Why are so many christians hell-bent on speaking so aggresively against gays, lesbians, other religions...why? Shouldn't you love thy neighbour? Isn't that what the bible says?
2007-10-23 09:05:03 · 11 answers · asked by Space Monkey 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Their heretics and hypocrits, It's how christianity works.
2007-10-23 09:08:19 · answer #1 · answered by midnitepoets 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
It depends on what YOU mean by loving your neighbor.
Today 'love your neighbor' means tolerate them and live and let live. Other words, turn a blind eye to everything they do and say.
NO AND YES
Love your neighbor means tell him the truth about his condition and that there is a way to be reconciled with God, through his Son Jesus Christ.
He needs to know his sin - of cursing at his wife and kids, or having adulterous affairs at home behind his wife, or flattening the tires of his neighbor's cars is sin is not acceptable and is sin against man and God. (Few obvious examples of sinful behavior). If he is doing something is his privacy that's sinful - just the exposure on the obvious sin should be enough to convict hi conscience.
But after he is told what the bible says and the gospel of Jesus Christ......and if he rejects.......you continue to say hello but he knows where you stand. But Christians can not get too close to unbelievers if the door is closed (esp. with hostility).
If there is hostility, the neighbor will shun him and ignore him anyway.
Look, the gospel is an offense, we are told by the Lord to expect them to hate you like they hated me. It is expected for pagans to hate us. We can not be at peace with the sons of darkness. For what does the light have in common with the dark?
I have given you a big bite, probably too much.
Bottom line: I don't hate the person rather the sin that consumes him.
2007-10-23 16:28:25 · answer #2 · answered by K in Him 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are just sorting out the non-believers so they know who to go talk to again when they enact these passages...
1) If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst. (Deuteronomy 13:7-12 NAB)
2) Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death. (Deuteronomy 17:2-5 NLT
2007-10-23 16:19:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Christianity does embrace mankind. Mankind shuns the embrace.
2007-10-23 16:13:35 · answer #4 · answered by Hoosier Daddy 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
well besides for the direct attack on faith by the guy in the first answer...judgement ultimatly comes from God. also, the aggresivness of some doesnt reflect all, because ultimately we should love and pray for all, and act as our father would in a situation.
2007-10-23 16:10:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anthony C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's sad that a whole group of people gets tagged by the deeds of some.
2007-10-23 16:10:38 · answer #6 · answered by Papucho 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes we love our neighbors. So much that we'll do anything to help save them, even if that means getting rough with them.
2007-10-23 16:10:59 · answer #7 · answered by Leaf on the Wind 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most of them here are white race christians and they are ricists. What can we expect? Most of them never read their Bible either.
2007-10-23 16:27:23 · answer #8 · answered by majeed3245 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Scriptural Christianity does embrace mankind (who); it is why (not what; such as same sex sex) it tends to shy away from presently.
2007-10-23 16:17:59 · answer #9 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't against them.
2007-10-23 16:11:02 · answer #10 · answered by Near of DN 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋