M
In reference to the thread "Why Christians hate gays", I am here to tell you that REAL Christians do NOT HATE any people at all. REAL Christians see that all of mankind is made in the image of God and KNOW that God died for each and every person. What God hates is sin according to His written word. He hates idolatry...and almost every type of sin is based in idolatry. It is the loving of that abominable behavior, action, or type of thinking MORE than what God says about it in His word. THat is idolatry! He hates glutony, fornication, lying, homosexuality, murder, fear...the list goes on! He hates these things because every single one of them keeps every one of us FROM HIM. Being a HOLY God, He cannot be in the presence of sin! It is of our own choosing to speak, act or believe in contrast to His written word. He is a just God; He has laid down the requirements that we are to follow in order to be in His presence...and to be allowed into His Kingdom. And us not being able to be in His presence makes Him angry! It is the SIN He hates, not the person.
"Christians" that hate the people that sin are falling FAR short of the character of Christ!!! Have they read the Word of God? Did they miss the part where Jesus...God HIMSELF, sat and ate with known sinners?? Did they read where Jesus said that He did not come for the righteous, but for the LOST??
Every person that purposes to practice a form of sin that is mentioned in the written Word of God is CHOOSING to deny God's love for them. It is the literal spiritual suicide of His children! How would you feel if your own child was constantly doing things that made it so they could never be around you??
Christians that HATE, are, IMO, not true believers at all. Why? Because a TRUE follower of Jesus...someone that purposes to read HIs word, OBEY His word, DO His word, has studied the Book to know the Character of God...to know the why of His 'rules and regulations' (as the world puts it). They understand that the devil will use any and every opportunity to bring sin into a person's life so that they cannot be in the presence of the Lover of Their Soul. A TRUE Christian walks in forgiveness and compassion, praying for those that are caught in the deceitful web of lies that causes any person to believe contrary to His Word and buy into idolatry.
ANY "Christian" that holds hate in their heart toward another human being is nothing more than a Pharisee and is full of false religion. That they are "Christian" is, in truth, a falicy...an affront to the Holy Spirit. They are still lost in all their religious and pious behaviors....attending church, tithing, even doing ministry! If they hate, they sin themselves. And no one that sins [purposely or knowingly] is in or can enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Maggie
"Christians" that hate the people that sin are falling FAR short of the character of Christ!!! Have they read the Word of God? Did they miss the part where Jesus...God HIMSELF, sat and ate with known sinners?? Did they read where Jesus said that He did not come for the righteous, but for the LOST??
Every person that purposes to practice a form of sin that is mentioned in the written Word of God is CHOOSING to deny God's love for them. It is the literal spiritual suicide of His children! How would you feel if your own child was constantly doing things that made it so they could never be around you??
Christians that HATE, are, IMO, not true believers at all. Why? Because a TRUE follower of Jesus...someone that purposes to read HIs word, OBEY His word, DO His word, has studied the Book to know the Character of God...to know the why of His 'rules and regulations' (as the world puts it). They understand that the devil will use any and every opportunity to bring sin into a person's life so that they cannot be in the presence of the Lover of Their Soul. A TRUE Christian walks in forgiveness and compassion, praying for those that are caught in the deceitful web of lies that causes any person to believe contrary to His Word and buy into idolatry.
ANY "Christian" that holds hate in their heart toward another human being is nothing more than a Pharisee and is full of false religion. That they are "Christian" is, in truth, a falicy...an affront to the Holy Spirit. They are still lost in all their religious and pious behaviors....attending church, tithing, even doing ministry! If they hate, they sin themselves. And no one that sins [purposely or knowingly] is in or can enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Maggie