A statement
Apr. 25th, 2007 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkIf I say "X thing that you do is a sin" or "I think Y thing that you do is trasgressing God's law" guess what?
It does not mean that I hate you!
Let me list off a few things that are against God's law, as recorded in the Bible:
Carrying anything on a Sunday.
Eating shellfish.
Eathing pork.
Failing to sacrifice animals on a regular basis.
Thinking a lustful thought.
Saying "you're a fool"
Owning statues.
Fighting a lawsuit.
In short, any number of things that people do all the time are "transgressions." Things I do every single day. If I hated everybody I thought of as a sinner I'd hate you, and me, and JJ, and my family, and every friend I've ever had. I'd hate the Pope and the Prophet, and the President. (oh wait, I do hate that one.) I'd hate Paul and Moses and Ghandi and Einstein. I'd hate Van Gogh and DaVinci and David Webber and Melody Pena. I'd hate, in short, every single person who is currently alive, or who has ever lived, save Christ himself.
This may be a hard concept for some of you to grasp, but get it through your pointy little heads. Saying somebody's a sinner does not automatically equate bigotry and prejudice, okay?
Now if I went around spouting about how you're all going to Hell, and deservedly, that'd be something else. But when I say you're all sinners, I mean this in the nicest possible way. I'm saying that you're human beings, just like me, and like everybody else too.
It does not mean that I hate you!
Let me list off a few things that are against God's law, as recorded in the Bible:
Carrying anything on a Sunday.
Eating shellfish.
Eathing pork.
Failing to sacrifice animals on a regular basis.
Thinking a lustful thought.
Saying "you're a fool"
Owning statues.
Fighting a lawsuit.
In short, any number of things that people do all the time are "transgressions." Things I do every single day. If I hated everybody I thought of as a sinner I'd hate you, and me, and JJ, and my family, and every friend I've ever had. I'd hate the Pope and the Prophet, and the President. (oh wait, I do hate that one.) I'd hate Paul and Moses and Ghandi and Einstein. I'd hate Van Gogh and DaVinci and David Webber and Melody Pena. I'd hate, in short, every single person who is currently alive, or who has ever lived, save Christ himself.
This may be a hard concept for some of you to grasp, but get it through your pointy little heads. Saying somebody's a sinner does not automatically equate bigotry and prejudice, okay?
Now if I went around spouting about how you're all going to Hell, and deservedly, that'd be something else. But when I say you're all sinners, I mean this in the nicest possible way. I'm saying that you're human beings, just like me, and like everybody else too.
