Depends on the hate.
Is Hating Always Bad?
by Farkel 29 Replies latest jw friends
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quietlyleaving
hating what?
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MidwichCuckoo
Not always. I think a lot of us use 'hate' as a defence mechanism.
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BluesBrother
From the Wiki dictionary
" To dislike intensely; to feel strong hostility towards. "
Synonym's : abhor,loath,despise detest
My first thought is the scripture that the dubs use "Lovers of Jehovah, hate what is bad"
So, no. Hating is not always bad...I hate injustice, exploitation of others, lies etc etc
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jaguarbass
is hating always bad?
That depends on what your standards are.
Who programed you?
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WTWizard
I hate (I mean, HATE) God--for all the s*** He has done to me, and for making excuses for it. He seems to think I don't need any good experiences in order to expect good experiences--and is stubbornly sticking to that despite that it is blatantly not working. So long as this persists and I do not get perfect results with the opposite sex (to compensate me for the p*** poor ones God has forced me to get all the time), I will never cease discrediting anything good that God has (or claims to have) ever done.
I also hate the Jehovah's Witless religion.
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angel eyes
I dont hate people but i often hate what they did, but it must be awful to carry that feeling around with you throughout your life. So no, i never hate people but do hate what they do,the act, sin,if its bad of course. :)
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Robdar
Hate has its own rewards
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sacolton
All Jehovah's Witnesses were taught to hate. It's deep rooted in our teachings.
Jehovah's Witnesses are told to hate ex-Jehovah's Witnesses because they are against God and not fit to live. They are told: "`We must hate with the truest sense, which is to regard with extreme and active aversion, to consider as loathsome, odious, filthy, to detest. Surely any haters of God are not fit to live on his beautiful earth. The earth will be rid of the wicked and we shall not need to lift a finger to cause physical harm to come to them, for God will attend to that, but we must have a proper perspective of these enemies.' (WT, 1/10/52 p. 599).
When a person persists in a way of badness after knowing what is right, when the bad becomes so ingrained that it is an inseparable part of his make-up, then in order to hate what is bad a Christian must hate the person with whom the badness is inseparably linked (WT 7/15/61 p. 420)
*** g33 10/11 p. 26 Churchianity & Christianity ***
It is a good thing to have these things published in the Catholic press and elsewhere so that when Jehovah God destroys the whole miserable nest of vipers every honest and decent person may rejoice that they no longer cumber the earth which they have disgraced. *** w52 11/15 p. 703 Questions from Readers *** We are not living today among theocratic nations where such members of our fleshly family relationship could be exterminated for apostasy from God and his theocratic organization... Being limited by the laws of the worldly nation in which we live and also by the laws of God through Jesus Christ, we can take action against apostates only to a certain extent, that is, consistent with both sets of laws. The law of the land and God’s law through Christ forbid us to kill apostates, even though they be members of our own flesh-and-blood family relationship. *** w54 7/15 p. 447 Questions From Readers *** The judgments of Jehovah are righteous, and the execution thereof is done in righteousness. Jehovah’s servants, who have his spirit and who love righteousness and hate wickedness, do not mourn the destruction of the wrongdoers at the hand of Jehovah’s appointed executioner. .... There is no general repentance and Armageddon will annihilate the evildoers.Armageddon survivors will not mourn the destruction of those Jehovah judges worthy of it. *** w55 7/15 p. 436 War From Heaven Brings Peace on Earth ***Men can spray a field with chemicals that kill weeds but spare crops; too bad they cannot spray cities with bombs that blow the bad to bits but leave the innocent intact ... Men have a saying about 'dying with your boots on.' At Armageddon Jehovah God will grant their wish and let them 'die with their boots on' .... And what about Jehovah God? Does he prepare for Armageddon? Well, would you prepare to kill a fly? Would you prepare to squash a bug? Would you do calisthenics every morning for weeks to get in condition to swat a fly? Would you train with barbells for months to make your muscles bulge and give you strength to step on a bug? Would that be necessary? Could you not cope with the fly or the bug without special training?
*** sr 1955 pp. 340-342 The Universal War of Armageddon Breaks Out *** Why should not blood run deep and far with over two billion dead? Was there ever a war of the length of Armageddon's duration that left even a billion dead? .... With the members of this generation that will not pass away before Armageddon breaks out numbering now two billion five hundred million and with only the remnant and a larger group of "other sheep" inside the Greater Noah's "ark" surviving, the death toll of the "war of the great day of God the Almighty" will be appallingly all-surpassing, too many for the Armageddon survivors to bury. Come on, birds and beasts! Have your fill then from the human corpses in retribution for the wanton slaughter of animal and birdlife of which the human race has been guilty! *** w58 10/15 pp. 614-615 What Will Armageddon Mean to You *** As for humans upon earth, on the side of Jehovah will be all those fully dedicated to him and who are faithfully following Jesus Christ; compared with earth’s billions these are indeed few.... On Satan’s side will be all the rest of mankind, more than 99.9 percent, even as we read: "The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." That includes all the governments of the world together with their supporters, the commercial, religious and social institutions.... Armageddon will be the worst thing ever to hit this earth in the history of man. It will be marked by shocking surprise, consternation, fright, collapse of government, tremendous upheavals of earth, landslides, cloudbursts, overflowing flash-floods, rain of corrosive liquid fire and terror in the air, on land and in the sea. *** w61 7/15 p. 420 A Time and Place for Everything ***When a person persists in a way of badness after knowing what is right, when the bad becomes so ingrained that it is an inseparable part of his make-up, then in order to hate what is bad a Christian must hate the person with whom the badness is inseparably linked.
*** w61 12/1 pp. 724-725 United Against Nations in the Valley of Decision ***
"Into the valley of decision, as into a vast wine-press trough, the King leaps with his army of holy angels. SQUASH! The treading of the nations, including Christendom, begins... Never before in all human history will so many human creatures have been slaughtered. Blood, as representing human lives poured out, will run deep and over a vast distance... With breathless awe they [the survivors] will have looked down from their safe heights into the valley of decision and witnessed how Jehovah gains his magnificent victory by Christ over all the combined nations of Satan’s visible organization. At His victory in vindication of his universal sovereignty we witnesses will sing his praises exultantly and will acknowledge him as our God for all time and eternity. We are near the time of his battle and transcendant victory. *** w65 4/1 p. 212 Fulfulling the New Commandment of Love *** Yes, today, with Armageddon staring us in the face, we must keep in mind the sobering thought that millions, even billions, of lives may shortly come to a swift and decisive end, putting their onetime owners beyond the reach of any expression of love on our part. *** w05 12/1 p. 6 Armageddon -- A Happy Beginning *** "Many wonder, however, why a God who is the very embodiment of love would inflict death and destruction on much of humankind. The situation might be compared to that of a pest-infested house. Would you not agree that a conscientious homeowner should safeguard the health and well-being of his family by exterminating the pests? ... The battle of Armageddon is actually one of the best things that could happen to us! -
angel eyes
hate what is bad...yes thats such a good command. but dont hate the person....just the act, what they have done.