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Hate the SIN but LOVE the SINNER

Hate the Sin but Love the SINNER
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“Hate the SIN but LOVE the  Sinner.” - by St. Augustine, originally contains the phrase Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum, which translates roughly to "With love for mankind and hatred of sins." The phrase has become more famous as "love the sinner but hate the sin" or "hate the sin and not the sinner"

Reference: Fr. Vincent Serpa O.P.

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Max said…
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Max said…
We are to love what God loves and hate what God hates. The idiom God loves the sinner but hates the sin is not biblical. God has general benevolence that all may know him but God only loves the elect who are no longer sinners but are justified.

Jesus came as a pacifist but when he returns he will come in glory in flaming fire with holy rightous anger with vengeance and wrath against all evildoers as he hates all sinners. And when God is done with his judgement at the Great White Throne of justice he will mock them as he utterly crushed them without mercy and throws them down to the pit in the Lake of Fire where they will spend eternity because they have made themselves worthless.