Then why does he save sinners.
" But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: 31 that, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." ( 1 Corinthians 1:30-31 )
" to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. " ( Ephesians 1:6 ).
" who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." ( Titus 2:14 ).
God hates the sin yes but not the sinners.
Does it not say, in the passage I listed, that He actually hates
the worker of iniquity?
You do believe the words, don't you MB?
He loved the sinner enough to die for sinners yet you claim God hates sinners.
All of His elect were sinners, the same as the rest, MB.
Do you not see in the Bible that God loved sinners in the sense of loving the "whosoever believeth", and hates those that don't?
God loved Jacob, and made him righteous by his grace, and hated Esau and left him in his sins to judge?
If you say He died for only the elect you still have no excuse for the sinners he saves everyday.
He does save His elect, my friend, every time He calls one to Himself through His word and by His Spirit.
I do not know how often that happens, though.
I do know that many people claim to believe, and then show who they are by denying Christ in their works and in their ways in this life.
When the times get tough, they fall away from the hope of the Gospel...
They go back to loving this world and its ways.
But He does save His people, and keeps them.