To God sinful hate is to allow bitter feelings to dictate your actions so that harm will come from it. This is what Cain did when he killed his brother. However, God tells us to hate sin. Do you think this is alright to do?
2007-11-28 09:01:17 · 14 answers · asked by Bobby B 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I'll answer with scripture:
Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
2007-11-28 09:17:15 · answer #1 · answered by Questions_I_ask 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hating sin is still hatred.
The "love the sinner; hate the sin" thing is just a cop-out that many Christians use. And, though often quoted, it's not in the Bible. It's true that God tells us to love one another as he loved us. It's also true that God says he hates sin. But Christians have taken these two diverse statements and made them into a defense for mistreating homosexuals, abortion doctors, and, heaven forbid, women who want equal rights.
They forget that we're not told to "hate the sin." We're told to forgive the sin. In Matthew 18:23-35 Christ tells of a slave who was forgiven his debts (just as Christians are forgiven their sins). This slave, however, refused to forgive the debt of a fellow slave (just as Christ asks us to forgive our fellow sinners). Christ called that slave "Evil." All who call themselves "Christian" absolutely must forgive the sins of any other sinner - even the homosexual. The moment they don't, the moment they start brandishing the "love the sinner but hate the sin" argument, they are themselves condemned by the very God they say they serve.
2007-11-28 09:04:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course. God hates sin. What Cain did was not hating sin but hating his brother and hating God because God praised his brother's offering but not his.
2007-11-28 09:06:15 · answer #3 · answered by William D 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are supposed to hate the Sin and love the Sinner.
2007-11-28 09:08:45 · answer #4 · answered by dubc1976 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hating sin and sinful hatred are not the same thing.
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2007-11-28 09:04:52 · answer #5 · answered by Holy Holly 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hate what God hates!
2007-11-28 09:07:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Hate is a worthless and crippling emotion that does at least as much harm to the hater as it does the hated.
2007-11-28 09:04:28 · answer #7 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it is alright to hate false teaching.
2007-11-28 09:09:15 · answer #8 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No..
Hate the sins
Love the sinners
2007-11-28 09:09:40 · answer #9 · answered by sweetie29 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it's hard to hate sin when all the fun things happen to be sin =( =)
2007-11-28 09:04:49 · answer #10 · answered by AFRICANA 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋