Manipulation

     A kind of hatred is manipulation: the use of cunning to control others. I like the King James Version word subtil which is highly skillful.

Gen 3:1 ...the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.

     The subtil (subtle) serpent, endowed with the spirit of Lucifer, proceeded to convince Eve to do his will. I've actually seen people who would put the Devil to shame because of their skillful use of cunning! What the serpent did was manipulate Eve for her will to coincide with his will. I often use the phrase: "useful idiot" but God has his own verbiage:

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

     Manipulators depend on that! Wisdom is seeing through the façade.  People manipulate all the time, and like the serpent, their technique is the same - convince foolish people. The object is for manipulators to convince others to do their will. The fool's will, through cunning, comes to harmonize with the manipulator's will. That was what the Devil did to Eve and children of the Devil use the same tactic!    

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth,... Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do.

     Manipulators mimic their real father! The Devil is a murderer of souls. He kills people with subtlety. Hatred is murder, and hence murder is hatred (1 John 3:15). This makes the point that manipulation is a form of hatred because the manipulator fails to love the manipulated enough to use truth in interactions!
     The serpent used the argument following:

Gen 3:4 ...Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

     The serpent first accused God of manipulation: to persuade them not to eat of the fruit, He said they would die, knowing full-well that God just didn't want them to have His knowledge. God doesn't manipulate as we soon found out. Eve didn't die physically right that moment but she died somewhat later. The serpent manipulated Adam when he saw that Eve didn't die so he ate as well.  (The serpent wasn't honest. He never mentioned time!) If it had not been for their contrition and God's grace, Adam and Eve would have died eternally! They did go from immortality to mortality in life just as God warned. They died because Satan manipulated them using the wily serpent. The serpent murdered Adam and Eve because Satan tricked them into doing his will and not God's. He was successful: original sin is mankind doing Satan's will while all the time thinking they are doing their own will.
     Because the Devil is the father of lies, and sinners are his children, they do what the Devil desires. They do those things even unwittingly since they are Satan's "useful idiots" who serve his purpose. All those foolish people who take to the streets with vitriol are useful idiots - Satan's fools. Sure, their strings are pulled by powerful people behind the scenes (the serpents) but inevitably, they are the Devil's fools as well as evil men's useful idiots!
     Children learn manipulation because they inherited original sin from Eve - the mother of all. It's in their DNA and immediately even innocent babies learn to manipulate. Parents quickly become Pavlovian, even treating the child when the bell is not rung! Parents are conditioned to spoil children who need only ring the bell to obtain pleasure. Early on it may be for nourishment or attention, but they soon learn that they can get things by manipulation. Of course, that is their method of obtaining comfort and nourishment but they soon use manipulation to get what they want, either things or wants.
     Children are cunning, oftentimes smarter than the parents. Their technique works this way: if you don't give me what I want, I will be upset. Of course, good parents don't want to upset their child because conflict is inevitable. Parents allow themselves to be manipulated for two reasons: (1) to spoil the child or (2) they are afraid of conflict. What if Eve had not been manipulated with the first cunning device? Obviously, the serpent would have even used more cunning to get his will. Children act like their father and use his techniques!
     Right now, as they read this, parents don't like the idea that I am comparing their children to the Devil. I don't like it either, but until God emancipates them from Satan and adopts them as his own, children will do the will of their father because they are like their father genetically. Adoption should change things.

Ephesians 1:5 (God) having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself.

     Christians should change their will in congruence with Satan to be in harmony with God's will. To be blunt, Christians should not hate others by manipulation. They are to do unto others as they would have them to unto them! Nobody likes to be manipulated. With children, it may be cute but from adults it is repugnant!

     Unfortunately, some children never grow up. They enjoy being the master of those around them, treating them like the Pavlovian dogs weak parents are conditioned to be. Children who manipulate their parents are not honoring them as they are commanded to do!

     What do strong-willed children need to do? Change! What do strong-willed adults need to do? Change! Who can change people? God can! People enjoy being around those who are kind, considerate, respectful, truthful, and straight-forward. They don't like being around those with hidden agendas! Ask yourself: "Do I enjoy manipulators?" If you do, then you enjoy manipulation. That is foolish!