my fellow believers..............I John: : how can a man claim to love god, who he hasn't seen.....and hate his brother who he has seen you may not like the things they say...but it is impossible to be a believer and hate them
2006-09-03 13:42:54 · 27 answers · asked by steve f 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
interesting reactions to a rhetorical question designed to have you search your own hearts and the kindness of your responses........
2006-09-03 14:01:11 · update #1
Absolutely not! We are called to love all people. We are called to hate their sin but love the person.
Now wouldn't that fix a lot of problems?
2006-09-03 13:45:00 · answer #1 · answered by musiclady007 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Hatred is not a Christian concept. What u should do is to understand them more instead. Be nice to them because it is through good attitude that u will able to prove to them the goodness of the Lord.
Re being a believer, not seeing but still having faith in God is the greatest way to show God of your LOVE for HIM. Your faith is so strong so much so that you believe HIM even tough u don't see HIM. Believing in God is using your sense of feeling not seeing because God is not of the physical world but spiritual world.
2006-09-03 13:55:04 · answer #2 · answered by Soul Sis 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No brecause God is a God of love. He hates sin, not the sinner. For God so loved the WORLD, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
2006-09-03 13:48:27 · answer #3 · answered by it's just me 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know any Christian,who hates any person for what that person does,or does not believe in. In fact hating the person is forbid en by Jesus:
He commands us to (hate the sin),but love,and pray for the sinner.
2006-09-03 13:50:07 · answer #4 · answered by starfish50 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Thats a brilliant observation of the state of christianity today Steve. One of the first questions I asked myself many years ago when I was a christian.
Keep going...... soon you may dsicover the truth.
"follow the white rabbit, see how deep the hole goes Alice"
:)
NOTE: early christians were labelled 'atheist'.
The Good whall be called 'Bad' and the Bad shall be called 'Good'
2006-09-03 13:54:02 · answer #5 · answered by CJunk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Christian is and should hate sin and hate the evils of this world, while living out love and an example of Christ's love.
I am so tired of moppy Christians who take focus off of the coming Kingdom. Too blessed to be depressed!
2006-09-03 13:44:46 · answer #6 · answered by Mike A 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
So what is it? What are you quoting if anything?
What Christian that you can verify said he or she hated atheists? I don't even think the word atheist is in any version of the Bible.
Are you twisting something?
Are you a fellow believer?
2006-09-03 13:50:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well first of all you can't see god with literally just your eyes...but if you give a little effort you can feel his love and I am a believer and I do not hate anybody
2006-09-03 13:45:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God loves each and every person - the Christian, the Buddhist, the Muslim, the guy, the female, the toddler, etc. human beings have an extremely enormous misunderstading while it involves Hell. i'm going to attempt to make this as sparkling as accessible: God is the source of affection, compassion, happiness, and mercy. Hell is a place that has finished absence from something sturdy or Holy. there's no love, compassion, happiness, or mercy. Hell, in its maximum elementary variety, is a place that has finished absence from God. human beings pass to the two Heaven or Hell via decision. in case you % to stay your life with God and for God, you have chosen to spend your afterlife with God and for God - it is in Heaven. in case you have chosen to stay your life with out God, you have chosen to spend your afterlife with out God - it is in Hell.
2016-10-01 06:50:33 · answer #9 · answered by kampfer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose it's possible but I think that makes the christian a hypocrite.
I've never understood why it is so important to some people to force their beliefs on others or hate them when they don't agree. If the person isn't hurting anyone why does it even matter to you.
2006-09-03 13:50:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A Christian makes all sorts of claims, but he tends not to practice according to his claims - that is one of the reasons that atheists look a little deeper at the faith and discover its flaws.
2006-09-03 13:49:15 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋