Christianity teaches that God also loves sinners but God hates sin. If God hates sin that how can God still loves the sinner that lives his/her life full of sin? God is all good and sin is not acceptable.
2006-07-18 20:32:03 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question. I can better relate with an analogy. I firmly believe God blesses us with children that we may understand Him a little better.
I love my children. I would give my life for them. I was there when they drew their first breaths and have been with them since. Despite my love for them, I disapprove of their actions from time to time. I love them but not everything they do. My 4 year old used a thumb tack to chip the drywall and colored each hole with a red crayon. I didn't like that. It made me angry. I still love him, but not his actions.
God feels the same way about us. He loves us but not all of our actions. You are not perfect, but you are still His child.
2006-07-18 20:34:29 · answer #1 · answered by bigtony615 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We were never originally Sinful
We aquired Sin....2 diffrent parties
When eve ate from the tree we were Sin free
the moment herself and adam ate of it we aquired it then
SIn is an Act....Sinners are the people....He can and does Hate sin
But Loves us....even if we are sinners...due to the Blood of Jesus
See Jesus Shed his blood on the cross to cover our sins...and to make us more tolerable in the sight if God.....We are truly Not worthy of the air he supplies let alone his love..
But Jesus Co-signed for us so to speak lol serioulsy!
Our credit was horrible But he stepped in and got us a great deal even tho....we truly are not worthy
so We wouldnt perrish with satan
hopes that helps
2006-07-18 20:40:58 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"LOVE THE SINNER; HATE THE SIN."
This is a cop out. And, though often quoted, it's not in the Bible. It's true that God tells us to love one another as he loved us. It's also true that God says he hates sin. But Fundamentalists have taken these two diverse statements and made them into a defense for mistreating homosexuals, abortion doctors, and, heaven forbid, women who want equal rights. When attacked for their judgmental attitudes against gays, for instance, this phrase becomes the catch-all defense as to why their actions are okay in "God's eyes." By denying a gay man a right to equal and fair treatment under the law, Fundamentalists aren't "hating" the sinner - they're merely showing their displeasure with the sin. By using the national media to claim that gays are sick and need healing, they aren't showing "hate" - they're merely trying to "love" them by showing they need to be "healed."
Fundamentalists forget that we're not told to "hate the sin." We're told to forgive the sin. In Matthew 18:23-35 Christ tells of a slave who was forgiven his debts (just as Christians are forgiven their sins). This slave, however, refused to forgive the debt of a fellow slave (just as Christ asks us to forgive our fellow sinners). Christ called that slave "Evil." All who call themselves "Christian" absolutely must forgive the sins of any other sinner - even the homosexual. The moment they don't, the moment they start brandishing the "love the sinner but hate the sin" argument, they are themselves condemned by the very God they say they serve.
2006-07-18 21:40:35 · answer #3 · answered by brianna_the_angel777 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God loves the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, whosoever believeth on Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life." Jesus Christ the Son of God said that "He came to call sinners to repentance." Therefore if they do not repent of their sin, they are rejecting the love of God which was in Christ Jesus. If they do repent and turn away from their sins, and call on the Lord to create a new heart within them, the Lord will show compassion to all who are contrite in heart and repent of their sins.
2006-07-18 20:43:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a child and that child steals something. You love the child but hate what he did. Correction or consequence will follow the thievery. You will love your child and try to protect them as much as possible but at the same time try and teach them not to do it again. This is also a sign that you love them and not what they did. Same thing God does with us..... he loves us but not the sin. Do not be extremely hard on yourself. Nothing you do will earn your salvation..... remember Christ paid for your sins, so conitinue to ask for forgiveness and believe he has forgiven you each time. You can also ask for strength to overcome whatever this is and you will.
2006-07-18 20:41:57 · answer #5 · answered by COOLasBLUEice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does love us all. He cannot stay in the presence of sin.....Sin brings about separation from God. Just as you can love a person but sometimes you can't be around them because of the things they do.
2006-07-18 20:39:41 · answer #6 · answered by Godb4me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its kind of hard to explain this and most probably no one has the right understanding of this concept yet. However, an analogy can perhaps make you understand this.
You love your son, you watch him grow up, you nurtured him into the person he is today. Say, one day, he "sinned", say commited burglary. Does that mean that you stop loving your son? He is still your son, you still love him but you are dissappointed in him for committing that offense. I guess that's how the relationship between man and god is.
2006-07-18 20:38:42 · answer #7 · answered by BambooBoy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sin is disobedience to God. He wants us to follow him. Thus we the sinner through Him change our ways. Through Jesus we are sinners no more. God wants all of to be free from sin.
2006-07-18 20:36:11 · answer #8 · answered by Lupin IV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we aren't always what we do...everyone makes mistakes...and it is an understood thing in Heaven. I think it is your intent behind your actions; and how well you are equipped to handle the challenges of daily life that make a difference...and not everyone gets the same breaks in life. We are given this for a reason. Everything in Life has an opposite...so we may learn from it. So hurting one another could never be condoned...but only the wounded lash out at others...for they themselves have been hurt...and this demonstrates our responsibility to each other in our pursuit of eternal Life through our faith. Be careful not to judge others, for there are things you may not know...leave that to God. Believe it or not...we are all loved...no matter who we are.
2006-07-18 20:42:31 · answer #9 · answered by riverhawthorne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this scenario, think of God as a parent. God's child does something that God does not like. In fact he hates this act. But he still loves his child, right?
There's a similar concept in the humanistic school of psychology. Their take on it is patient=good, behavior=bad.
2006-07-18 20:47:26 · answer #10 · answered by Luce's Darkness 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where did you get the idea that god hates? God never hates. He forgives..He loves all equally sinners nor saints. Maybe you just misunderstand it.
2006-07-18 20:44:21 · answer #11 · answered by w_ordz 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋