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Hate the sin, not the sinner. So yes.

Evil/sin is a choice. I never understood how you can separate it from the person, when it comes out of their own free will.

>>558865

First of all, whether or not you hate them has no impact on whether or not they are made in the image of God. Bearing the image of God is not a subjective quality based on what you think about them. And second of all, that's a saying from Gandhi, not the Bible.

>>558872

one argument is that evil is a result of ignorance, people think what they are doing is 'good' in some sense or beneficial or morally neutral, because they don't understand the nature of the action and how it fits into the grand scheme of things.

Or it might happen out of fear, so a person might tell a lie because they fear facing physical punishment, financial loss, shame, exile, etc.

>>558881

Yet it is the essence of the question. We are all made in the image of God, yet some of the flock still stray. So yes, it applies to all.

>>558881

It’s a paraphrase of a St Augustine quote.