What is it to love those who don't follow our set of what is right or wrong? Holding up their live as sinful. Seeing only through the lenses of what faith says is right and wrong. That 'they' are going to hell. When was the authority of be judge become ours and not God's? Jesus would call out the religious leaders out on this very thing. Not being love to those who are not following the law as they do. Anyone who is a sinner is not welcome at their tables, homes, or at the temple. For, they were seen as dirty. The very same people that Jesus spent time with everyday with. Sharing life with them. Showing what love really is. In Matthew 5:43 to 48 this is what Jesus says;
"You have heard it said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies, ad pray for those who persecute you, that you be children of you Father in heaven. He causes the sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more then others? Do not even the pagans do that? Be perfect therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect?"
Hate leads to darkness and to death. And to not seeing a person as a person. Who is loved by the Father. A child of him and created in his image. He loves each of us. Despite ourselves. What we believe is right or wrong.
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