(September 1, 2016 at 11:23 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(September 1, 2016 at 11:22 am)Drich Wrote: 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? if you're supposed to love the sinner, why would you punish them?
Most people that I know, would make a distinction, between a same sex attraction, and acting upon it. It's really no different than an inclination towards those of the opposite sex and sin. You always have a choice, in whether you embrace or turn away from sin.
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if you're supposed to love the sinner, why would you punish them?
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Would you say that any parent, that has ever punished their child, does not love them?
I don't understand the connection here in questioning "love the sinner; hate the sin". Is it being proposed, that if you cannot endorse and love everything that a person does, that you also cannot love them? Especially under the Christian view, but I think that for everyone, that would mean, that you cannot love anyone; including one's self.
