Love or Hate

Is it love or is it hate?

• Does all criticism seem like hate to the recipient?
• Is all criticism give in hate?
• Can criticism be given in love and received as hate?
• Can criticism be received constructively?
• Is punishment a type of criticism?
• Can punishment encourage people to stop harmful actions?
• What are harmful actions?
• Are they harmful to the person doing them?
• Are they harmful to society?
• Can punishment be given in love?
• Can punishment be given in anger?

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off.  It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. Mark 9:43

• So what is a sin and why is it so bad?
• Does a sin distance you from God?
• Does a sin distance you from other people?
• Can not doing something be a sin?
• Is sin relative or absolute?
  So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.  James 4:17
• Can sinful actions be listed as in Galatians 5:19-21?
  Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• If someone sins are they a bad person?
  For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.  James 2:10
  For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,  Romans 3:23

How do you separate training to discourage sin from hate?

Is encouraging people to not become addicted to "the works of the flesh", love or hate?

Is punishment for sinful actions, love or hate?