Ps 11 4 The LORD is in his holy temple;

the LORD is on his heavenly throne.

He observes the sons of men;

his eyes examine them.

5 The LORD examines the righteous,

but the wicked and those who love violence

his soul hates."

A lot of theologians teach that God cannot cross our wills. He must allow us freedom to chose whether we are gonna serve Him or oppose Him. So they use words to describe our relationship with God in context of two wills struggle for control. This is where people can be on both sides...that is mans will is free or because God is absolutely soverign He cannot be thwarted. This conflict of theologies is the basis of how humans relate to one another. We are built to only have these two views of reality. Whether we acknowledge that all men live their lives according to their understanding of the doctrine of man it is the foundation of how we view ourselves and others.

In this way the Psalms teach that if man is free from the curse of the law then his freedom is guided by force. So all of the focus will be on his efforts to force his will to submit to God. So the man will always start with the creed that he must allow God to act or the man is resisting God. So every thing that God wants is preceded by if we let God give it. Some people do not see that this is actually bondage. Because they are saying that our faith is a tension between the force to believe in God and the evil force that resist God. So we are left to respond to the evils of the other person as if they did this or that then they would allow God to the ability to act.

This is why they say that God loves the sinner but He hates the sin. Because if God hated the sinner then God would take away the freedom for that person to be able to choose God. The truth is that if God is helpless to act against the sinner then it must be resolved on a horizontal level.

This is why the Psalms teach a very important principle of freedom. The Psalms teach that God must be free to act apart from any other outside tension.The reason that this teaching is so important is that God takes the choice upon Himself so that we are given the ability to deal with every man by being constrained to make swift judgements because we do not have the power to judge that man. If God "hates" the wicked in a just way not in a vindictive way then we are excused from acting as God in judgment. So the Psalmist is unbiased toward all men because God has not judged those who are living...so that there must be a reason for God allow men to live even tho they deserve death. This is the principle of freedom. Its understanding that the expression of true hate cannot be mean and vengeful but it must come from someone who views all men according to His omniscience. God is the only one who can express hate in "pure justice".

The Psalmist also teaches freedom from the positive side. If God is not able to change anything in this world by the word of His mouth then we are in some ways under the tension of helping God along. So the Psalmist teaches us that dependence on God is the way to experience true freedom. Because at anytime God could speak a word and our lives would be unified. There is no man or thing that stands in the way. Its simply God acting toward us without being thwarted. This is why we believe that God is absolutely soverign.