Description: R.P. Nettelhorst - Author and Theologian
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Proverbs 16:2 tells us that “All a person’s ways seem pure to them…”
People usually do what they think is right. They do not think of themselves as being the bad guys. Like the Nazis in series 1, episode 1 (first aired September 14, 2006) of “That Mitchell and Webb Look,” a comedy sketch show on the BBC, they are slow to recognize reality and shocked when they finally have to ask themselves, “are we the baddies?”
When I told an anti-Semite that he was filled with hate, he was outraged at the accusation; he couldn’t recognize that his statements against Jewish people were hate-filled. He couldn’t comprehend how he was living in contradiction with the command to “love your neighbor as yourself.”