Tim-may, quit hijacking my thread. I know what the Bible says and what God hates. I am talking about christians hating people, and not sin.
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Lord, help me to learn this lesson of your infinite love for us.
That's one that we all have to keep learning and relearning, I think.
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
I have heard many times hate the sin, but not the sinner. Does it seem like sometimes some christians hate others and not their sins? I have heard and read some comments that seem hateful to me about people that are lost, and sometimes even to other christians. How do we separate the two?
When the truth is told to sinners some here call that hate. Actually when the true plan of salvation is explained to the lost,
"THAT'S REAL LOVE"
If one has real love for the lost and not the warm and fuzzy so-called love you read about here so much, one would not tell any one they are saved at repentance, or you can go to heaven without being baptized in Jesus name and filled with the HG with the evidence of speaking in tongues.
Real love seems hateful for some who lost and others who are lost appreciate someone who will tell them the truth.
You say sometimes Christians hate Christians.
Some Christians can ooze fuzzy love, some are masters at this fuzzy love.
This fuzzy love is not a real Christian love, it's called Pharisee love.
Real Christian love is standing by your brother or sister through thick or thin.
Real Christian love is having your brothers and sisters back when they are down.
Real Christian love will not ask for help then when the one they ask for help needs help refuse to help.
Real Christian love is not words on paper or the internet but real love is Godly action according to the guide lines of the bible.
When the truth is told to sinners some here call that hate. Actually when the true plan of salvation is explained to the lost,
"THAT'S REAL LOVE" ...This fuzzy love is not a real Christian love, it's called Pharisee love....
Light, it is not THAT the truth is told that we are talking about in certain threads, but the spirit in which it is told, and the attitude that goes with the telling.
Pharisee love? No. Pharisees had no "fuzzy love." They had no love at all-at least not for anyone but themselves. They were judgmental, quick to look down on others, desirous of displaying their "holiness", loving to be seen of men and praised by men. They stood on the street corners, making long prayers. They wore their prayer shawls and phylacteries as a means of proving their "godliness" when really all that they did only showed how carnal they really were.
But this thread was meant to be introspective, Light. Not an opportunity to place those one disagrees with under a microscope, but rather to look in the mirror and ask God to show us what WE really are, each of us individually.
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
How true.
He touched the lepers,
and healed the blind.
He ate with "sinners",
and met a woman at a well.
He called His betrayer "friend",
and forgave His killers.
Would that we could love with His love. Or at least come close.
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What we make of the Bible will never be as great a thing as what the Bible will - if we let it - make of us.~Rich Mullins
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~Galileo Galilei
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