What do you think of the concept of "loving the sinner but hating the sin"?

Answer 1

If used with homosexuality as it usually is, I believe there's no way Christians can hate homosexuality but love homosexuals. It's a part of who they are.

Answer 2

God got here to earth and died so as that sins should be forgiven. He did that because He loves the sinners. yet, the Bible is sparkling that God hates sin (as you would assume in the adventure that they were nailing you to a flow for them). those who trust that Jesus replaced into all-loving look to overlook that he's an similar God because the wrathful God defined in some element contained in the former testomony. the full Bible is the written revelation of God to guy. Ignoring the wrathful nature of God is a severe mistakes. saying that the absence of the phraseology contained in the Bible exhibits that the idea isn't contained in the Bible is clearly no longer real and is a fairly glaring lapse in common sense. Why ought to God want to forgive some thing He does no longer hate besides?

Answer 3

I think it is exactly what we are called to do but many people confuse both the love and the hate parts. I have a feeling many are going to misunderstand your question.
Jesus had no problem loving sinners and calling on them to walk away from their sin, as Christians we are obligated to do the same thing.

Answer 4

I prefer "loving to sin with the sinner", but that's just me. Christian theology would support your idea. Its certainly the credo of Jesus, at least some of the time. You'd never know that by observing the some of the most prominent practitioners of the faith that bears his name, though, the Jerry Falwells, etc of the world. Every generation needs its Pharisees it appears.

Answer 5

It's a nice idea for someone who's actually capable of carrying that out. Unfortunately, none of us realistically are. We let prejudice and hatred of the person seep over from our hating the sin, and now we're so used to just throwing this cutesie little phrase out there that we don't even realize how hateful we are.

Answer 6

Hello That Hen Again.. :)

I know it seems like an "oxymoron" to a lot of people (I too used to think this way)..

But for a believer in Christ..it is possible to separate the two..

When I talk with someone that is not a believer in Christ, I do not tell them they are sinners, I share with them the Love and compassion of Jesus..to let them know, that I am here for them..

We are not to judge others, but we are called to Love.. :)

I go to prayer unto the Lord, to ask the Him to touch their hearts and cleanse them from their sins..

Great Question.. :)

In Jesus Most Precious Name..
With Love..your Friend..In Christ.. :)

Answer 7

This is probably the most difficult task mankind has. Unlike God, we do not have the "full" capability of seperating the two. But, because all men are sinners and because all men are created of God, it is something we must strive for in order to be as much like Jesus as we can be.

Answer 8

It's a cop-out, a way to allow intolerance, ignorance, and discrimination to run rampant without actually doing anything to change it.

From one of my favorite religious commentary sites:

" 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."

http://elroy.net/ehr/fighttheright.html
Scroll down to about half down the page.
Peace,
Jenn

Answer 9

SIMPLE MIND AND POPULATION MANPULATION AND CONTROL BY THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS. Sin is a myth as it implies God is gonna get mad.
There are of course things people do that should not be done, we all what those things are and some are even society imposed, such as the custom of wearing clothes and having seperate bathrooms for men and women.

Answer 10

Love the sinner, hate their clothes!

It is one of the stupidest and most hypocritical statements ever made by the haters.

Answer 11

God love all of us sinners but he hates our sin.