Saw this on 4chan -sorry if someone already posted - super relevant for this board
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This sounds emotionally masochistic and needlessly self-hating. It doesn't seem righteous to accept responsibility for other people's sins against God.
Correct. That's why I repent for my sins. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. You should hate yourself. The only good in me comes from Jesus and Jesus alone. To him be all the glory. Him alone. Die to self. Hate what you were
Can you point me to the verse in the Bible where it says to hate yourself? Who taught you this?
My understanding is we are all sons and daughters of God, our bodies are His temple. God is in all of us, so hating yourself is hating God.
The Bible taught me this. Everything I think I learn I check to see if it matches up w the word of God. If it does its worth knowing. If it doesn't its only worth remembering.
Pride is the greatest sin. We pride ourselves on our capacity to comprehend parts of it all. We all think, we all think we know, and we know nothing.
The body is a place for the holy spirit to dwell in. Our bodies are on loan. It's why I've never had a tattoo. But I've certainly defiled my body in other ways. It doesn't make either right. We will stand for it and be made accountable for it.
Your words, actions, thoughts, prayers, proclamations are important but the most important in my life is worship. Who you worship matters. He is a jealous God. He's jealous when you worship falsely.
Your sin matters threefold. It proves you're unworthy. It proves that God is good. And it proves that you need a savior.
He wants the glory for himself. Be the herald. He is the master I am his servant. But there is great power in slavery. Your slave master protects you. You speak w his authority and not your own. You speak on his behalf and you repeat the message he tells his people over n over throughout his story.... repent.
Ephesians 4:22-24
2 Corinthians 5:17
Romans 13:14
Luke 14:28-33
Luke 9:24-25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.
John 3:30 He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less
God is holy and good. We are not. Your greatest achievements are but filthyvrags.
None of that teaches to hate oneself. Are you called to hate others? Are you not simply another of Gods creation? How can you be called to love others but hate yourself? God does not hate you, but you think you should hate yourself? Becoming less is no different than Jesus becoming less to become man, but Jesus did not hate or despise himself becoming man. Hate your sin, but do not hate yourself. You are a child of God.