how often in history have people used God as an excuse for wrong behavior? quite often actually. it seems like many times throughout history, people have used the Lord to commit acts that go against everything God is. they go out and hurt people, ridicule them, and say that it was ok to do it because that person had done something wrong, and they felt justified in exacting punishment for it. they even will go and use the Lord to alienate people from society because they dont like them. the thing is, that kind of behavior is not of God. God doesnt approve of it, and it saddens Him to see it. God teaches us to love one another. He teaches us to forgive each other, and respect one another, and be compassionate toward one another. He teaches us to reach out to people, not push them away. and even if they may be doing something wrong, He teaches us to love them and help them turn away from their sin, not punish them and ridicule them. for if you are going to hate someone for their sins, you will have to hate yourself as well, for you sin too. but God, through Christ, forgave those sins, and He teaches us, through that, to forgive others as well. so please, dont use God for hate. go out into the world and do as God would have you do. which is to love one another, respect each other, and lift up one another. in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, amen. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.-1 John 4:8(ESV) 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.-1 John 4:9-12(ESV) Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.-1 John 4:7(ESV) “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.-John 15:12(ESV) 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.-John 3:16-17(ESV) Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.-Ephesians 4:32(ESV) 21 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.-Matthew 18:21-22(ESV) If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.-1 Corinthians 13(ESV) 15 “If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back. 16 But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses. 17 If the person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church. Then if he or she won’t accept the church’s decision, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector.-Matthew 18:15-17(NLT)
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