{"id":9507,"date":"2021-02-15T03:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:03","slug":"hate-the-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9507","title":{"rendered":"HATE THE SIN?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0We&#8217;ve all heard &#8220;Love the sinner, hate the sin.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the first half definitely seems on target: God absolutely calls us to love the sinner.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But who says we need to hate the sin?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess &#8220;hate the sin&#8221; sounds good and righteous in theory, but in practice it amounts to &#8220;judge the sin&#8221;, which isn&#8217;t even a hop, skip or a jump from &#8220;judge the sinner&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe &#8220;hate the sin&#8221; would be passable advice if it wasn&#8217;t for the fact that we all have a huge self-righteousness problem. (Have you ever noticed how other people&#8217;s sins are so much worse than your own? Me too!)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesus says, &#8220;Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.&#8221; (Luke 6:37)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we harbor some self-righteous hatred of another&#8217;s sin, we are in dangerous territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0We&#8217;ve all heard &#8220;Love the sinner, hate the sin.&#8221;\u00a0 And the first half definitely seems on target: God absolutely calls us to love the sinner. But who says we need to hate the sin?\u00a0 I guess &#8220;hate the sin&#8221; sounds good and righteous in theory, but in practice it amounts to &#8220;judge the sin&#8221;, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9508,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}