God cannot hate anybody who is capable of loving anybody.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker argues that a deity capable of love cannot be capable of hatred.
- In plain terms
- A loving god cannot hate.
- What can you take from it?
- Love contradicts the capacity for hatred.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can love and hatred coexist in one being?
- What defines a good god?
Another view
It assumes human definitions of love apply to the divine.
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