Comments on: Does God hate the sin but love the sinner? http://bnonn.thinkingmatters.org.nz/does-god-hate-the-sin-but-love-the-sinner/ developing the mind of Christ Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:12:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Dominic Bnonn Tennant http://bnonn.thinkingmatters.org.nz/does-god-hate-the-sin-but-love-the-sinner/#comment-1341 Dominic Bnonn Tennant Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:46:38 +0000 http://bnonn.thinkingmatters.org.nz/?p=1290#comment-1341 Philip, two questions: 1. How does your being angry at an inanimate object imply that God may be angry at an inanimate object? You seem to have skipped over my comment that such an attitude is irrational. So, rather than my construing that, well, since Philip is angry at a computer, God may be angry at a theoretical object called sin, I am construing that since it is irrational to be angry at a computer, Philip is irrational. 2. Where in the Bible do you find sin being described as an "added quantity"? If indeed sin is some kind of substance or thing, what are its properties, and how does it relate to us? At best, that is a highly aberrant view of what sin is. Philip, two questions:

1. How does your being angry at an inanimate object imply that God may be angry at an inanimate object? You seem to have skipped over my comment that such an attitude is irrational. So, rather than my construing that, well, since Philip is angry at a computer, God may be angry at a theoretical object called sin, I am construing that since it is irrational to be angry at a computer, Philip is irrational.

2. Where in the Bible do you find sin being described as an “added quantity”? If indeed sin is some kind of substance or thing, what are its properties, and how does it relate to us? At best, that is a highly aberrant view of what sin is.

]]> By: Philip http://bnonn.thinkingmatters.org.nz/does-god-hate-the-sin-but-love-the-sinner/#comment-1340 Philip Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:04:57 +0000 http://bnonn.thinkingmatters.org.nz/?p=1290#comment-1340 I dispute your point 1. I frequently can and do get very angry at things for doing what I had not commanded. My computer breaking and requiring my attention comes to mind. I hate my old (now defunct) dell computer, and the corporation that sold it. Based on that it could be possible that sin is an added quantity worthy of hatred that man appropriated to himself in the garden. Once permeated his being I suppose you could say God hates the person, but I'm not sure that leaves you with the conclusion that God hates the person with unmixed fury and no love. I think a more cogent defense of your beliefs is in order I dispute your point 1. I frequently can and do get very angry at things for doing what I had not commanded. My computer breaking and requiring my attention comes to mind. I hate my old (now defunct) dell computer, and the corporation that sold it.

Based on that it could be possible that sin is an added quantity worthy of hatred that man appropriated to himself in the garden. Once permeated his being I suppose you could say God hates the person, but I’m not sure that leaves you with the conclusion that God hates the person with unmixed fury and no love.

I think a more cogent defense of your beliefs is in order

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