John 15:18 “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
The earliest Christians would know the hatred of the world. “Tacitus spoke of the people ‘hated for their crimes, whom the mob call Christians.’ Suetonius had spoken of ‘a race of men who belong to a new and evil superstition.’” (Barclay)
“It is an odd fact that the world soon justified its hostility to them by imputing to them the initiative in hatred. The earliest extant reference to Christians in pagan literature charges them with ‘hatred of the human race’.” (Tacitus, Annals, 15.44.5) (Bruce)
“It is not without significance that the disciples are to be known by their love, the world by its hatred.” (Morris)
“The perfect tense of the verb ‘hate’ (memiseken) implies that the world’s hatred is a fixed attitude toward him — an attitude that carries over to his disciples as well.” (Tenney)
If people do not know God as He really is, they often attack and persecute those who represent God in some way. “Men may prefer to evolve an idea of their universal Father, but that idea of theirs will take their own color and the color of their Age. The only true idea of Him is to be got from The Son.” (Trench)
It would seem there is nothing new under the sun. Mankind is void of love when God is displaced and rejected. I took special note of what was recorded (written) by pagan historian Cornelius Tacitus and how Christians were hated for their crimes of hatred against mankind with their superstitions. Calling good bad and bad good. Hatred of Christians was good. Works of peace and love of Christians was called bad. Mankind void of God will hate the things of God and the people who honor, glorify, obey, follow, trust, and worship Him. If you speak out against abortion you are labeled a woman hater. If you speak out against LGBTQ you are a labeled a bigot. If you speak out that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven you are labeled ignorant. If you speak out about injustice you are labeled intolerant.
Mankind will call our love and devotion to Jesus Christ a hatred of mankind.
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me.
The earliest Christians would know the hatred of the world. “Tacitus spoke of the people ‘hated for their crimes, whom the mob call Christians.’ Suetonius had spoken of ‘a race of men who belong to a new and evil superstition.’” (Barclay)
“It is an odd fact that the world soon justified its hostility to them by imputing to them the initiative in hatred. The earliest extant reference to Christians in pagan literature charges them with ‘hatred of the human race’.” (Tacitus, Annals, 15.44.5) (Bruce)
“It is not without significance that the disciples are to be known by their love, the world by its hatred.” (Morris)
“The perfect tense of the verb ‘hate’ (memiseken) implies that the world’s hatred is a fixed attitude toward him — an attitude that carries over to his disciples as well.” (Tenney)
If people do not know God as He really is, they often attack and persecute those who represent God in some way. “Men may prefer to evolve an idea of their universal Father, but that idea of theirs will take their own color and the color of their Age. The only true idea of Him is to be got from The Son.” (Trench)
It would seem there is nothing new under the sun. Mankind is void of love when God is displaced and rejected. I took special note of what was recorded (written) by pagan historian Cornelius Tacitus and how Christians were hated for their crimes of hatred against mankind with their superstitions. Calling good bad and bad good. Hatred of Christians was good. Works of peace and love of Christians was called bad. Mankind void of God will hate the things of God and the people who honor, glorify, obey, follow, trust, and worship Him. If you speak out against abortion you are labeled a woman hater. If you speak out against LGBTQ you are a labeled a bigot. If you speak out that Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven you are labeled ignorant. If you speak out about injustice you are labeled intolerant.
Mankind will call our love and devotion to Jesus Christ a hatred of mankind.