Hate in the Bible and the Koran

Remember a few chapters back we looked at love in the Bible and the Koran and the differences? Hmmm? Let's look at the other side.

I searched the Koran for "does not love," and got 23 hits about who and what Allah does not love. Some are pretty okay and consistent with Christianity -- the proud, the extravagant, the unjust, etc. But many are references to unbelievers or sinners(!). Allah doesn't love them. Says so right there, there and there. Surah 2:276, Surah 3:32 and Surah 22:38. That's not all of them.

There are only 15 matches for "hate." But a couple of them are disturbing.

Surah 7:166 "Therefore when they revoltingly persisted in what they had been forbidden, We [that's God, supposedly] said to them: Be as apes, despised and hated."

Okay, so, someone disobeyed God, and God says "be hated." Sounds like God hates them. But the really disturbing thing? God hates monkeys!

Don't believe me? Surah 2:65 "And certainly you have known those among you who exceeded the limits of the Sabbath, so We said to them: Be (as) apes, despised and hated."

I don't even know what "exceeded the limits of the Sabbath" means, but God hates people who do, just like he hates monkeys!
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Okay, now to the Bible. Eight results for "does not love." Two are from Dueteronomy and have to do with what happens if you don't love your wife anymore or something.

Here's the rest: John 14:24 He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.

1 Corinthians 16:22 If anyone does not love the Lord—a curse be on him. Come, O Lord!

That's not God talking, just an overly excited Paul.

1 John 3:10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death.

1 John 4:8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

These are utterly different from the Koran. Nowhere does it say "God does not love." Not even monkeys.

On to "Hate."

Woops. 128 hits! But not one says God hates monkeys or anyone else. The Psalms have a lot of hate in them, which surprised me, and once in awhile attributes God with hating the Psalmists enemies; but I think he was just hoping.

Woops again! Proverbs 6:16-19

There are six things the LORD hates,
seven that are detestable to him:

haughty eyes,
a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,

a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,

a false witness who pours out lies
and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.


Notice only one of these is referred to as a "man", and that's the seventh, which is only "detestable." (I'm tryin'!)

Anyway -- There you go. The God of the Muslims hates monkeys. The Christian God does not. So there.