Are love and hate in a harmonious balance within God? I am referring to this fascinating (and accepted) answer of Jonathon Byrd where he proves by the Bible that God is also the God of hate:

Psalm 5:5 (NKJV)
The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity.
Psalm 7:11 (NKJV)
God is a just judge, And God is angry with the wicked every day.
Psalm 11:5 (NKJV)
The LORD tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
Psalm 15:4 (NKJV)
In whose eyes a vile person is despised, But he honors those who fear the LORD; He who swears to his own hurt and does not change;

My question:
Is this hate in a harmonious balance with love comparable to Eastern religions, e.g. Taoism with their concept of Yin and Yang? Or how do both interrelate? Could this hate of God even be the explanation for the problem of evil in the world and why God gives Satan free rein?
Jonathan already explained from a Biblical perspective how God is a God of hate as well as love. I will try not to duplicate that.

The 'problem of evil' is utterly unrelated to the attribute of hate. Evil and hate are not at all the same thing. God is good: 100% pure good. He is, in fact, the only standard of what good is; we measure whether something is good or not by comparing it to the character and decrees of God. God is not evil! The fact that part of his character demands that he hate does not make him evil, it makes him fully good! Evil, note hate, is the correct opposite of good. Evil could even be defined by its hate of good: good hates that which is evil, evil hates that which is good.

It is logically impossible to be good and love good without hating the opposite of good.1 One must hate evil in order to love good. If you love Jews, you must hate the holocaust. If you love unborn babies, you must hate when they are aborted. If you love women, you must hate when they are abused.

The character of God is utterly different than what Eastern religions teach about balance. The standard of good that he demonstrates is not 'a little bit of good and a little bit of bad keeping each other at bay' or some mystic balance between forces. God is FULL of love just as he is FULL of hatred. Both attributes are taken to their full EXTREMES, not balanced in the middle. They are complementary characteristics, not opposites.

Good and evil are opposites. There is no evil in God and he will not permit evil to continue.2 Our world is but a temporary stage3 on which his final and decisive defeat of evil4 is played out (to demonstrate his glory not because it was ever in doubt) and he demonstrates how good he is in that he can even redeem evil and use it for good.5

But do not be deceived: evil is never in itself a good. Its defeat and destruction are good and that God both can and chooses to redeemed anything from the kingdom of darkness is purely astounding.6



  Isaiah 61:8a (ESV)
  For I the Lord love justice;
  I hate robbery and wrong


  Ezekiel 35:6 (ESV)
  ... therefore, as I live, declares the Lord God, I will prepare you for blood, and blood shall pursue you; because you did not hate bloodshed, therefore blood shall pursue you.


  1 Peter 5:10 (ESV)
  And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.


  Acts 2:24 (ESV)
  God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.


  1 Peter 1:6-7 (ESV)
  In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.


  Romans 3:26 (ESV)
  It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.