Can I ask about “love the sinner, not the sin”? We don’t have this in Judaism. What is your interpretation of it?

The person is the one who commits the sin. There is no sin in this world until a person does something wrong. Since sin cannot exist independent of the sinner, I can’t love or hate it. And if a person does something terrible to me or my family, say robs me, I am not going to love them nor love the robbing.

In Judaism, we don’t have to forgive until someone ASKS to be forgiven. And they must do that so they can acknowledge that they have harmed us. If they ask, they must be forgiven. Technically, they can ask up to 3 times and if we refuse to forgive, we must forgive the third time. Basically if a person has humbled themselves to beg forgiveness, you have to humble yourself to accept.

If they’re trying to say, love someone despite their flaws, then I can see that, yes. Although I love many people despite their flaws, but I don’t consider most flaws “sins.”

Anyway, it’s not for me to judge someone else’s decisions in life. It does make me a bit cranky that these very zealous Christians really adore the Hebrew Bible when it says stuff they can roll up into a stick and beat someone over the head with. Otherwise, they don’t care much about it.