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To: Petronski
Depends on the hatred. Hatred of an evil thing is not a sin.

However, St. John says that anyone who hates his brother is "still in darkness" even though he may say he is "in the light". In context, that means someone who thinks he's infallibly "once saved always saved" but hates his brother is on his way to hell, no matter how "born again" he thinks he is.

Let him who has ears hear ...

37 posted on 09/01/2006 5:47:52 PM PDT by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: Campion
Depends on the hatred.

Perhaps it would have been more clear if I had said "I'd say that that hatred is a sin."

39 posted on 09/01/2006 5:52:45 PM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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