Can You Love People That Hate You?

I can love people who hate me since loving them is so very different then "liking" them. .Love is something we should have for all people ..For that is what God wants..He didn't say, however, that we must like everyone.. Like means they are your friend and you share much in common:)+

personally, I can. but it will be very difficult to swallow your pride for someone who treats you unfairly. oh well, as Jesus said it "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you". being a true Christian means following Jesus' words so I guess i will love and help those who hate me

Yeah i can as i have done that before,Maybe its cos i have a very forgiving nature and tend to give evryone a chance to improvise.I have done it before and many of those i hate have changed and are now good frenz of mine

No, I can't. First of all I'm not Christian, and so I don't feel obliged to forgive people who harm me. The most important thing to me is to understand the reason why this person hates me, if his/her reasons are right I'd help him/her if he/she was in trouble, but if he/she has been very bad with me in bad faith to me he/she doesn't exist, I'll give hime/her only indifference and if he/she is in trouble I won't help him/her.Everybody must take the responsability of what he/she does.

Yes ,I can help people I hate, but to love, I must thingking about it again. best regards

It's not easy to love someone. In the first place, it should be unconditional so even if she hates me, I will still continue to love her. Since I always love her, I will always help her and much more if she is in trouble. I she will welcome my help then well and good. The sad part is when she will not welcome it. Are you a Roman Catholic? We I am and I believe also in His sacrifice to us to set us free from our sins.

I would help them when they are in trouble and not because I love them when they hate me, but because I don't like to see anyone suffers.

I can not , my hubby can though but I can not. I wont hate them back but I wont even be friends with them. I would prefer not to have any relationship with them. I have a person in my family being openly critical of me to the point of spreading rumors but thouhg my hubby calls them up and speaks to them but I can not and just would [prefer not to hve any contact with them at all.

I have a great capacity to tolerate people. However, I have noticed that I have changed lately. They say, it comes with age. But that is beside the point here. What you have raised is a far cry from being grumpy and ill tempered. No, I cannot honestly say that I can still love them. I can say however, that I maybe able to tolerate them for some lengths. Whenever I see people get into trouble, I try to see if I can be of any help. This is regardless of whether I know him or not, whether he is a friend or an enemy. A person in need of help is already another story for me.

I hope so. I want to be able to. One of the most loving things is to pray for those who hate you. The devil hates that we have compassion and mercy on those that do or wish us evil, and God loves it when we do.

To me, it's depend on what type of trouble and who's the person. If the person that i like, i'll help no matter what. To others, if it's just short term and will not affect their life i will not care. Otherwise i may give a hand.

Ah, the eternal issue between loving and hating! It is really hard to love someone who doesn't reciprocate the feeling, specially if that someone is very close to us. Like, it would be very hard for a son to love his father if he feels that he , the father, is out of touch and doesn't even care if he, the son, is at home or not, or just gallivanting around the neighborhood. It would be impossible for a daughter to love a mother who is keeping her from exploring her world outside the home. But all these are just superficial expressions of what love and hate really are. "Love is patient, kind, without envy." This is what the Bible says. And if this is true, then no one should be beyond the point of being unloved by us, no matter what the person does, no matter what he is. Hate has no place in a person who loves. Hate negates the humanity of the person being hated, as hate is refusing to acknowledge the propensity of the human person to commit mistakes. We hate a person because we do not like what he is doing, right? But he is entitled to do what he is doing, as long as he doesn't hurt anybody, specially us. Yet, even as we are not hurt, we would still say we hate that person whose deeds we do not like. Here is where patience, kindness and acceptance come in. We must be patient so that we can wait for the person we hate to change his ways. We have to be kind, so as to give that person an example to follow and share with others. And we must be ready to accept the person as he is, even as we do not like what he does.

Honestly no. I can't love those people who hate me simply because they won't ever give back the love that I'll share with them since they have this hatred for me. It wouldn't be easy to love them. And no, I'd definitely not help them when they get into trouble--of whatever form. Cause I get so bitter with those people who seem to hate me =)

Well I know one person who hates me, and I'm sorry to say that I don't like her or love her. I don't think I could love someone that hated me, let alone help them. If they are in trouble it would depend on the situation, but if they hated me, I would not waste my time with that person.

I think I can love people that hate me because I am the type of person who cannot hate, but love others. And if someone dislikes me I think I can help them out in trouble because I can't help but to help people out even if it is an enemy or something.

Very difficult task, but I try my best to do so, coz that what will help me become a better person in life... moreover, I don't want to be an average human being, who loves only those who love them... thanks... lovely post... keep posting such good stuff...

It is very hard to love someone that hates you but Jesus said love your enemies. I try to love everyone. When someone does something bad to me I try to think about what Jesus would do. What would His response be. I still find it hard to do immediately after I have been wronged but I try to have a forgiving heart and eventually forgiveness is given. To live with hate is an awful thing and it only eats you up on the inside. Yes I would help someone I hate if they were in trouble.

I don't know that I've ever had anyone hate me. At least not act like they hate me. I have gotten along with some pretty hateful people! Yes, I think I would help them if they are in trouble, if they would let me help them. I usually try to give people the benefit of the doubt. I worked with one girl once that I didn't like much at first and the feeling was mutual. We wound up being good friends!

I sure can. I did it before, and I will do it again. I don't hate people. I think it is a very foolish thing to waste the precious moments in our lives hating. Love is a much more positive thing to do with our time. I will help most people who will need my help, unless I cannot help them. Anyway, I will do my best to help others. I think that every good deed betters our whole world.

It would be more challenging if you were to asked 'Can you love the person you hate?' or 'Can you help the person whom you hate'. To love or help the person who hates you, I feel it is possible. It is the person who is hating you, and that is his problem, not yours. You have nothing against him, and so can love and help positively and graciously. But to love/help the person whom you hate, it requires great compassion and true love. How many of us are really compassionate and loving such that we can love without any reservations.