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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
Hatred is like murder
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Never mind but you are correct.
Hatred and murder are synonymous!
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Not necessarily. It all depends what you hate. For example, hating racial discrimination is hardly synonymous with murder.Never mind but you are correct.
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Hate is much like a powerful acid. It corrodes the container in which it is stored as much as the object on which it is poured.
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And yet I think we are allowed to think freely. I think we have to act out our hatred before we are guilty of sin.Never mind but you are correct.
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1 John 3:15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
Beneath every commandment seen in the letter, is a spiritual truth. It isn't just the act of adultery but lusting in the heart is the same. So it is with hatred and murder... one is a physical sin the other a heart condition that precedes the sin.
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1 John 3:15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
Beneath every commandment seen in the letter, is a spiritual truth. It isn't just the act of adultery but lusting in the heart is the same. So it is with hatred and murder... one is a physical sin the other a heart condition that precedes the sin.
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Agreed... hatred is a heart condition that precedes murder just as lust in the heart is a condition that precedes adultery. Since God looks at the heart then He sees the sin in the heart before it is manifested in the flesh.
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By the way, I do agree with you. My point is simply that hating sin is one thing, hating the sinner is another.
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Which is how I see it. Hating a person is self-destructive as it eats away at you like cancer. Hating what the person does is another thing.
Having said that, if I am completely honest, if someone did great harm to any of my family I imagine I would have great difficulty in holding hatred from them, both as a person and for what they had done. I have lived through the troubles in Northern Ireland and have watched families tormented by grief at the loss of a loved one, or loved ones, murdered by the IRA. I have also witnessed many of those families demonstrate incredible acts of forgiveness towards those who brought them so much grief and pain.
I would not wish to be tested to that extreme.
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Which is how I see it. Hating a person is self-destructive as it eats away at you like cancer. Hating what the person does is another thing.
Having said that, if I am completely honest, if someone did great harm to any of my family I imagine I would have great difficulty in holding hatred from them, both as a person and for what they had done. I have lived through the troubles in Northern Ireland and have watched families tormented by grief at the loss of a loved one, or loved ones, murdered by the IRA. I have also witnessed many of those families demonstrate incredible acts of forgiveness towards those who brought them so much grief and pain.
I would not wish to be tested to that extreme.
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