If Christians are taught to love why do they hate?

Question

I am taking all Questions from your responses so I am reading them.

Love is absolute...hate the sin love the sinner is an exscuse used to justify why you don't like someone. Paul clearly states that " 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." But you do all these things against gays and more. You do not follow what paul teaches love is to do and is not to do.

"righteous Anger" "Righteous Judging" "hate the sin love the sinner" are all cop outs so Christians can justify their hate. Just as the Christian belief they have has a "right" to hate someone or something they disagree with. Christians are just looking for justification to justify their sin of hate.

Answer 1

As in any group, some don't follow the rules as closely as others do.

Answer 2

Hate is an extremely strong emotional response often the expression of unresolved anger or frustration. Christians are human beings who are just as susceptable to strong negative emotions as anyone else. Galatians 5 suggests that Christians should be full of the fruit of the spirit, Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Fathfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. If a Christian person is demonstrating these attributes then they are walking closely with God and are less likely to be hateful in any way.

Answer 3

Hate within a person for anything or anyone is really self hate. Self hate is not egoically rational so instead of looking at and finding fault within one's self (with an aim to change and improve one's self) it is easy to project the hate out onto someone else.
Mostly about 85% of everybody's spontaneous thoughts are negative, critical, hateful, angry, fearful or worrying. This is regardless of theological belief or conditioning.
All religions teach love as an ideal but almost none show their followers how to actually get down to the nitty gritty and thus teach HOW to overcome the inner emotional and fearful self to actually practice love in a genuine way.
The religions of our world today are old religions, with texts written thousands of years ago in a different age and time.
We humans are quite different now and need a more relevant, appropriate and practical, psychologically aligned theological process to follow.
Quoting ancient literature as the solution to real day to day problems is an irrelevant and meaningless way to further suppress and discount real people and real feelings.
The answer to overcoming hate of any sort is to practise self respect by being and becoming a person worthy of respect of self and others.

Answer 4

I think you have a serious misunderstanding about what Paul writes, when he says hate the sin not the sinner.
sometimes a sinful action that comes from a person to another person does not always represent the persons every day character & that sometime you should just give people a chance to have a new start with you as this can sometimes bring a friendship in disguise as it has for me.

Answer 5

Some Christians feel it is somehow ok for them to judge others and persecute the lives of others. I think many people get overzealous in their attempts to "save" people that they perceive as sinners and tend to forget that we are all sinners in the eyes of God. but this isn't the case for all of us. I have very good friends that are Buddist, Wiccan, Juggalos, some aren't sure if there is a god, and some are Christian. And I have different beliefs than most of them, but I love them all the same and hope they get the best out of life, and even though I don't understand their choices I don't constantly try to reform them to my way of thinking. I feel that as much as I feel that my Christian beliefs are the "right" ones, every other religion has the same faith in their beliefs. But I'll admit that I have a very hard time finding love in my heart for violent criminals, but I'm sure that's a difficult task for most anyone.

Answer 6

You are wrong. Just because someone says they are a christian does not make them one. God said that many will claim to have spoken his words and did his works and will be told "Go for I never knew you." The job of a christian is to show people the love and mercy of God by being an example, not a finger pointer. True christians carry a light around them and a peace that others want. There will always be people who claim to be christians because it gives them peace of mind to label themselves that.

Answer 7

Not all do. It is unfair to lump all Christians into the same group. Some do hate and that is wrong. Perhaps they are more judgmental? Of course that is wrong too. Bottom line is that Christians are sinners, saved by grace and not perfect.

Answer 8

I think some see justification that if they're omnipotent creator god can hate AND love at the same time (which I find all illogical personally), then they somehow can too. Again none of this makes any logical sense because even if I toy with the idea of such a being being able to do the same (which actually removes the whole 'omnipotent' factor and negates such a being's existence, in part) that still leaves them thinking they have the knowledge and wisdom to make the same judgements and execute "justice" the same as their "God"... arrogance, ignorance... I dunno... it mystifies me.

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Answer 9

First of all do not judge anybody, who are we to point at somebody?, besides not everyone who goes to church is a real christian, we are all in a path , just at different stages along the path, so if i make a mistake it doesn't mean i'm not doing the best that i can at the moment to be a better person. Don't try to fix somebody else.

Answer 10

a good Christian does not hate any person. He may hate what that person does or how he acts, but does not hate the person. A great many of the people who profess to be Christians still have a long way to go to be good Christian.

Answer 11

Christians are sinners, saved by the grace of God. When you first trust in Jesus, you are saved. You do not have to clean up, then ask Jesus, you trust, and then as Jesus to help you because more like Him. Salvation has three parts:
JUSTIFICATION: Given the righteousness of God, JUST AS IF I never sinned. Freedom from the PENALTY of sin.
SANTIFICATION: A daily working on yourself, to become more like Jesus, daily seeking God's will and a better heart motive in all you do. Freedom from the POWER of sin.
GLORIFICATION: The final result, when we die, or when Jesus comes back, we will again be in that perfect relationship that Adam and Eve enjoyed before the fall, Freedom from the PRESENCE of sin.

Phillipians 1:
6being confident of this, that he who began (JUSTIFICATION) a good work in you will carry it on to completion (SANTIFICATION) until the day of Christ Jesus.(GLORIFICATION).