Hate the sin, love the sinner?

Question

what is this hatred!!!? Have I not taught forgiveness and eternal love? Why doth thou hate sin, do ye not see the beam in your own eye? Oh father, why doth these hypocrites spread hatred in my name?!!

Answer 1

really cool....the shame is we are born with a flesh nature. It's easier to point out other peoples sin than to look inside ourselves with a magnifying glass. to forgive others before we go to the father and ask forgiveness for ourselves is also a point in which we forget often

Answer 2

Hate the sin and love the sinner?


Absolutely!

However, the scripture quoted above has to do with judging others and not looking at ones own sin. That is a hypocritical scenario.

Jesus is calling us to be like Him. The name Christian comes from Christ. God is a Holy God and He hates sin. (lying, sowing discord amongst the brothern etc.) If we are followers of Christ shouldn't we? That is why it is very important that Christians share the Good News that Jesus died once and for all. He died for our sins so we could be free and He is risen! When Christians spread the Gospel of Jesus, one plants the seed, one waters and God gives the increase. That is how sinners becomes saints. We are saved by grace through faith in Christ Jesus!

Jesus has called us out of darkness and into a the marvelous light.

Agape,

Servant

Answer 3

So, according to your logic, if I commit the relatively minor sin of biting my nails in Mass during the consecration of the Eucharist, I'm not supposed to judge the much more serious sin of, say, when a man molests little kids.

According to your logic, I'm not supposed to hate what he did while at the same time praying for him that he is free from ever doing this sin again.

Reading between the lines, it sounds like your message isn't really one of forgiveness and eternal love -- rather, it's one of justifying certain questionable behavior and trying to protect said behavior from valid criticism.

Answer 4

Brian, i quite relish your honesty... and your sarcasm. ;) The Bible is complicated, for certain. you ought to administration it so as that any given act is proper. this is, for sure, manipulation. i love what someone reported about loving someone sufficient to inform the truth. for individuals that believe that homosexuality is a sin, it should be UNloving to no longer make human beings attentive to the truth. I say that with hesitation, notwithstanding. i do not imagine that Christians, or the different man or woman, ought to flow ostracizing an total team of human beings because of their selections. Jesus sat and ate and loved those who he believed were doing the incorrect difficulty. He advised them obviously what he idea yet no longer in an accusatory way - i believe this is the duty of Christians in the present day. I surely have friends and relations who're gay. i respect them. They sleep over, we eat mutually, giggle mutually, cry mutually. in some unspecified time sooner or later in each and every of those relationships it has arise that i don't believe that they are residing their surprising a threat existence because of their way of existence. I pray for all of them the time yet i'm now unlikely to offer up being friends - or relations - in simple terms because of the options they make. that should be like saying, "you keep reducing and that i believe that is incorrect. i will't have contact with you anymore." that should be so stupid; at a time even as they favor love more desirable than the different, to stroll away should be thoroughly unloving.

Answer 5

Matthew 18:15-17: "If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector." Said by Jesus Himself. Read the gospels a bit to see how pagans and tax collectors were treated.

Answer 6

God is angry with u, u r lying to us that u r jesus when really ur just some weird guy who needs to get a job. i grew up with that saying, hate the sin not the sinner. God himself said LOVE THY NEIGHBOR. Jesus said LOVE YOUR ENEMIES.

Answer 7

Shush

Answer 8

Oh I can see you are using the word of God for you conviniece.

Yes, we don't hate the sinner, we dislike the sin they commit.

Jesus loves everyone and He accept everyone in any conditions, but have you read where it says:

Leviticus 18:22
"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."


Romans 1:18-32
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

Answer 9

"Hate the sin, love the sinner" is not found in the bible. Somewhere in Psalms god says sheit hates sinners.

Answer 10

Well, you said yourself that anger is righteous when others are injured by a person's sin. Or did you forget that?