarchal fatherhood of Israel, the right to walk as "the friend of God" in his generation. It passed instead to Jacob, the worm, the supplanter.

God "rejects" those who do evil. They are scourged in the "fire of His anger" which is the purging discerment of His wisdom and love that "destroys" the works that are not wrought in His ways. Why? So that He may teach the wicked to do right, and bow before the glory of His love and righteousness.

[ded2daworld]

EW :thumbsup:
...and those that do wrong are doing wrong against God's children. Those that do wrong are therefore God's enemies. God still loves them but removes them.

Here on earth we people do not kill those that do wrong. We lock them up to keep them from doing wrong to. If God, that gave a person life, chooses to take them out of this life, that is his prerogative. If he has no plans for reconciliation in this life or rehabilitation, their existence best be ended for the sake of others. :Peace2: