>Your judgement of hate is not scriptural. What seeker did Jesus call hateful? That seems to be a stock answer of catholic, Oh your just hateful....yuk No love of Jesus in that is there? shame on you for not showing Christs love to others you know nothing about...
Good point. People seem to forget that Jesus drove the money-changers out of the temple with a scourge... because he hated what they had done. They also seem to forget “The fear of the Lord is to hate all evil.”
It seems that many people are under the belief that to “love” someone is to never [heatedly] disagree or oppose... their version of “turn the other cheek” is no different from “take it in the ass”. (Sorry, but I don’t believe there is a better or less offensive way to describe that ‘equivalence’; the distortion SHOULD be offensive.)
I won't argue that point with you, but I remember it as being "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom:" But I could be wrong. :O) My memory at 70 is not what it use to be, and you may be right..