Can God hate?

Malachi
I will attach a paper that I wrote about the book of Malachi, for those who would like to do some more intense reading on this book (stay tuned for that post).  In addition to that, I would just like to pass on a tidbit of information that I recently read in, guess what?, "How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth".  In the beginning of Malachi, God says Jacob have I loved, but Esau I hated.  Hate?  Where did that come from?  Isn't hate wrong, sinful?  Clearly, our definition of hate is not what is meant here.  A typical definition for hate in Hebrew is rejection, and that is what God was talking about.  God rejected Esau, rather than hated him in the sense that he would have wanted him to go to hell for eternity.  This wording in Malachi is an example of how we must be aware of the language used in scripture, and what we might think it means versus what the author meant.  We should avoid making errant theological judgments based on a poor grasp of the actual meaning of the text.

John
Sometimes, having read through the gospels, one might tend to think that we have all the information about Jesus.  John's conclusion clearly demonstrates otherwise!  There could have been so many volumes written about his life and work that we would be swimming in the information.  Isn't so interesting that God had people pass along just what we would need to get to know God, rather than all the information we could possibly want to satisfy all our insatiable curiosities?  We need faith that what we can't figure out or what people didn't write about isn't crucial to our knowing God fully.