Paul's Passing Thoughts

 “We are all just sinners saved by grace.” If you protest that common Protestant mantra you will be challenged with this rhetorical question: “Did you sin today?” However, there is debate within Protestant circles about the mantra, “God hates the sin, but loves the sinner.” A meme contesting that notion can be seen below.

However, if you consider the first mantra with Psalms 5:5, one could conclude that God hates everyone who sins which includes Protestants. The verse states that God hates “all” who commit sin.

And apparently, the feelings are mutual.

We are enemies of God. We are God ignoring. We are God defying. We hate God. (CJ Mahaney: Resolved Conference 2008).

Aside from the logical conclusion that God must hate Protestants because they are sinners and the Bible clearly states that God hates sinners, there is also this:

For, by nature, we can do nothing else but provoke God’s wrath; wickedness will always reign in us; and we are held down under the bonds and tyranny of Satan. (Calvin, Sermons on Ephesians, 1:1-3, p., 33). 

We have shown already that we cannot be loved by God, but by means of his only Son. For if the angels of heaven are not worthy to be taken for God’s children except through a head and mediator, what shall become of us who do not cease daily to provoke God’s wrath by our iniquities? [Isa 59:2]. In fact, we fight against him! God, then, must of necessity look upon us in the person of his own Son, or else he is bound to hate us and abhor us. (Calvin, Sermons on Ephesians, 1:7-10, p., 50).

As to general election, there is the same difficulty to satisfy the judgment of men: for as we have already said, there is no difference between men but what arises from hidden election. (Calvin, Commentary on Malachi, 1:2-6).

So, regardless of all the love-bombing that takes place in church; in regard to orthodoxy, Protestants hate God and He hates them even more.

@Franklin_Graham @mike_pence Because Protestants are under law and potentially enslaved to any particular sin. That's why you suggest accounatbiliy in mileu of life.

— Paul M. Dohse (@PaulMDohse) May 4, 2017

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Source: Five Damning Facts About Calvinism