Tell me what you know friend. Im not here to teach on this topic I was just asking a question.
That's ok either way.
I just asked because a series of major traumatic experiences the past two years would have killed me if not for God's grace. I just want to help others, which helps me too because it gets the focus off of myself. I have to be wise though because it can be triggering too and have to relive the same, sometimes worse traumas emotionally then even the time of the actual experience.
I can't go into it now, because I need to get back to sleep and work hard today. There is a difference between those who are merely personal enemies and the enemies of God.
Another distinction is between someone who has wronged us and someone who is a reprobate. A reprobate is a certain category of people the Bible describes.
Romans chapter one devotes the most details about them in one passage. They have many similar character traits.
I did a lot of research on this topic motivated by the following:
1. Demonic attacks upon me through people and situations.
2. Interaction with both personal enemies who simply wronged and those who were clearly reprobates and psychopaths.
My most recent job was a Personal Protection Specialist.
Someone's life was in jeopardy.
They disregarded my repeated warnings and reasons for my discernment. I had to just pray fervently for God to protect them when they were on their own AND reveal the person's intentions.
She was about to be eliminated as the person I warned them of explained to them alone in a car on the way to his place. He admitted 3 times to her of the psychopathy at work. God sent her brother to his house at that exact time necessary to take her home. This was a supernatural deliverance from certain death.
This is just one example why this topic is so very important.
People act foolishly .
Christians act foolishly on a regular basis.
I admit to being foolish as well.
I've seen long time friends and families broken and at enmity, separated and divorced over the lack of working on personal character and basic conflict skills.
Next thing I've seen are some of those same foolish people who refused reconciling and trusting people who love them, jump into the arms of psycho/ reprobates. They are blinded and cause their children harm by association with such people.
Then I've been told that you got to love and be kind when they torture and commit the most heinous crimes against your own family.
This type of teaching is a misapplication of verses without looking at the overall teaching on this subject of the Bible.
These people choose to remain foolish because they make absolutely no distinction between the daily/ weekly offenses and the things which God and we should truly hate. I've lost more friends from this issue than many issues.
The devil's like that too.
They are the authors of confusion and sow discord that is unnecessary.