[Grateful2God]

It is against the teachings of the Church to hate anyone. Love God; love your neighbor; love your enemies.

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[Elsie]

It is against the teachings of the Church to hate anyone.

And yet they appear to do so; wouldn't you agree?

[PeterPrinciple]

It is against the teachings of the Church to hate anyone.

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Whoa, wait a minute. That sounds good until you think about it. You are right, THE TEACHING OF THE CHURCH is to not hate, but God hates sin and those who practice sin. Hate the sin and love the sinner is a quote from Gandhi.

Rom_9:13 As it is written, “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” should also make us pause.

I refer you to the following for thought:

http://www.learnthebible.org/does-jesus-hate.html

Our God is a Holy God, don’t “pigeon hole” him into only being about love. I kinda like the conclusion:

In conclusion, the evidence is clear. Jesus hated and had reasons to hate. The question I have is: Why is it so difficult for people to imagine Jesus hating anything? I think the answer is that people today do not base their concept of Jesus on the Bible. They have created a Jesus in their own imagination. This is the Jesus of tradition and of man’s imagination; not the Jesus of the Bible. The Bible tells us of this tendency to make Jesus into something He is not and warns us of those who come and preach “another Jesus” (2 Corinthians 11:4

The Jesus of popular conception is “another Jesus.” He is more like Santa Claus (another invention of the human imagination) than the Jesus of the Bible.

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As a final note this does not negate what God says about love. He is both, but it is our puny minds that can’t reconcile this and think it is one or the other.