For instance Mary and Joseph and Company Praised God when Herod died
and here we have a Scripture saying .... I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.
Jesus said those that do not believe in Him will be damned , he said I am the way the truth and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but through me.
Liberals hate all these scriptures, also when Jesus said Go and sin no more, they like to leave that out. ' Jesus/God is Love absolutely dont get me wrong.
I dont believe anybody was slapped down for the comment...I hate those Lord that hate you
How true.
Also, you can LOVE a person in a Godly sense but not LIKE them at all.
Certainly the bible tells us "God is love". But too many people use that to try and define God by their own notions of what love is rather than defining love by what the bible tells us of God.
In addition, these lib pukes think that Jesus was some peacenik liberal. You should see their faces when I reminded them that Jesus whipped and beat the crap out of the merchants who turned the temple into a marketplace.
Psalm 139:22
I like that one...
“I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them my enemies.”
Amen. Those who are enemies of my God have to be destroyed.
I have a different interpretation about what Jesus said when He said certain things are sins. Many Christians think divorce is a particularly bad sin because Jesus mentioned it. My take is that Jesus was pointing out that we sin almost all the time. We thought divorce was “ok”, but it turns out it isn’t. I think He was addressing people who felt they followed the letter of the law and Jesus was pointing out that they weren’t and that everybody was sinning all the time.
First of all, where do you get that Mary and Joseph and Company “praised God when Herod died”? I don’t see them praising that fact anywhere (cf Matt 2:13-23).
Secondly, let’s be clear here: Psa 138 (139) is a Psalm of David. So it’s David who is saying he “hates them [his enemies] with perfect hatred” not God. God does hate sin but not the sinner.
We are indeed exhorted to love our enemies but this doesn’t mean to bow down to them in submission at all times. Sometimes love is saying “no”. We aren’t to hate people but we are to hate their sin.
Scripture is quite clear in all of these points. Let’s not think that loving enemies means being nicey nice to them all the time. But let’s also not think that Scripture somehow gives us permission to *hate* them sometimes. No, we are to love them all the time. Sometimes this means saying no, sometimes it means enduring their persecution. Vengeance is God’s to mete out as He chooses.
Also don’t fall into the common mentality trap that equates love with “liking someone a lot”. It’s not.
Love (as talked about in Scripture) isn’t an emotion it’s an action (or inaction). The point is just because you love someone that doesn’t mean you have to like them, at all.
Love, like, dislike, hate? Whatever. I pray nightly for the good, bad, and evil.