BIBLE COMMANDS THAT SIN IS TO BE ABSOLUTELY HATED
The Christians say you have to love the sinner and hate the sin. The Bible is
very clear that we must hate sin. God in the Bible he wrote, spoke of
homosexuality as being detestable or an abomination (Leviticus 20:13). Leviticus
20:25 has God saying that you shall not make yourself detestable by committing
the sin of eating forbidden food. Leviticus 26:30 has God telling the people he
will loathe them if they sin so the doctrine of loving sinners and hating sin is
a heresy.
Jesus was outraged at Peter’s tiny sin of suggesting that Jesus must not die
horribly on the cross and called him Satan - Matthew 16.
The death penalty was prescribed by God for many sins which shows that they are
to be hated so much that the doer has to be killed to stop them.
If you do not feel abhorrence for sin you are disobedient to God and not
conforming to his nature for he asks us to be very like him.
Unconditional love is said by Christians to mean loving the person but not the
sin they commit. They say God commands this love both towards himself and
towards others. God however takes a different view in the Bible in which he says
that sinners are an abomination in his sight. Read Deuteronomy 25:16. Don’t
believe the lie that God meant their sins were an abomination and just said it
was sinners for speed. Is God a bad teacher? There are plenty of examples where
he condemned sins as abominations (eg. Leviticus 18:26) and so the sinners must
be abominations as well.
Jesus Christ exhibited a loud and vehement and brain bursting hatred of sin. He
rioted in the Temple because of the buyers and sellers trading there making his
Father's house a supermarket. He said that it is better to lose a body part than
to sin with it and be condemned to Hell where you pay for your sin for all
eternity. He ranted at the respected Jewish priests and the Scribes and the
Pharisees openly calling them bastards and hypocrites to their faces (Matthew
23).
The Old and New Testaments have many statements from God declaring that sin is
an abomination - homosexuality is an abomination according to God though even if
it is a sin it is not the worst. The vast majority of us have enemies who hate
us but who do not fulminate against us and attack us with the vehemence
displayed by Jesus towards his enemies in the gospels and that of the God of the
Old Testament against the enemies of Israel. If they love us, we would hate to
think what they would be like if they hated us!
It is clear from the Bible then that you can hate people as much as you like and
treat them as if you hate them and still claim that you love the sinner and hate
the sin. You act like you hate the sinner and you can pretend that it is the sin
you hate. The love the sinner and hate the sin command doesn't help at all. It
is just words. Jesus proved his own hypocrisy if he taught us to love sinners
and hate sins. He and Christianity pretend that they want to help. By advocating
intolerance for sin, Jesus was advocating a hatred that surpasses that of the
local vandals may have for society. He tried to give you a way to hate people
more than you should or want to and still claim to be righteous.
Jesus said in Matthew 5 right at the heart of the Sermon on the Mount that if
your eye makes you lust for a woman and lust is a sin that you must hate the sin
of lust so much that you would gouge the eye out. Some take him literally but
all agree that whatever he meant he was commanding an intense hatred for sin. We
know that when we hate sin we cannot leave the person out for sins don't happen
on their own. They are what people do and they reflect and reveal the kind of
persons they are, whether they are bad or good people. To advocate hatred of sin
is to advocate hatred of the sinner. The person is the sin in a real sense. The
more people want you to hate sin the more they put you at risk of hating the
sinner even if the sinner can sometimes be loved and his sin hated. To advocate
extreme abhorrence for sin as Jesus did is advocating hatred of the sinner and
leading to it. He said this to indicate the abhorrence that he considers to be
due to even a harmless sin of lust.
One thing is for sure, when sin is hated that severely it is the sinner that is
the real target of the hate...
The duty of the Christian to hate sin proves what a hypocrite he or she is. Few
do this - very few. Maybe that is because few try to love God more and more -
they fail to love him with all their being though Jesus commanded that they must
and that its the greatest commandment.
Absolute hate of sin indeed any hate of it,
implies that if some magic could turn it into a person you must
still hate it. The view that hating sin is an indirect way to
hate the person is correct.