does jesus love everyone?
like people of different religions?
and rapists?
and pedophiles? and just like overall bad people?
does he really love everyone?
2007-11-01 14:05:49 · 23 answers · asked by greekgodess 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I understand that your question is not mocking. My answer is that, yes...Jesus loves everyone. Why? No one is perfect, we are all sinners. To become a Christian, a person must repent of his/her sins and accept Jesus as their Savior. If we had no sins to repent of, how could we change and "become a new creation"? Have you read about the 2 thieves who were crucified along side of Jesus? One of them repented while hanging on the cross, and Jesus told him, "Today, you will be with me in Paradise." That is why Jesus loves everyone, because there is hope for everyone.
Someone once asked me to describe Jesus in just one word. My answer was "love". He would have us love everyone, even our enemies.
I hope I've helped you.
2007-11-01 14:19:30 · answer #1 · answered by artistagent116 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.
After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.
Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.
I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.
I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.
If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.
I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.
Love and blessings
Your brother
don
2007-11-01 14:07:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God loves everyone in the sense that He is patient with all people and puts up with a lot. However, the Bible says He loved Jacob and hated Esau. Thankfully, He loves repentant sinners like me. Remember, love is not just something you feel. It's something you do. John 3:16
2007-11-01 14:12:16 · answer #3 · answered by Cee T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I honestly don't know the answer to that. I see everyone else answering and saying he does but I don't understand how he could love someone who could do such evil. Perhaps if it's caused by a mental illness, something they can't help but if not, if it's done by the evilness within them then I don't see how Jesus could love them. That's just my opinion.
2007-11-01 14:19:50 · answer #4 · answered by Star 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Jesus loves everyone, but He doesn't love what they choose to do. He created us and gave us free-will the ability to choose what and how we live our life. So yes He loves us all, but not the sin that we do. He loves us so much He died on the cross for us. He took our punishment for our sins.
2007-11-01 14:13:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I LoVE ur question! its a different kind of love. see unlike us he understands the reason behind peoples actions but most people just see a pervert. it doesnt justify it. Jesus just waits that they repent. but he does love them in the way that a parent loves his kid even through the good and bad. its unconditional. you just hope they repent and dont do it again. its like a mother of a criminal. shes always going to love him but what she doestn love is what he DOES.
2007-11-01 14:11:31 · answer #6 · answered by Love101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He loves everyone but he hates their sin.
He loved us so very much knowing we were in sin and he died for us. Even if you don't accept him he still loves you.
If we confess our sin he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin.
But regardless of your works and how good you are or even how wretched you are Jesus still loves you!!
2007-11-01 14:13:45 · answer #7 · answered by Housewife24/7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Jesus loves everyone, even the scum of the earth, then his love is much too shallow and generalized to be meaningful.
2007-11-01 14:10:25 · answer #8 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. It is possible to love someone and hate what they do. Ask (almost) any parent with a child convicted of a violent crime.
2007-11-01 14:08:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus loves those who do the "will of his Father".
2007-11-01 14:09:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋