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Originally Posted by Trapped
The commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. If we are to hate ourselves, but love our neighbor as ourself, this translates into hating your neighbor. Whoops. I guess we do need to love ourselves so that loving our neighbor as ourself translates into actual love.
If God loves me. Should I hate what God loves? I am part of the church, His Body, which He loves. Should I not love what God loves, both in part and in sum?
Romans 12:3 says not to esteem yourself more highly than you OUGHT. This means there is an "ought" to which you should esteem yourself.
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Yep. Yep. Yep.
As I said, Drake's teaching is designed to keep you down so that others (like him) can control you.
Proper humility? Yes! Self-loathing? A doctrine of demons!