One of the strangest and most destructive parts of fundamentalism is the "Jesus Hates You" movement being experienced in various churches around America. This may be, and in my mind is, the worst heresy against Christianity ever committed.
How did this philosophy find a foothold in a book about God's love for his sinners? To be certain, the Bible is filled with passages that display God's displeasure with his people, the Israelites, when they continue to go far astray of his laws. But each of these statements were directed to a specific situation and using them today as a foundational tenet of Christianity is pure insanity. How can Jesus tell us to love our enemies and then hate us? If God so loved us that He sent his only begotten Son to die for our sins, then how can he hate us?
The entire concept of God hating his creations is just so opposite the truth as presented in the Bible that it is difficult to wrap one's brain around. How can people believe and even preach this? They certainly have no relationship with God.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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