Good grief. How do progressive Christians fail to understand that living thy neighbor does not imply that you condone what your neighbor does. This idea that loving someone means affirming them is dangerous. If I am in the wrong I hope someone would live me enough to call me out
Notice how they only want the love to go in one direction. Alphabet freaks are some of the most hateful people on the planet, but no one holds them to the standards of loving anyone.
Yep, if someone is living in sin, you don't just say "that's fine" and act like nothing is wrong, they're harming themselves and others around them.
Its like drug addiction (except even worse), its not "loving them" to pretend like they don't have a problem, and yes, there is such a thing as tough love at times if its necessary. Its painful, but if things are bad enough, there might not be much of a choice.
You can't control or guarantee whether or not your kids will go to heaven or do the right thing for that matter, but you can do your best as a parent to set them on the right path and be an example for them to follow. Faith in God can work surprising things sometimes even when a son/daughter might seem hopeless, but condoning sin is not something the Bible ever calls to do.
Not to mention the Bible also DEMANDS Christians to hate. Hate that which is evil, cling to that which is good.
The opposite of Love isn't Hate its indifference, Hatred is the proper emotion for seeing purity defiled, holiness blasphemed, innocence destroyed. You have to Love something enough to hate that which sullies it.
A big problem with our culture these days is that people -- even supposed "Christians" -- don't hate evil. At best they accept it begrudgingly. At worst they celebrate it. Not good.
Love would mean you do your best to turn them away from their lives of sin and actively try to bring them to Christ. Why people think love means "accept unconditionally" I'll never know
Good grief. How do progressive Christians fail to understand that living thy neighbor does not imply that you condone what your neighbor does. This idea that loving someone means affirming them is dangerous. If I am in the wrong I hope someone would live me enough to call me out
Notice how they only want the love to go in one direction. Alphabet freaks are some of the most hateful people on the planet, but no one holds them to the standards of loving anyone.
Yep, if someone is living in sin, you don't just say "that's fine" and act like nothing is wrong, they're harming themselves and others around them.
Its like drug addiction (except even worse), its not "loving them" to pretend like they don't have a problem, and yes, there is such a thing as tough love at times if its necessary. Its painful, but if things are bad enough, there might not be much of a choice.
You can't control or guarantee whether or not your kids will go to heaven or do the right thing for that matter, but you can do your best as a parent to set them on the right path and be an example for them to follow. Faith in God can work surprising things sometimes even when a son/daughter might seem hopeless, but condoning sin is not something the Bible ever calls to do.
Well said
This is fine as long as the message carrying the moral lesson is short and accurate and does not involve moral blackmail or coercion ("tough love").
Not to mention the Bible also DEMANDS Christians to hate. Hate that which is evil, cling to that which is good.
The opposite of Love isn't Hate its indifference, Hatred is the proper emotion for seeing purity defiled, holiness blasphemed, innocence destroyed. You have to Love something enough to hate that which sullies it.
Very good point.
A big problem with our culture these days is that people -- even supposed "Christians" -- don't hate evil. At best they accept it begrudgingly. At worst they celebrate it. Not good.
Love would mean you do your best to turn them away from their lives of sin and actively try to bring them to Christ. Why people think love means "accept unconditionally" I'll never know
Me neither