When someone says, "I love the sinner but hate the sin", I've kind of wondered, "oh, so the second coming is at hand, and you're Jesus?"
2007-01-05 12:12:52 · 20 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They think that they have the right to judge. The bible is used as justification to spead hate and bigotry. Many take full advantage of it too.
2007-01-05 12:15:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people are very difficult to love. Jesus is the only one with perfect love. My dad was abusive when I was a kid--I at one time hated him. I asked God to help me forgive him and I can say that before he died I did experience some years when I loved him. I hated the sinful nature of Dad.
2007-01-05 12:20:58 · answer #2 · answered by smiley 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think they are just trying to be like God who has unconditional love for everyone. I think to be like Jesus is the ultimate goal for every person because he lived as a man and lived perfectly without sin.
2007-01-05 12:31:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, give me a brake, loving the Sinner is what God expects of us. God hates Sin, therefore we must hate Sin.
I doubt anyone but God can "Love Perfectly", but as far as we are able we must love, and forgive, but despise the Sin, including our own.
2007-01-05 12:15:59 · answer #4 · answered by Minister 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my mother says this all the time, and I truly believe that she says it because she doesn't want to be seen as condemning other people. She doesn't want people to think that she is condemning THEM, but she doesn't agree with what they are doing. She is being non-judgmental and openly admits that she, too, has some "love the sinner, hate the sin" qualities in her. To her, everyone is a sinner (herself included), and everyone should be loved, but that doesn't mean we have to agree with everything they say or do.
I think some people use it judgmentally, but don't do what they are doing and judge their motives. Some really are trying to be non-judgmental in saying that.
2007-01-05 12:18:53 · answer #5 · answered by mountain_laurel1183 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hardly. This is always (as with everything else) a choice to be made. God's grace becomes available to people that are willing to obey Him, and love their neighbor as themself. In other words, I decide that I am going to love this person in spite of what they have just done, and then God gives me a supernatural ability to do just that from within my spirit (by the presence of His Holy Spirit). It's never altogether easy. But it always produces the right results when we do that.
2007-01-05 12:19:27 · answer #6 · answered by firebyknight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who say that are mimicking the Divine attitude towards sin; they are unthinkingly supposing they too can love perfectly. Honest souls know better, of course. Perfection is our goal; not our current state of being.
2007-01-05 12:23:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have the power to forgive who I wish to forgive while I am here on earth. If the sin was against me and I forgive them then it is forgiven by GOD also. This is awesome!
I can forgive you too. I just did. If you don't like that fact then you have the rite to do and think as you wish. Isn't GOD wonderful?
2007-01-05 12:16:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not at all, Jesus commands us to Love all, and he also commands us to be Christ like, not Christ himself.
Christ hates sin, direct words from the bible. We hate sin, our own and the sins of others. We are emulating our creator, not calling ourselves our own creation.
2007-01-05 12:17:23 · answer #9 · answered by cindy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one loves perfectly. No one loves everyone.
Only Jesus does that, and he is God.
2007-01-05 12:16:49 · answer #10 · answered by controlfreak 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋