So many times. Professional Faith Merchants tout this phrase and attribute it to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ without so much as saying how Christ defined "sin," implying, and they do so frequently, "Sin is what I say it is!"

WRONG! That is Satan speaking! Beware!

While I can't personally disagree with the phrase which I'm sure God doesn't either, so often it is used as a precursor to denouncing some behavior as an "abominable  unforgivable sin." There is only one unforgivable sin and it ios not murder! This prompted a great deal of research into finding out who was the originator of this phrase.

Keep in mind, Christ defined sin only as "Not believing in Jesus Christ,"

John 16:9

 9 Of sin, because they believe not on me;

But Christ said even that is forgivable. If you profess belief in Christ but keep not His commandments, the hard, difficult, onerous and nearly impossible BIG 2, are you a true Christian?

Christ said, "If you love me, keep my words," implying if you don't keep his words, then you don't love Jesus Christ!

Christ came not to judge nor condemn the world but to teach it the way of the Father.

Who then said, "love the sinner but hate the sin?"

For those Professional Faith Merchants who use this as a sacred mantra and secretly wish they were a Prints or a Fathers in the Catholic Church, you'll be reassured to learn that research shows that "Hate the sin, love the sinner" probably came from the man designated as St. Augustine, not Christ.

• The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, says that St. Augustine wrote in letter 211 found in J.-P. Migne (ed.) Patrologiae Latinae (1845), vol. 33 "Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum" which means "With love for mankind and hatred of sins."  This according to the Dictionary, this is "often quoted 'Love the sinner but hate the sin' ".

While Satan has, can and will reveal the truth to his minions, more often than not, there will be some lies intermingled. The fact that Professional Faith Merchants, who Christ said, "draw near me with their lips, but their hearts are from me," as they "teach for doctrine of God, commandments of men," use this phrase to judge their fellowman, it is important that man knows the truth from whence this phrase came and why.

Concerning sin, Christ gave man ONLY TWO COMMANDMENTS, violation of which IS A SIN!

Matthew 22:36-40

  36 Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?

   37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

 38 This is the first and great commandment.

 39 And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour (sic) as thyself.

 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Read Verse 40 again.

“ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAWS AND THE PROPHETS,” which is to say that ALL THE LAWS and ALL THE PROPHETS since the beginning of time were given to man for the expressed purpose of teaching and getting man to adhere to these two commandments only! All other verbiage is simply commentary, some of which are the nothing more than commandments of men he teaches for doctrines of God for some of Satan’s gold!

IF YOU LOVE GOD, JESUS CHRIST, YOU'LL KEEP HIS WORDS, HIS COMMANDMENTS, BOTH OF THEM!

NOTHING MORE NEEDS TO BE SAID!
 
 

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