A lot of modern Christians will tell you that God loves you. They will say that God loves them. There's even a song that proclaims "Jesus loves me, this I know, because the Bible tells me so."
That isn't exactly correct.
John 3:16 states that "For God so loved the world...". As in all of us. We are part of the world. When those words were written, two thousand years ago, we weren't even around yet. The writings of the apostles, in Greek (because English wasn't a thing yet), describe God living the kosmon, a word that can mean world, universe, or inhabitants of the world.
Think of "world" like "team". Surely you've heard that there's no "I" in team?
Many modern Christians will also tell you that God loves everyone. That's definitely not true. Proverbs 6 tells us things God hates: a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet swift in running to mischief, false witnesses, and anyone who sows discord among brethren.
The bible also tells us that God hated Esau (Malachi 1:3).
God surely hated the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 19)--wiping them from the face of the earth with his wrath.
Even the book of Revelation (by the same John who wrote God loved the world) tells of what happens when God unleashes his wrath in the future.
Maybe God does love you, the person reading this. Maybe he only hates some of the things you do: bearing false witness, lying, thinking up evil, and any other wickedness like fornication, murder, and theft. Maybe he otherwise thinks you're swell and is willing to overlook your wickedness.
It is wrong to preach that God is all about hugs and kisses for everyone, overlooking that all of us sin (Romans 3:23) and many of us are just plain evil. Yes, God loved the world so much that He sacrificed His only begotten son (Jesus) to pay the price for our sins, so that we could repent (turn away from sin) and accept God's forgiveness.
We should never overlook sin and tell anyone that God loves them--we don't know what they do in their private lives or what they think about. We should instead tell people that God wants to love them. That He created them in love.... that He waits to love them.
God loves ALL of us, not EACH of us.
Unless he had some major epiphany before he died, it's a sure bet that God didn't love Hitler, or Stalin, or Jeffrey Dahmer, or even Jim Jones. There are lots of people, who, like Esau, have earned God's hatred. The good news though, is that despite what we, or they, have done (or are doing) we don't need God to love us individually to be saved. Christ died for everyone. When he returns, he will gladly accept those who reject sin and accept him as Lord and master, despite any past transgression.
If you are now evil, or ever have been, God will love you when you accept his son and turn away from sin. Until then, don't kid yourself and keep being evil.
