How to Love the Sinner & Hate the Sin
It’s a catchy phrase. Everyone uses it whenever there is a discussion about Christians interacting with people that live counter to Scripture (or their interpretation of Scripture).
“Love the sinner, hate the sin.”
But how do we do that? It’s easier said than done. It can be difficult to see the distinction between sinner and sin.
Thankfully, C.S. Lewis has some wise words to help get us see the line between.
“I remember Christian teachers telling me long ago that I must hate a bad man’s actions but not hate the bad man: or, as they would say, hate the sin but not the sinner. ”¦I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man?
But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life –namely myself.
However much I might dislike my own cowardice or conceit or greed, I went on loving myself. There had never been the slightest difficulty about it. In fact the very reason why I hated the t…
