EmilyD wrote:
It is hard to love your neighbor if they keep on sinning. You can love them, God did tell us to love everyone, but the best thing to do is remove yourself from the temptation of condoning the sins that those "friends" are committing and that you are helping them commit. Telling yourself that it's okay to love your neighbors, even though they keep on sinning, and you keep on condoning their sins is YOU committing your own sin! If you don't want to understand that, it is your free will to do so, but having that free will can lead you down a very dangerous path for your own soul.
I think you've missed many of God's messages. Here are some of them you may have either forgotten or never read. I doubt very much you have done any significant reading of the Bible. Otherwise you would not be using it to justify your sins. There are many more passages than these about sinning and the temptation that being around sinners and their sins can cause. Again.....If you champion the sins of homosexuality and murder, you are also a sinner. It's called "willful sinning"...
• 1 John 1:8 - "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."
• Luke 17:3 - "Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him."
• Galatians 6:1 - "Brothers and sisters, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted."
• Revelation 21:8 - "But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
• 2 Peter 3:9 - "The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance."
• Hebrews 10:26 - "For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins."
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It's hard to love your neighbor when you have hate in your heart.