i.e. - hate the sin, not the sinner?
2007-06-20 07:05:11 · 32 answers · asked by Still*Perfect 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why should i hate you for what you do and i have no right to judge you in the first place.
2007-06-20 12:08:53 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but what you do is a part of who you are.
However, sin is an outdated concept. Half the supposed "sins" are about worshipping a fictional being and most of the rest are about not being human. Sorry, but if you could cut off your emotions and no longer "covet" something, you wouldn't be a human. Such complete thought control is impossible for anybody with a human brain. The same thing goes for judging others. If you are human, you judge everything about your environment. We're especially geared towards judging other people.
Instead, just recognize that we're human, and as such, we have good characteristics and not so good characteristics. Also recognize that judging other people is a good thing, as long as you do so on real issues and not just arbitrary nonsense. It is also a part of who we are, as humans. It is OK to hate something about a person. However, you should also take the person as a whole package and not just dwell on trivial faults, or even fairly major ones. For example, Ghandi was a racist. However, he also did much good in the world. Which do you judge him on? Personally, I try to judge him on both and weigh each characteristic's contribution to who the man was. Given that, and the culture which he came from, I think he was a great man, though no saint.
2007-06-20 07:08:08 · answer #2 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love the sinner, but hate the sin...
2007-06-20 07:08:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
One must hate the sin, not the sinner. The sinner ( we all are) is a person worthy of love, loved by God. The sin, the act in istelf is the one to be abhorred, shunned and avoided.
2007-06-20 07:09:54 · answer #4 · answered by Dominicanus 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Obviously, forgiving yourself is part of forgiveness.
The problem with the love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin line is that most who use it aren’t very loving toward the “sinner” Most seem quite capable of spouting the line with their mouth while reaching for a stone to throw with their hand.
2007-06-20 07:15:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's actually much easier than it sounds. It's a matter of keeping in mind the act does not define the person. It's like looking at a policeman and recognizing that being a policeman is his job but there is a person holding that position that has individual feelings, desires and thoughts. It's the same with someone who is doing something self-destructive.
2007-06-20 07:11:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then you would just have an excuse so you could put the blame on the sin instead of taking responsibility for your actions. If you don't like the sin that you are doing then don't do it. Sometimes it's harder said than done though.
2007-06-20 07:10:50 · answer #7 · answered by logan28 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the Bible teaches this and so it is true spiritually. Probably without God in your heart, it isn't possible.
Read Jude: verses 21 thru 23; Matthew 5: 44 thru 46; then Luke 6: 31 thru 33.
That's the truth!!
2007-06-20 07:18:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's just a way of saying that hatred of the person is definitely on the table. Nobody really means that when they say it.
Seriously, hate, the word, is way overused. I only hate one thing - tight underwear - and I pretty much have control over that. So when I say I hate tailgaters I really don't mean hate but I do wish they'd pay closer attention or at least switch lanes.
2007-06-20 07:09:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Perhaps. But not if "what you do" is a fundamental aspect of who you are.
For example, if the love of your life is a person who happens to be the same gender as you, and you want to remain in a committed, monogamous relationship together for the rest of your lives...
And then some self-righteous individual tells you that they "love you" but that they "hate your sin"...
Then they are lying. They hate your values, and they hate the core of your feelings and wants and desires. They hate the very essence of who you are. Ergo, they hate you.
But they'll never admit it. They'll still claim to want to "save" you as they go about making your life hell.
2007-06-20 07:11:26 · answer #10 · answered by GeoffTrowbridge 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Absutively... Hate the Adultery... Love the Adulterer.
( When I was a young 'un, I loved a couple of 'em! )
And Hate the Covet, Love the Coveter - 911 Carrera's are worth coveting, especially in a Capitalist nation...
2007-06-20 07:08:18 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋