How did Jesus show us how to hate the sin, but love the sinner?

Question

Christians, let's face it. We're judgmental, and it really is wrong. Even though we are trying to help others, we are constantly criticized for this. And it then defeats the entire purpose of trying to help them.

So, let's think for a minute like Jesus...how would he have us hate the sin, but love the sinner?

Analogies would be definitely appreciated!!

Answer 1

agreed. Jesus hung out with an interesting crowd...

Peter, James and John: fishermen, the cussers
Simon the zealot: basically a Jewish terrorist
Matthew (Levi): the tax collector; enough said
Mary Magdalene: hated as a prostitute
John: considered young and foolish
the Samaritan Woman: seen as a dirty cross breed/prostitute

basically, Jesus hung around with the people everyone disliked. but He turned their lives around with His good influence, didn't condemn them and accepted them. if Lord Jesus could do this, He being God who hates sin, then so can I, who was born doing it.

Answer 2

I suppose what you're asking is how to hate the sin, tell the sinner off about the sin, yet not offend the person right?

Well the answer is this, if the person likes the sin, you should not be telling the person off about the sin if you don't want to get criticized for it. If however, the person sin because he/she was 'pressured' into it, you should bring the person back in the truth with love.

Jesus showed how to hate sin and love the sinner - adulterous woman, but He also showed how to hate the sinner who loved to sin! - Pharisees!

If you are not able to discern between the two you end up with "bruises". Some people must be told off about their sin even if they don't like it, cos they mis-lead others with their behavior and adversely affect the surrounding people.

The bible says, a fool will scold you for chastising him. But the wise will love your words of wisdom.

Choose your target(s), deliberately.


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Answer 3

The story of the woman caught in adultery is a great example.

Out of love, Jesus saved the woman from the stones of the judgmental mob.

But He didn't excuse her sin either -- before she left, He told her not to commit that particular sin again.

That's the part of the story that a lot of people leave out. They leave it out because they use this story as an excuse to justify sin, which Jesus never intended.
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Answer 4

When I was called ,I was called a watchman.Show the wicked their ways.To the believer and non believer to warn them.I tell people what the word of God said.Not my own words.I have friends and family who are not Christians.But I cry out for their salvation daily.The thing I am working on is ---treat everyone as if they are saved and my brother or sister in Jesus.
This was how I treated my atheist husband and his family.Today my husband is a youth pastor,and preacher.His mother and dad both saved before death.
But I warn people don't ask if you don't like to hear the truth.
The truth is a two edge sword,cutting to the very morrow.The truth will bring life or death.YOU PICK.<><

Answer 5

Your theory is out of context. This and passages comparable communicate approximately people in the church who're in sin. this would not talk of the international. How will we witness to those we ward off? the place did Jesus pass? what type of folk did He draw close around? Did the lady on the nicely come to Him? How relating to the lady "caught" in adultery? Did Zacchues invite Jesus over? No, Jesus met them top the place they have been. Then, did He ever say, "you're sinner. you're destined for hell." No, He gained the main appropriate to communicate into their lives and then he taught them. He would not tolerate sin, yet He replaced into tolerant, variety and affected person in the direction of sinners. isn't that love? there's a distinction between partaking in worldly events and being between the international. we ought to be the place they are, because of the fact they constructive are not coming around to the place we are. examine for the duration of the Gospels - locate out who Jesus chosen to be with (no longer in basic terms His disciples). Who did He practice? Who did He feed? Who did He heal? no longer all of those standard Him as Lord, did they? Jesus' occasion confirmed loving the sinner and not the sin. that's worth finding into. because it quite is, sin is the Church's situation, no longer the international's. the international, the sinners, are already judged (lest they repent). they are at the instant answerable for no longer needing God. Their person sins are in basic terms a manifestation of their lives devoid of God. The Church is in want of judging her very own sin. in case you seem at lists of sins in the hot testomony, those are warnings, reprimands and reminders to the Church, no longer approximately sinners.

Answer 6

I think the best example would be the story where the villagers were about to stone a woman to death for committing adultery. Jesus silenced the angry mob by telling them that whoever was without sin could cast the first stone.

When the crowd dispersed, he picked her up off the ground and told her to sin no more.

Answer 7

Is hypocrisy something that jesus taught. If not, how is it that so many christians behave that way. Hate the sin, love the sinner is hogwash, to put it politely. It makes christians look like idiots. I am sure that they cannot possibly all be this stupid, yet why is it that they act this way?

Answer 8

Actually, it wasn't hate the sin... to hate is a negative process, and regardless of whether we say we only hate a persons sin, we judge them by their actions therefore we are, in a round about way, saying we hate at least a part of them.
Personal opinion... It was more about overlooking the negative aspects of people's lives, and loving the soul within, the eternal part of them, because that is the part that ultimately is to return to 'God'.
Just a note: When I say overlook the negative, I don't mean turn a blind eye, so much as understand it is human nature to stuff up.

Answer 9

We learn from King James Version of the Gospel according to Matthew that:

'Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,

And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.'

Was there any indication to show that Jesus love all those sinners? :-)

Taking some of the references given by some of the posters and what i've given, it's not too difficult to see that the Bible written by human beings is full of paradoxes for manipulative people to use selected quotes to suit their self-agenda and purposes.

Answer 10

By inspiring his leaders (such as Jerry Falwell) to say things like this to the faithful flock:

"[homosexuals are] brute beasts...part of a vile and satanic system [that] will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven." Jerry Falwell: Quoted in Jim Hill and Rand Cheadle, "The Bible Tells Me So", Anchor Books (1996), Pages 69-70

So, how do statements like that help people? Where is the welcome mat at the church door?