2007-12-20 05:39:16 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes.
Christ (after whom followers of His teachings are nicknamed) taught that we must love one another - our enemies (not hate anyone, even when they hate us).
God said that if we hate our brother (our fellowman) then we cannot say we love Him whom we have never seen with our naked eyes.
Blatant hypocrisy!
2007-12-20 05:52:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
People believe that because one is a Christian, this must mean you are perfect and inhuman as well. I am Christian, but I am still prone to the same mood swings as others and I have my bad days.
We are told to love everyone, but it doesn't mean we do. Human nature doesn't allow it, that's why we pray for God to help us love those we dislike or even hate because it is only through the Father can we achieve that.
People that tailgate but then have a bumper sticker that says "Don't tailgate" are hypocrites. But I've never met a Christian that has said "I love everybody" and then goes to speak about how they hate someone else. Also, most people that express their hatred for someone are angry, not truly hating that person in the full sense of the word.
The only hypocrites there are, are those who tell others to do something while they do the opposite.
2007-12-20 13:52:26 · answer #2 · answered by Aleria: United Year Of Faith 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah, for sure. How can you hate someone, and call yourself a Christian? Christianity is about loving your brother and sister. Christians are supposed to hate the sin, but not the sinner, like Jesus says.
2007-12-20 14:05:39 · answer #3 · answered by dreamgirl1981 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of us are perfect. Plus, we've ALL said things we don't entirely mean.
However, they'd only be a hypocrite if they told others that THEY must love everyone, but they themselves do not. That is the essence of hypocrisy.
2007-12-20 13:43:21 · answer #4 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A good Christan must not say he/she hate somebody, because God Say's all what i create is good so why should some one Say's he hate some one create by good,even not only Christan is every body you must not say you hate human bean like you why because you can not create one.
2007-12-20 13:55:16 · answer #5 · answered by ADELODUN E 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we analyze things deep enough...wouldn't everyone be a hypocrite?
2007-12-20 14:21:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-12-20 13:43:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-12-20 13:42:57 · answer #8 · answered by pattscool 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The matter is not so plain as might be imagined. It is true that the bible discourages hatred.
...(1 John 4:20-21) If anyone makes the statement: “I love God,” and yet is hating his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot be loving God, whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him, that the one who loves God should be loving his brother also.
Yet, other Scriptures explicitly use the term "hate" to show that mere avoidance or quiet tolerance of wickedness and the wicked is insufficient. Perhaps it is best to simply refer the questioner and others to the divinely inspired words at Psalms 139:21,22 from several popular translations.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Shouldn't I hate those who hate you, O LORD? Shouldn't I be disgusted with those who attack you? I hate them with all my heart. They have become my enemies.
King James Bible
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
American Standard Version
Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies.
Bible in Basic English
Are not your haters hated by me, O Lord? are not those who are lifted up against you a cause of grief to me? My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hated thee: and pine away because of thy enemies? I have hated them with a perfect hatred: and they are become enemies to me.
Darby Bible Translation
Do not I hate them, O Jehovah, that hate thee? and do not I loathe them that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies.
English Revised Version
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Jewish Publication Society Tanakh
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate Thee? And do not I strive with those that rise up against Thee? I hate them with utmost hatred; I count them mine enemies.
Webster's Bible Translation
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
World English Bible
Yahweh, don't I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies.
Young's Literal Translation
Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself? With perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.
Here are additional Scriptures which enlighten a godly view of hatred:
(Proverbs 11:20) Those crooked at heart are something detestable to Jehovah
(Proverbs 16:5) Everyone that is proud in heart is something detestable to Jehovah.
(Proverbs 17:15) Anyone pronouncing the wicked one righteous and anyone pronouncing the righteous one wicked—even both of them are something detestable to Jehovah.
(Proverbs 28:9) He that is turning his ear away from hearing the law—even his prayer is something detestable.
(Psalm 11:5) Jehovah himself examines the righteous one as well as the wicked one, And anyone loving violence His soul certainly hates.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/20061201/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_10.htm
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/bible/ps/chapter_139.htm?bk=Ps;chp=139;vs=21;citation#bk21
2007-12-20 13:46:56 · answer #9 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋