Answer: While some would contend that God loves the sinner and hates the sin, these passages clearly say otherwise. One cannot legitimately extricate the sinner from the sin which so merit’s God’s wrath.
As passionate creatures, it is difficult to countenance the idea of hating and loving simultaneously. But for a dispassionate God, there is a theological sense in which this is not only possible, but also necessary in God. Love and hate in God are not passions, but dispositions in God that display in affections that settle dispassionately upon personal beings. Depraved man is the object of divine wrath because a righteous God cannot do otherwise; he is also the object of God’s love because as an intrinsically loving God, he has met the ethical demands necessary to the common grace which he showers on them.
Stand Firm! 