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Debunking The ‘love The Sinner, Hate The Sin’ Myth by Ajibam: 6:17pm On Nov 04, 2014 |
If you've been in the church for a while, I'm sure you've heard this phrase: Love the sinner, hate the sin. We know we're called to love all people, but we use this phrase to explain how we can love people, even when we don't agree with how they're living their lives. It's understandable that we'd desire a phrase like this. It's hard to know how to love someone who is doing things we know are clearly wrong or harmful to them. We don't know how to love that person while not feeding into the belief that what they're doing is okay. Our love for people and our conviction about what they're doing are two heavy things to carry, and we often find ourselves falling to one side of grace or truth. And while this is a valid and understandable struggle, I don't know if this phrase is really the key to solving this tension. Here are three reasons I'm not sure this phrase is helping us become more like Christ: 1. It introduces hate into the conversation. The first thing to note is that Jesus has never been about hate. Jesus talks about love and grace and mercy, but never hate. So introducing hate into the conversation is automatically a deviation from His teaching. Also, if you've ever been on the receiving end of the "love the sinner, hate the sin" mentality, it's hard to feel the difference between your sin being the target of the hate and being the target yourself. 2. Jesus didn't shame people. The woman at the well and the prostitute in the square are great examples of how Jesus treated sin and the people trapped in it. In the case of the prostitute in the square, while the Pharisees were up in arms about her sin, Jesus paid little attention to it. He didn't condemn her, or shame her, or make a point of loving her but not her actions. He just loved her. And then He gently guided her toward a different kind of life. 3. Changing someone's sin isn't our responsibility. "Love the sinner, hate the sin" implies that other people's sin is our responsibility to fix—as if we're going to change the sin by treating it a certain way— and that's just not true. When we make ourselves the "sin police" we get into murky territory, straying far to the side of truth and losing much of our grace. We aren't responsible for fixing, or removing, or condemning someone's sin. We're responsible for love. God takes care of the rest. Tags:Italo, FrancisTony, chukwudi44,salC.. Does this pertains to what one of you guys said on a thread about homosexuality, that you love the sinner but hate the sin! http://ministrytodaymag.com/index.php/ministry-life/relationships/21309-debunking-the-love-the-sinner-hate-the-sin-myth |
Re: Debunking The ‘love The Sinner, Hate The Sin’ Myth by Nobody: 6:31pm On Nov 04, 2014 |
Huh? In a summary, you mean we should hate the sinner? |
Re: Debunking The ‘love The Sinner, Hate The Sin’ Myth by Ajibam: 6:52pm On Nov 04, 2014 |
FrancisTony:Guess you did not read the post! |
Re: Debunking The ‘love The Sinner, Hate The Sin’ Myth by herald9: 7:33pm On Nov 04, 2014 |
Sin is a voluntary activity... If the sinner knows he's sinning and still goes back to it, that means he's deriving pleasure from it. Making it your business is a sin cause you should be wary of him before you get infected. But then.... That's discrimination! If you try explaining and he doesn't seem to see reasons with you that's when you got to leave him alone. 1 Like |
Re: Debunking The ‘love The Sinner, Hate The Sin’ Myth by Nobody: 7:59pm On Nov 04, 2014 |
Ajibam: I did so. I'm sure that was your aim for creating this thread. |
Re: Debunking The ‘love The Sinner, Hate The Sin’ Myth by italo: 8:06am On Nov 05, 2014 |
Ajibam: John 12:25 25 Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Luke 14:26 26 “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple Tell me again, who introduced hate into the conversation? We...or Jesus? Now that I have debunked you and your fallacious erroneous ministrytodaymag.com can we move to other things...or do you still want to argue blindly? Leave those false teachers and come to God's one true Church. 2 Likes 1 Share |
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