Hate is easy

@Rajk999 said
This is what you said to KellyJay:

everyone else here I'm sure knows very well how you regard homosexuality, and all because that's how your loving, Christian teachings tell you to regard it. Or perhaps you are learning to think for yourself, and no longer regard homosexuality as a sin?

Here you are telling KJ that loving Christian teachings regard homosexuality ...[text shortened]... ard it as a sin.

Obviously you want Christians to encourage sin.

Why are you being deceitful.

I would be happy if Christians talked less about sins they would never commit (like homosexuality) and more about the sins they commit every day (like bearing false witness against their neighbor).

Thusly, self-righteousness should also be a sin.

@Suzianne said
I would be happy if Christians talked less about sins they would never commit (like homosexuality) and more about the sins they commit every day (like bearing false witness against their neighbor).

Thusly, self-righteousness should also be a sin.

None is righteous, not one. If you hate some sins and not others, and someone else hates those you are okay with, do you think God cares?

@KellyJay said
None is righteous, not one. If you hate some sins and not others, and someone else hates those you are okay with, do you think God cares?

I think there are degrees of sin.

That should be obvious.

Otherwise Timmy saying he's sick to stay home from school is like Hitler or Charles Manson according to you.

@Suzianne said
I think there are degrees of sin.

That should be obvious.

Otherwise Timmy saying he's sick to stay home from school is like Hitler or Charles Manson according to you.

So some don't lead to death?

@KellyJay said
So some don't lead to death?

Did you really ask me that? Really?

@Suzianne said
Did you really ask me that? Really?

It’s an honest question the entire human race fell due to a sin, you seem to be saying some are acceptable and others not. Earlier you implied you could hate someone because you didn’t agree that they were your brother. So you seem to have a more tolerant view of sin than scripture allows but correct me if I am wrong. I don’t want to call you out for something not true.

@KellyJay said
Hate is easy, we can lash out, express our rage, express our displeasure, and find fault with every breath, feeding our self-righteousness. While love always comes with a cost, it is giving grace and mercy, which are only required after being inflicted by pain and suffering by someone else. Hate allows one to walk away from someone in need, they are in trouble because they ...[text shortened]... let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

Walking in grace, love, and mercy is quite different than walking in perpetual enmity with God and others. Loving others does not mean that one must affirm everything done by them either, at times the loving thing is to say what you are doing and saying is wrong. An attitude of perpetual enmity is always going to see the worst in others, always going to find fault, even when nothing is there to see someone like that will make something up, find some way to criticize.

@KellyJay said
It’s an honest question the entire human race fell due to a sin, you seem to be saying some are acceptable and others not. Earlier you implied you could hate someone because you didn’t agree that they were your brother. So you seem to have a more tolerant view of sin than scripture allows but correct me if I am wrong. I don’t want to call you out for something not true.

Hating evil has to be tolerable. Could you ever dream that God wants us to love and treat as a brother any of the abominable people this earth has produced, like Hitler, Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer? There has to be levels of sin in regards to the punishments involved. Or do you really think God will send the child who lies that he's sick to stay home from school (maybe he's being bullied at school) to the same place he'll send someone who systematically murdered six million of his chosen people? One belongs in the Lake of Fire and one does not.

@Suzianne said
Hating evil has to be tolerable. Could you ever dream that God wants us to love and treat as a brother any of the abominable people this earth has produced, like Hitler, Charles Manson or Jeffrey Dahmer? There has to be levels of sin in regards to the punishments involved. Or do you really think God will send the child who lies that he's sick to stay home from scho ...[text shortened]... ically murdered six million of his chosen people? One belongs in the Lake of Fire and one does not.

Do you think God grades us due to our sin on a curve? The world is already under a curse, we are already by default condemned, and we only have one hope, Jesus Christ. The wages of sin is death, it doesn't say the wages of many sins is death, or the wages of the only terrible sins is death. You are comparing people by people as if there are two types, good ones, and bad ones, there is none righteous, not one, and God who is good, righteous, and just will judge us and everything will be revealed, nothing hidden, He will do right and that should give everyone pause making sure that their goodness is not what they are trusting in as if God would be lucky to have them.

@KellyJay said
Do you think God grades us due to our sin on a curve? The world is already under a curse, we are already by default condemned, and we only have one hope, Jesus Christ. The wages of sin is death, it doesn't say the wages of many sins is death, or the wages of the only terrible sins is death. You are comparing people by people as if there are two types, good ones, and bad o ...[text shortened]... ing sure that their goodness is not what they are trusting in as if God would be lucky to have them.

We are told by Jesus to practice discernment, to decide without judging. Your view of the universe as black and white, your way or the highway, and getting your jollies claiming your way IS God's way, is, in many ways, offensive to me.

@Suzianne said
We are told by Jesus to practice discernment, to decide without judging. Your view of the universe as black and white, your way or the highway, and getting your jollies claiming your way IS God's way, is, in many ways, offensive to me.

I'm not writing things to keep it personal, that would be you.

@KellyJay said
I'm not writing things to keep it personal, that would be you.

And you haven't absorbed a single thing I've said.

@KellyJay said
Do you think God grades us due to our sin on a curve? The world is already under a curse, we are already by default condemned, and we only have one hope, Jesus Christ. The wages of sin is death, it doesn't say the wages of many sins is death, or the wages of the only terrible sins is death. You are comparing people by people as if there are two types, good ones, and bad o ...[text shortened]... ing sure that their goodness is not what they are trusting in as if God would be lucky to have them.

So if your god judges us indiscriminately, and we're all condemned, what's to judge?

@KellyJay said
It’s an honest question the entire human race fell due to a sin, you seem to be saying some are acceptable and others not. Earlier you implied you could hate someone because you didn’t agree that they were your brother. So you seem to have a more tolerant view of sin than scripture allows but correct me if I am wrong. I don’t want to call you out for something not true.

We evolved as a species. We did not originate from a couple in a garden. That was a story. This is a factual statement.

That being the case, there was no Adam, no original sin. The entire human race did not fall. - Another factual statement.

Stop clinging to ancient myths and catch up with human advancement. You're holding us back as a species.