But doesn’t Christ say to love the sinner while hating the sin?
Actually, Jesus never uttered those words and they are not anywhere in the Bible.
You know, I keep hearing this spouted as if it's Scripture, but have never been able to actually find it in the Bible. It's a modern day, Lackadaisical invention.
If given the choice to love Christ (obey him) or "love" homosexuals in the way that they say they should be loved, what are we going to do?
St Augustine wrote that phrase. He was showing how you can love your enemies which is what Christ taught. So it is from Christ as an analogy of the how to love your enemies. Love the sinner hate the sin. Of course it’s spiritual love not an unnatural.
“But doesn’t Christ say to love the sinner while hating the sin?”
Wouldn’t loving those sinners involve rebuking them?
This priest says ***When it comes to same-sex relationships, Rutherford said, “You don’t have to agree with them, you will respect them and help them.”***
Therefore, regarding homosexuals in the military he says to Chaplains: (1) Feel free to disagree with homosexuality, (2) Respect homosexuals, (3) Help homosexuals.
The important question is simple: “Will it be considered disrespectful of homosexuals to help them see the error of their lifestyle.?”
Chaplains must not resign over this. It would be far better to have them officially and publicly declared unfit for service for refusing to forget the destructiveness, the deadliness that is homosexuality and the homosexual lifestyle.
For this chaplain, who we are told in one of the articles, became a chaplain in 1990, to be a brigadier general is 21 years to BG. That strikes me as pretty quick. Something else was at work there.