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Can we hate the sin and still love the sinner?
bonnie:
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bonnie:
--- Quote ---Will you still bail out your friend after he has mis-used your friendship uncountable times?
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--- Quote ---Is it a sign of not loving someone if you do not bail them out of trouble after repeated times you have bailed them out?
Maybe loving them is allowing them the consequences of their actions while you still be friend and stand by them.
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Bailing out those that are friends/family is not necessarily love. Maybe the greatest sign of love is not bailing someone out.Maybe that is no love at all
Johann:
Will we ever be finished with that question?
--- Quote from: reddogs on September 20, 2008, 02:40:24 AM ---Can we hate the sin and still love the sinner?
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When they steal and it affects you directly, or from the affects of who knows what damage your car, or commit adultery, is it still easy to love them........
What are your thoughts?
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princessdi:
Probably not as long as we see those we don't like as personified sin.
abrasax:
Of course we can hate the sin and love the sinner. It can be hard to seperate the two in your mind sometimes, but you have to remember that is your weakness not theirs. God tells us to love everyone. Any sort of judgement of someones character is a sin.
You speak of tough love but remember that it is not your job to judge someone and make decisions for their life. It is God's decision. It is extremely easy for Christians to think they are good people, but they are wrong. They are no better than the worst sinner. Our actions may be pure and others may be sinful but God loves us both the same, the exact same. God loves you only as much as he loved Adolf Hitler, and he created you the same as he created Hitler. The biggest sin of all (and easiest to commit) is judgment, that is a sin only God is allowed to commit.
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