re hate the sin scott prism gatech edu scott holt writes hate the sin but love the sinner i ve heard that quite a bit recently often in the context of discussions about christianity and homosexuality but the context really isn t that important my question is whether that statement is consistent with christianity i would think not i m very grateful for scott s reflections on this oft quoted phrase could someone please remind me of the scriptural source for it rom doesn t count kids the manner in which this little piece of conventional wisdom is applied has in my experience been uniformly hateful and destructive billh
