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It is unethical to love and hate at the same time

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By Pr Isaiah White

Over 2000yrs ago, Jesus of Nazareth who was God Himself came to earth.
He not only challenged our ethical judgments but also refitted the entire ethical system that this world had formulated.
He addressed several things and one of these was the concept of relationships.
When Jesus Christ came, He surprised us by asking us to give to our enemies something we thought they do not deserve.
He said: “You have heard that it was said, you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matthew 5:43-45).

Love and hate
The first thing that Jesus Christ dealt with in restructuring our ethical worldview was reviewing the idea that love and hate can have the same source.
He pointed out that in the old days it was taught that the heart that loves can be the same heart that hates (Matthew 5:43).
He insisted that love and hate cannot have the same source and therefore we cannot be lovers of our family and be haters of our neighbors.
To claim that God is the source of the love one gives to some and the source of the hatred they give to others is to identify and establish Him as the source of both good and evil. God is love.
Loving one person and hating another is not only unethical but can also be looked at as an identity crisis.
It also shows that you can hate those you love and might love those you hate today.
This demonstrates that you are the source of evil and good, and it also proves that good and evil are not permanent identities.
These attain their identity from your attitude (how you look at or feel about them).
This is what Jesus wanted us to learn about the brokenness of our ethical worldview.

Loving one person and hating another is not only unethical but can also be looked at as an identity crisis. (Photo/Stylecraze)

An enemy
Again, before we love or hate anyone, there is a need to determine who an enemy is.
In our worldview, an enemy is one with whom we have differences (reconcilable or even irreconcilable).
If we understood it from this angle, then we have no justification to hate our enemies and here is the reason. What makes them our enemies are practical differences and not the essence of being (identity).
There is no ethical justification for hating someone for something they are doing. We all know people change.
Someone may be doing one thing today and doing a different one the next day.
The wrongs they do to us do not turn them into our enemies but rather people with different perspectives on life.
This does not mean what they are doing is not horrible. It means that they are just instruments of enmity. Jesus wanted us to understand that good is justified to hate evil and evil is justified to hate good since these are not activities but conditions.
God and Satan do not have differences (reconcilable or irreconcilable) but rather they are in nature opposed to each other.
Therefore, God and Satan are enemies but God does not emotionally hate the devil.
It is unethical and demonic if you harbor rancor against anyone for who they are.
It is for this reason that racism is not just a moral problem but a demonic possession.
What Jesus demonstrated to us was that you cannot have an enemy for a fellow human being.
It is unethical and ignorant to have a fellow human being for an enemy.
People are not our enemies, we just have differences that can always change. The real enemy is the devil not fellow man.

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