Hi Janet
Without viewing the said site, perhaps a refutation of their position are
the words of St Augustine, "Love the person, hate or reject the sinful
behaviour." Plenty of people identify with the position that if you do not
accept what I do you reject me. But that is a bit to close in identifying
"human nature" with "human being." There is a distinction.
Seems to me that that was the approach of the adulterous woman who Christ
told to "go and sin no more." I appreciate that this part of John's Gospel
is not in the most ancient manuscripts but the principle still applies.
Peter Brunt
If a lurker might ask a question - I, too, looked at the site and am
saddened at that sort of hatred. But what is the correct refutation for
their assertion (backed up by scriptural references) that God DOES hate some
people? That is a question asked out of a regrettable (but hopefully
correctable) ignorance - I can not believe they are right, but, from a
scriptural standpoint, WHY are they wrong?
Janet Rice
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