writing on the topic<\/a>, opines: \u201cThis slogan is one of the most unbiblical ideas I\u2019ve ever heard that get\u2019s touted as if it were actually a verse in the Bible.\u201d<\/p>\nWe must distinguish between exact words<\/em> or phrases<\/em> appearing in the Bible, and ideas<\/em>, concepts<\/em>, or notions<\/em> appearing in the Bible. The first quotation above seems to be talking about the first thing: the exact phrase. It\u2019s true that the exact phrase is not<\/em> in the Bible; I agree (neither is \u201cTrinity\u201d nor \u201ctransubstantiation\u201d nor \u201cpope\u201d). The second quotation seems to realize this distinction and makes the much stronger claim that the \u201cidea\u201d is not in Scripture. That is false, as I will shortly demonstrate.<\/p>\nToday, very often, saying this phrase (or similar ideas) is automatically regarded as \u201chate\u201d because that very distinction has been obliterated, by a generation of postmodern subjective relativism and hostility against the idea of objective, absolute truths (especially moral ones). To hate a sin today (as the predominant view of our culture) is<\/strong> the same thing<\/em>\u00a0as hating the sinner who commits it. To criticize just about anything anymore immediately becomes \u201chate\u201d.<\/p>\nWe can\u2019t criticize anyone for anything or point out that they are committing any sort of sin because that is regarded as personally \u201cattacking\u201d them. A person (in this mentality) is<\/strong> what they do<\/strong><\/em>. This is why discussion with anyone who disagrees has gone to the dogs. This erroneous, illogical and unbiblical outlook has permeated almost all political discussion, and more and more, theological and ethical discussion. No one can disagree with anyone anymore: is what this mindset amounts to.<\/p>\nIs \u201chating sin\u201d some unbiblical novelty? Does it mean we also have to hate the sinner<\/em> who commits the sin? No on both counts (we\u2019d all have to hate ourselves if so, because we\u2019re all sinners). Regardless of whatever is fashionable and chic and the latest fad and fashion in society (what gets us into all the coveted cliques and clubs and companies), the Bible offers this principle, among many others, and it remains true for all time. It expresses the notion, as applied to our behavior:<\/p>\n\n
\nPsalm 45:7<\/strong>\u00a0(RSV, as throughout) you love righteousness and hate wickedness<\/span>. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows;<\/span><\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
Psalm 97:10<\/strong> The LORD loves those who hate evil<\/span>; . . .<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
Psalm 101:3<\/strong> I will not set before my eyes anything that is base.\u00a0<\/span>I hate the work of those who fall away<\/span>; it shall not cleave to me.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Psalm 119:104<\/strong> Through thy precepts I get understanding;\u00a0<\/span>therefore I hate every false way<\/span>. (cf. 119:128)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Psalm 119:163<\/strong> I hate and abhor falsehood<\/span>, but I love thy law.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Proverbs 8:13<\/strong> The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil<\/span>. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate<\/span>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Proverbs 3:5<\/strong> A righteous man hates falsehood<\/span>, . . .<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
*<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sirach 10:7<\/strong> Arrogance is hateful<\/span> . . . before men,\u00a0<\/span>and injustice is outrageous<\/span> . . .<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Sirach 15:13<\/strong>\u00a0. . . abominations<\/span> . . . are not loved<\/span> by those who fear him.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Sirach 17:26<\/strong> Return to the Most High and turn away from iniquity, and hate abominations intensely<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Sirach 19:6<\/strong> and for one who hates gossip<\/span> evil is lessened.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
Revelation 2:6<\/strong> . . . you hate the works of the Nicola\u2019itans<\/span>, which I also hate.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
And it is expressed with regard to God as well (Sirach 10:7 and 15:13 and Revelation 2:6 all apply it to both God and men):<\/div>\n
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\nIsaiah 61:8<\/strong> For I the LORD love justice, I hate robbery and wrong<\/span>; . . .<\/span><\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
Malachi 2:16<\/strong> . . . I hate divorce<\/span>, says the LORD the God of Israel, . . .<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
Judith 5:17<\/strong> . . . the God who hates iniquity<\/span> is with them.<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
Sirach 10:7<\/strong> Arrogance is hateful before the Lord<\/span> . . .\u00a0<\/span>and injustice is outrageous<\/span> . . .<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
Sirach 15:13<\/strong> The Lord hates all abominations<\/span>, . . .<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
Hebrews 1:9<\/strong> Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness<\/span>; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee\u00a0<\/span>with the oil of gladness beyond thy comrades. [God the Father describing God the Son: Jesus]<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
Revelation 2:6<\/strong> Yet this you have, you hate the<\/span><\/span> works of the Nicola\u2019itans, which I also hate.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
It\u2019s clear that we are called to
love all people<\/em><\/strong>. I need not cite those passages. Anyone who knows anything about the Bible and Christianity, knows that that is what they teach. And the above passages teach that we are also to hate sin. The two are not incompatible at all. They are both undeniably taught in Holy Scripture. If we want both concepts in one verse, then the following passage fits the bill:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nRomans 12:9<\/strong> Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
\n
St. Paul tells us to love people, but hate evil and sin (any sin, but that would include sin committed by those we love, which should be everybody), and to be righteous and to believe in what is good. It\u2019s all there. If that\u2019s not enough itself, Paul also commands us to imitate him (1 Cor 4:16; Phil 3:17; 4:8-9; 2 Thess 3:7-9), and notes that he himself imitates Christ (1 Cor 11:1), and states that his followers in fact have become \u201cimitators of us and of the Lord\u201d (1 Thess 1:6-7).<\/p>\n
Since Paul has stated the principle of \u201chate the sin, love the sinner\u201d (just in different words, but the same thought), and we are to imitate him, just as he also imitates God, then it\u2019s beyond all question that the Bible teaches the notion and that, accordingly, we need to accept that and apply it in our lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Despite all this (which I find quite compelling), someone will no doubt point out that I have not yet cited
our Lord Jesus Himself<\/em>. This is true (so<\/em> far!). But of course, He teaches (and lives) the same principle<\/em> in various ways: just not as succinctly<\/em> as the above passages: most of them from the wisdom literature (a biblical genre that specializes in proverbs and practical living skills). His encounter with the woman caught in adultery is an example of His applying the principle. He exemplifies it in His actions and words together:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nJohn 8:3-11\u00a0<\/strong>The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst\u00a0[4] they said to him, \u201cTeacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.\u00a0[5] Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?\u201d\u00a0[6] This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.\u00a0[7] And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, \u201cLet him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.\u201d\u00a0[8] And once more he bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.\u00a0[9] But when they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.\u00a0[10] Jesus looked up and said to her, \u201cWoman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?\u201d\u00a0[11] She said, \u201cNo one, Lord.\u201d And Jesus said, \u201cNeither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
Certainly Jesus expressed and felt
love<\/em> for this woman. But He also didn\u2019t countenance her sin<\/em> for a second. He merely pointed out that everyone who would have stoned her was also<\/em> a sinner. Then he told her to sin no more. It\u2019s the\u00a0 last part that gets Christians<\/em> hated. If we dare to say that (especially about the most fashionable sins today), then we become objects of hate by many who don\u2019t like to be told they are sinning or in bondage to sin. They love the love and compassion and forgiveness aspects of Christianity; not so much her moral teachings (above all, those that restrict sexual activity and define its moral acceptability only within certain parameters and limits: i.e., man-woman marriage).<\/div>\n*<\/div>\n
But there is Jesus saying it, and being perfectly holy and our model. And elsewhere He predicts that we will be hated for His name\u2019s sake. Jesus didn\u2019t tell the woman to go resume her sinful life, because all is forgiven or will be forgiven, or because He will love her in any event (which would be the error that is known as antinomianism). He tells her to
stop<\/em>, because He hates sin: knowing that it destroys people.\u00a0There are many other relevant passages concerning Jesus, illustrative of the same principle that I am defending as biblical. For example:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\nMatthew 9:9-13<\/strong> As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, \u201cFollow me.\u201d And he rose and followed him.\u00a0[10] And as he sat at table in the house, behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.\u00a0[11] And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, \u201cWhy does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?\u201d\u00a0[12] But when he heard it, he said, \u201cThose who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. [13] Go and learn what this means, `I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.\u2019 For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
He loved them and called them sinners at the same time (another naughty no-no today). He obviously didn\u2019t like the sin because He referred to the sinners needing a \u201cphysician\u201d who would cure their malady. He uses the metaphor of physical illness to reflect spiritual illness (sin).\u00a0 Here\u2019s another similar passage:<\/div>\n
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\nLuke 7:34-48<\/strong>\u00a0The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, `Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!\u2019\u00a0\u00a0[35] Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.\u201d\u00a0[36] One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee\u2019s house, and took his place at table.\u00a0[37] And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was at table in the Pharisee\u2019s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment,\u00a0[38] and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.\u00a0[39] Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, \u201cIf this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.\u201d\u00a0[40] And Jesus answering said to him, \u201cSimon, I have something to say to you.\u201d And he answered, \u201cWhat is it, Teacher?\u201d\u00a0[41] \u201cA certain creditor had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.\u00a0[42] When they could not pay, he forgave them both. Now which of them will love him more?\u201d\u00a0[43] Simon answered, \u201cThe one, I suppose, to whom he forgave more.\u201d And he said to him, \u201cYou have judged rightly.\u201d\u00a0[44] Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, \u201cDo you see this woman? I entered your house, you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.\u00a0[45] You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet.\u00a0[46] You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.\u00a0[47] Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little.\u201d\u00a0[48] And he said to her, \u201cYour sins are forgiven.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
The Pharisee (well-intentioned but wrong) hated the sin but didn\u2019t love the sinner. Jesus did both. He never denied that she was a sinner. He spoke of \u201cher sins, which are many\u201d and implied that the Pharisee was a greater sinner than she was (at least in some respects). Jesus doesn\u2019t make the dichotomies that
we<\/em> habitually make, in order to be popular with people by never telling them, for their own good (lovingly, gently, and hopefully within an existing relationship of trust) that they are doing anything wrong. We love the accolades and praise of people (love to be popular and loved and adored by one and all); Jesus loves to see them stop sinning and be healed and saved (even if they shun or even hate [or murder] Him because of it). We ought to be more like He<\/em> is.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Photo credit:\u00a0<\/strong>The Woman taken in Adultery<\/i> (c. 1621), by Guercino (1591-1666)<\/span> [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dave has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated Catholic radio shows, including \"Catholic Answers Live\" (twice), \"Faith and Family Live\" (Steve Wood), \"Kresta in the Afternoon,\" \"Son Rise Morning Show,\" \"Catholic Connection\" (Teresa Tomeo), and \"The Catholics Next Door.\" His large and popular website, \"Biblical Evidence for Catholicism,\" was online from March 1997 to March 2007, and received the 1998 Catholic Website of the Year award from \"Envoy Magazine.\" His blog of the same name (now transferred to Patheos), begun in February 2004, contains more than 1,500 papers, at least 500 debates or dialogues, and over 50 distinct \"index\" web pages. Unsolicited correspondence has indicated many hundreds of conversions (or returns) to the Catholic faith as a result, by God's grace, of these writings. Dave's conversion story was published in the bestselling book \"Surprised by Truth\" (edited by Patrick Madrid; San Diego: Basilica Press, 1994). Sophia Institute Press has published six of his books: \"A Biblical Defense of Catholicism\" (Foreword by Fr. John A. Hardon, S. J., 1996 \/ 2003), \"The Catholic Verses\" (2004), \"The One-Minute Apologist\" (2007), \"Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths\" (2009), \"The Quotable Newman\" (editor: 2012), and \"Proving the Catholic Faith is Biblical\" (2015). He is co-author (with Dr. Paul Thigpen) of the inserts for \"The New Catholic Answer Bible\" (Our Sunday Visitor: 2005), and editor for \"The Wisdom of Mr. Chesterton: The Very Best Quotes, Quips, and Cracks from the Pen of G. K. Chesterton\" (Saint Benedict Press \/ TAN Books: 2009). \"100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura\" was published by Catholic Answers in May 2012. His \"Quotable Wesley\" compilation was published by (Protestant \/ Wesleyan publisher) Beacon Hill Press in April 2014. Several of his 49 books are bestsellers in their field. 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