-Removed-I think a feeling of "hate" could, in certain situations, help you to gird your loins enough to be able to empoy appropriately brutal violence. Without that feeling of "hate", you might not act ruthlessly enough and your effort to stop or prevent something bad might be ineffective.
@fmf saidYou wouldn't have to keep "hating" them, once the threat or intent had been disabled or deterred or otherwise dealt with. You could then forgive them.
I think a feeling of "hate" could, in certain situations, help you to gird your loins enough to be able to empoy appropriately brutal violence. Without that feeling of "hate", you might not act ruthlessly enough and your effort to stop or prevent something bad might be ineffective.
There is currently nobody or no thing in my life that I hate. This doesn't exclude the possibility of hatred appearing in the future, or indeed that it hasn't featured in my past. These days I tend to dislike things/people rather than hate them. There is far less emotion involved/invested in disliking something, which I think is better for my health.
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@fmf saidAgree here. Hate is a useful emotion if it is directed at the right thing. Of course if it is misdirected then it it can consume the person.
I think a feeling of "hate" could, in certain situations, help you to gird your loins enough to be able to empoy appropriately brutal violence. Without that feeling of "hate", you might not act ruthlessly enough and your effort to stop or prevent something bad might be ineffective.
God hates evil for a reason, good reason and those who proclaim to follow Christ must similarly hate it as well and with the same passion. There are misguided Christians who promote the false doctrine that God loves sinners. This is a blatant misrepresentation of what the Bible states.
Equally dangerous is the doctrine that Christians can continue with sin [which God hates with a passion], and still enter the Kingdom of God. The watering down of Gods hatred of sin and Gods promised destruction of the sinful has led to all manner of sin and evil entering the church unnoticed.
@caesar-salad removed their quoted postThis sounds like another one of those somewhat creepy posts you've chosen to delete. There have been a fair few of them.