Yet Another Lie from the Mouths of 'Christians'...

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"Love the sinner, hate the sin!"

Does that phrase sound familiar to you? This simple phrase has been spreading like a disease among both Mainliners and Evangelicals for many many years now. I can remember hearing this and buying into it at a very young age as I had been drawn in to the Unregerate-Friendly Church some years ago. However I learned something today that startled me to be sure. You may be familiar with said quote... but you may not be aware from whom it came.

"Love the sinner, hate the sin."
--Mahatma Ghandi

... wow. "Christians" are taking THEOLOGICAL ADVICE... from a HINDU??!?!!?

WHAT?!

We should be quoting our Lord Christ Jesus in confronting sinners about the gospel-- "Repent and believe in the gospel!" (Mark 1:15). Do we hold the words of an unregenerate Hindu above those of Holy Scripture? Actually, let's take a look at what the BIBLE says about God's relationship to unregenerate sinners:

"For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil may not dwell with you. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes; you hate all evildoers."
--Psalm 5:4-5 (ESV, emphasis added).

... and what the Apostle Paul records God's relationship with sinners...

"... We all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of man kind."
--Ephesians 2:3 (ESV, emphasis added).

... and from the mouth of our Lord Christ Jesus...

"Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
--John 3:36 (ESV, emphasis added).

So does God love his creation in a general way? Yes. John 3:16. NEVERTHELESS, the notion of "Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin," is NOT of God. It is another lie straight from the pit of Hell. It is a phrase we use because we don't want to offend the homosexual, the fornicator, the drunkard, or the dishonest.

But guess what? The gospel is offensive. Telling people that if they don't repent, they go to Hell-- that is offensive. We are to preach the gospel, not "love people to God" (whatever the crap that means!)! We know that the unregenerate (not-born again person) will not enter into the Kingdom. The person MUST REPENT and call on the name of the Lord to be saved! AND THAT is the GOSPEL! That even though God's wrath abides upon us from birth, if we repent and put our trust in the Savior, we are spared from eternal damnation and receive salvation by grace through faith as a gift from God!! (Ephesians 2:8-9)

"But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? ... So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ."
--Romans 10:14,17 (ESV, emphasis added)

So Christian, let's use the BIBLE in describing God's relationship with sinful man, and not the false teaching from a man of a false religion.

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