Re: Debunking common myths about Christianity -
08-26-2010, 04:20 AM
The greatest ungodly myth I've encountered, is probably that Jesus is quoted to say "Hate the sin but love the sinner.".
Nowhere in the holy Bible does it say this!
It is a lie spread by sinners in order to trick people into loving them!
(...and when the sinners couldn't pin this quote to Jesus Christ, the tried to say that Ghandi said it.)
This was first said by Bishop Augustine, in his book City of God (page 304):
“It is clear, then, that the man who does not live according to man but according to God must be a lover of the good and therefore a hater of evil; since no man is wicked by nature but is wicked only by some defect, a man who lives according to God owes it to the wicked men that his hatred be perfect, so that, neither hating the man because of his corruption nor loving the corruption because of the man, he should hate the sin but love the sinner. For, once the corruption has been cured, then all that is left should be loved and nothing remains to be hated.”
Augustine is talking about perfecting your hatred, so that you can hate someone because of HIS SINS, so that ONCE THE SINNER HAS BEEN SAVED, you are able to love the FORMER sinner.
Know the Bible:
Leviticus 19:28-29 forbids piercings and tattoos, and warns against raising ones daughters into harlots.
Romans 1:21-1:32 identifies homers as people so ungodly that The Lord has given them up.
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