I understand your inner conflict completely. I hate that I hate, but there it is.
One can also PRAY for the lifting of all hatred from one's heart.
That does not qualify as a vanity. Your post is FR first hand reporting. Good job.
There is no love without hate. Don't take my word for it. Ask Jesus. (Luke 16:13.)
Wow. How long has he been rambling on. It’s all about me. Blah...blah...blah.
Hillary says that “deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed”, implying that the force of law should be used.
As a Christian, I struggle with a lot of sinful habits and find myself in need of His grace, mercy and forgiveness very often. But I also struggle with my contempt and what I think is outright hatred for people like 0bama, the Clintons, establishment Democrats and Republicans, etc.
Jesus taught us that hate is a sin no different than murder. While my reason for hating are just, my hatred is not just and God does not like it.
I have to remind myself God loves them too and Jesus died for them as well. I remind myself of than and it helps. Then I pray for God to remove them from postions of power and replace them with more Godly people. Then I pray for those in power to repent and turn their hearts to the Lord.
Try it. You will feel better spiritually.
I don’t think it is hateful or wrong to hate Evil.
Go TRUMP! BE done with this crap.
“Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.”
Psalm 139:21-22
Christianity is not always just green fields and dozing sheep, nor submission to earthly powers. Sometimes it is kicking over the banksters’ tables and laying about with a whip. Sometimes it is shoving a sword into a corrupt ruler’s guts. Sometimes it is hanging Haman from his own gallows.
Churchianity is no substitute; it is a make believe form of worship, bound by hall monitors’ rules. Christianity is much more complex, and non-intuitive.
The Golden Rule applies here. Most of us don’t want to be hated, and should not hate in turn. Plus, we really, REALLY should not wish hell on anyone. God Himself wishes all mankind to be saved; we can do no less:
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
We need to pray that Obama is stricken with guilt, goes down on his knees and begs forgiveness. After that, he’d spend what remains of his term praising God and undoing as much of the damage he’s done as he possibly can. We all win.
1 John 4:20
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates hisbrother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
ML/NJ
“progress is not possible if we choose to preserve our identity”
And there it is, the bottom line.
Here are three verses on “hate evil”
Psalm 97
10 You who love the LORD, hate evil!
He preserves the souls of His saints;
He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
11 Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.
Nelson, Thomas. Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 585). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
Proverbs 8
13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverse mouth I hate.
Nelson, Thomas. Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 622). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
Amos 5
15 Hate evil, love good;
Establish justice in the gate.
It may be that the LORD God of hosts
Will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
Nelson, Thomas. Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 894). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
So if you recognize Barack Obama as the embodiment of evil, then it is required to hate him! He is not your brother. We know that one third of the angels, and two thirds of humanity is headed to the Eternal Lake of Fire. We also know that Elohim will do the judging and make the final decision.
But not being able to listen to the spouting of the Devil is a good thing! It shows you are not under the Great Delusion that is coming to the Earth.
Oh yeah. There's three to draw to.
You ought to not listen to him speak. I always turn off the screen when he shows up.
I’ll just be raising my blood pressure and my hateful feelings. Ignoring him is the best strategy to keep your hate under control.
You are not alone, My FRiend. I also share your sentiments.
And don't hand me that nonsense about his being ineligible.
For it is a great punishment and a severe
judgment of God, that one would hold God and
His Word in such contempt, that one would not
hear it and will neither honor nor respect His
ministers.
there is a sin that leads to death that we are
advised not to pray for.
that is for the people who claim to be Christians
but have departed from the faith.
1John 5:16
16 If anyone sees his brother [believer]
committing a sin that does not [lead to] death
(the extinguishing of life), he will pray and
[God] will give him life [yes, He will grant life to
all those whose sin is not one leading to death].
There is a sin [that leads] to death; I do not say
that one should pray for that.
and it is described here........
Romans 1:24-32
24 Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of
their [own] hearts to sexual impurity, to the
dishonoring of their bodies among themselves
[abandoning them to the degrading power of
sin], 25 Because they exchanged the truth of
God for a lie and worshiped and served the
creature rather than the Creator, Who is blessed
forever! Amen (so be it). [xr]. 26 For this reason
God gave them over and abandoned them to
vile affections and degrading passions. For
their women exchanged their natural function
for an unnatural and abnormal one, 27 And
the men also turned from natural relations with
women and were set ablaze (burning out,
consumed) with lust for one another—men
committing shameful acts with men and
suffering in their own [fn]odies and
personalities the inevitable consequences and
penalty of their wrong-doing and going astray,
which was [their] fitting retribution. 28 And so,
since they did not see fit to acknowledge God or
approve of Him or consider Him worth the
knowing, God gave them over to a base and
condemned mind to do things not proper or
decent but loathsome, 29 Until they were filled
(permeated and saturated) with every kind of
unrighteousness, iniquity, grasping and
covetous greed, and malice. [They were] full of
envy and jealousy, murder, strife, deceit and
treachery, ill will and cruel ways. [They were]
secret backbiters and gossipers, 30 Slanderers,
hateful to and hating God, full of insolence,
arrogance, [and] boasting; inventors of new
forms of evil, disobedient and undutiful to
parents. 31 [They were] without understanding,
conscienceless and faithless, heartless and
loveless [and] merciless. 32 Though they are
fully aware of God’s righteous decree that those
who do such things deserve to die, they not only
do them themselves but approve and applaud
others who practice them.
Ephesians 5:11
“Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and
darkness; instead, expose them.”
Psalm 119:53
53 Burning indignation has seized me because
of the wicked,
Who forsake Your law.
“A fool finds pleasure in evil conduct.” Proverbs
10:23
“Fools mock at sin.” Proverbs 14:9
“Folly delights a man who is destitute of
wisdom—but a man of understanding walks
uprightly.” Proverbs 15:21
“The mouth of the wicked gulps down evil!”
Proverbs 19:28
“Their souls delight in their abominations.”
Isaiah 66:3
“They love to indulge in evil pleasures.” 2 Peter
2:13
“The wicked freely strut about, when what is
vile is honored among men.” Psalm 12:8
“He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their
heart; that they should not see with their eyes,
nor understand with their heart, and be
converted, and I should heal them. These things
said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake
of him.” (Joh 12:40-41)
sounds like someone you know?
Obama is a tool of Satan.
You did not do that.
Pray for our nation.