2007-10-18 12:12:50 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus told you to love your enemy, and to do good to those who hate you.
PS: I'm an atheist. Nyah nyah!
2007-10-18 12:22:28 · answer #1 · answered by nobody important 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Romans 12:9 tells us to, "hate what is evil; cling to what is good."
This could just mean evil practises, but I believe that Satin is evil. Some people are oppressed by evil, or under the influence of evil and do evil things. But I don't believe no matter how evil a person acts, he's evil himself. My reason is because he can be saved if he truly repents and comes to faith in Jesus. But I believe Satin is evil, just like God is love. Satin can't be saved. So, yeah, I hate Satin. I hate what he does, the lives he ruins, the way he takes wonderful things God created and twists them into something it was never meant to be.
2007-10-18 19:55:58 · answer #2 · answered by Jewel 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you blame the devil for making you hate, or do you accept responsiblity for your own mistakes and errors?
This might help you.
The way to understand our origins is to remember that living organisms are in a state of constant change - It's not that evolution *can* occur, but that it *must* occur, simply because there is no mechanism in living organisms to ensure perfect, flawless reproduction for ever.
Suppose you could study a population of chimpanzees in the jungle, on a timescale of millions of years. Clearly, each individual only lives a few decades, so the population is constantly being succeeded by individuals which are different from their parents, because reproduction is imperfect - and remember, this is *inevitable*. It can't *not* happen. All the time this population is inter-breeding, the genes are getting mixed together, and only genes which work well with all other chimpanzee genes will tend to get passed down to successive generations (because individuals with genes that don't work well together will tend not to survive and reproduce).
However, suppose that circumstances arise which cause a group to become genetically isolated from other chimpanzees. This could be as a result of an accident of geography (e.g. an impassable river) or breeding preference or simply great distance. There will develop two distinct groups of chimpanzees which can never again exchange genes, because they have become different enough that mating will not produce viable offspring. This is what biologists define as speciation - i.e. the population has forever split into two distinct groups. Biologists have observed many instances of speciation, so there is no doubt that it occurs.
Assuming that both groups continue to survive, it is again *inevitable* that they will diverge genetically - There is no possible way that both groups, isolated and independent from each other, can change in exactly the same ways, and the longer they continue to breed, the more different they will become. Over millions of years, given that the rate of genetic change via mutation tends to remain fairly constant, the two groups will become as distinct as today's chimpanzees and humans are from each other, and from their most recent common ancestor.
All this is based on what we *know* is true - it's not supposition or guesswork, and remember it's not just possible, it absolutely *has* to happen, because there is no mechanism in biology to make reproduction a 100% perfect, flawless process.
NB: The reason we're classed as apes is that there is no valid way to group all the other apes together that doesn't also apply to humans. In other words, whatever criteria you use to define what is an ape, in order to include chimpanzees, gorillas, orangs and gibbons, humans will also fit those criteria. Indeed, chimpanzees are more closely related to humans than to gorillas, and gorillas are more closely related to humans and chimpanzees than they are to orangs, so any classification that separated humans out from those other apes would not make any sense.
2007-10-18 19:17:56 · answer #3 · answered by JiveMan 2 · 2⤊ 4⤋
I read the Bible. Never saw anywhere in it that anybody should hate the devil or even that God hated the devil.
2007-10-18 19:25:32 · answer #4 · answered by J Maime 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd say I'm quite athy, but the devil is the athiest of them all!
Could you tell us why you hate the devil so much? Just another little part of God's glorious plan isn't he?
2007-10-18 19:18:28 · answer #5 · answered by Bigmouth Strikes Again 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I have never asked myself if I hate the devil. Interesting question.
2007-10-18 19:21:44 · answer #6 · answered by Ruth 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Love God and don't be tempted by Satan. The devil is trying to get people to follow him in his evil ways. Don't listen!
2007-10-20 15:49:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I hate the devil,he has blinded a lot of people and
decieved them as to where they cannot know God and
he will lead a lot to Hell and laugh in their face.
2007-10-18 19:24:35 · answer #8 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yep, and he has paid some visits into my presence. One I will never forget a Angel of the Lord struck him in the side with a angelic dart. True story.
2007-10-18 19:23:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I hate his wicked ways, and how he influence everyone to be just like him. He aways try to influence people to turn away from God, just like he did. Which is the reason why Lucifer ended up in hell. So he want to pull everyone down where he is. Just like they say, misery loves company
2007-10-18 19:16:40 · answer #10 · answered by Nikki 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Focus your eyes and love on Jesus, not your hate for the devil.
2007-10-18 19:21:18 · answer #11 · answered by n9wff 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋