Baptist Apostasy

“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.” Psalms 139:21-22

These are Powerful words! Not only to hate, but to be counted as enemies!

Which brings up the question, have we been deceived into believing a lie? How often have we heard the phrase “hate the sin, but love the sinner”?

I’ve heard it more often recently than I’ve ever heard it in the past. The more evil, wickedness, and sin that is prevalent in society today, the more it seems to be said. But, is it true to the Bible, God’s Word?

Love the sinner or hate the sinner? What does the Bible say? Are we to hate the sin and love the sinner? Or hate the sin, and the sinner, until he repents and obeys the LORD? What does the Word of the Almighty say in his Word?

First of all, Jesus never said any words to that effect, but he did remind us at John 8:34, that “Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.” He also said at John 9:31, “Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.”

That’s right, God doesn’t hear sinners unless they are repentant and walk in his ways continuously being “perfected.” That Word “perfected” means to be repairing breaches and imperfections continuously when aware of them. That means we’ve got to examine ourselves and whether we are in the faith often. As it says at 2 Corinthians 13:5, “Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”

So, where did the phrase come from?

There are some who would refer to a letter that St. Augustine wrote to a commune of nuns (Letter 211, c. 424). That letter contains the phrase Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum, which translates roughly to “With love for mankind and hatred of sins.”

The phrase is more likely to have come from the 1929 autobiography by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as Mahatma Gandhi. Ghandi was the leader of the Indian National Congress, a democratic socialist movement. Ghandi wrote the story of his life and included the phrase in his autobiography, “hate the sin and not the sinner.” Interestingly, Ghandi had been directly influenced by the Russian Theosophist Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and her successor Annie Besant, who were both strong occultists and cabalists.

Those same doctrines helped to spread Hindu and Buddhist ideas throughout the west and were instrumental in the development of the New Age movement in the west and the infiltration of eastern ideas into the western church. Those ideas have also promoted the spread of the globalist antiChrist “Brotherhood of Man” doctrine that pervades the church today.

So, did the LORD forget to “hate the sin, but love the sinner” when he flooded the known world drowning the wicked and saving Noah and his family? Or how about when he wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah in a hail of fire and brimstone? Or when Lot’s wife was turned to a pillar of salt for turning back? Or how about the Egyptians when they were Not passed over and he drowned them in the sea? Or how about the Pharisees when he flipped over their tables and beat them with a cat-o-nine tails in the synagogue?

“For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.” Psalm 5:4-5

Today, church congregants and pastors welcome and invite evil and the  unrepentant who practice the evil into the sanctuary of God. Those who are: liars, adulterers, murderers, fornicators, idolaters, humanists, and man worshipers, and disobedient sinners into what is supposed to be the pure and holy sanctuary of God where he will meet with his church–the ekklesia–the ones called out from the world and the practice of wickedness.

The sanctuary represents the inner sanctuary of the old priestly tent in the wilderness where the High Priest entered the sanctuary to meet with the LORD. This is the place where we are to meet with the Almighty and Everlasting Heavenly King in a most holy, reverent and intimate relationship, and some want to invite wretched sinners in so they can sit there in their filthy physical, mental and spiritual rags! No wonder the perversion and filth of the world is everywhere spreading—it entered the door of the church meeting long ago in America! And the church has condoned it!

It appears the Southern Baptist Convention has plans of joining those separated from the Almighty in a most unholy alliance with Marxism. The scripture mandate calls on those Baptists to repent, or perish!

 

Michael Reed is Editor of The Standard, a pastor, businessman and conference speaker.