hate the sin, love the sinner

[Drich]

A good example is loving someone with an addiction.

You can love the individual and try and help them step through recovery, and still hate the sin.

This separation of the individual from the sin, can be applied to any sin.

But what about 'sins' that aren't a matter of choice or effort on the sinner's part? Like being homosexual or not believing in god?  And the Bible has some pretty nutty punishments for sinners - if you're supposed to love the sinner, why would you punish them?

Do you think addiction is a matter of choice?

Maybe it's a choice when your not addicted, and you choose to try it, but when you get hooked it ceases being a choice. That is what I am talking about.

That is why God does not judge our 'morality.' Because we can not help but always sin (or so says Paul in Romans8) but whether or not we have elected the atonement Christ offers or not..

When we accept The atonement Christ offers we take off our morality and trade it for His morality. So when we are Judged we stand before God as Christ would stand before God and be judged.

We Are all sinners our sins of choice (Pride, sexuality based sins, covetousness) makes no matter These things are literally apart of us and we can not abandon them out right. As Paul puts it we are slaves to our sin, and as such there will be a point where we will follow our sin master. Now what seperates the saved from the unsaved, is the unsaved loves/makes provision/excuse for his sin, and the saved hates his sin, seperating the sin from the individual.