Jesus says to love thy enemies. Satan is our enemy. Are we supposed to love Satan?

This question is actually not meant to be critical of anyone or anything. It is a genuine inquiry that I have often pondered.





To love Satan, is to love evil. And to love evil, is not to love God. But God tells us to love our enemies. Satan is our enemy. How can we love Satan, if loving Satan would be loving evil; and therefore not loving God?





Can someone attempt to break this circle or logic?

Jesus says to love thy enemies. Satan is our enemy. Are we supposed to love Satan?
One cannot love Satan, who is the embodiment of evil, because it is impossible to love something evil.


There is no room in the sphere of evil, for the concept of love.
Reply:I am not Chrsitian but we have a similar belief in Islam that by loving your enemies, maybe you'll touch their hearts and they'll want to convert to Islam, and this happened a lot in the Prophet's time, (pbuh). Satan, however, knows that God exists anyway but is still wanting to do evil. He cannot be converted because he already believes. So no, we don't love Satan.
Reply:you can love satan without loving what he does, to put myself in your point of view.
Reply:Bizarre question. I guess theologically, hate only exists because of Satan--he is the source of hate. By hating him, we would in fact be succumbing to the temptation to hate. Even our act of hating him is in fact honoring him.





The only reasonable alternative is to love him (remember the cliche'--"Love the sinner, hate the sin."). We love all sorts of people whose behavior we don't condone... Satan is not really all that different, I suppose.
Reply:As in love him or "Devin in Miss Jones"-style-love him?


*sigh*


Dunno man, it's all Greek to me, if you want the truth. Yet another of those mixed messages that's sent me seeking my Truth elsewhere. I don't even believe in Satan and I find that confusing!
Reply:In the context of the Bible passage that says so, Jesus was talking about humans.





Loving people is not the same as loving evil, but yes, I agree that basically loving Satan is like loving God.





My point is, we need to take Bible passages in context.





When various Bible passages say things, they generally do not include Satan, or God, or any angels. It's just implied knowledge that makes sense according to the context.





For example, it says Jesus explained "all things" to his apostles. That does not mean he explained about the tides, about the earth, or the Internet. It is taken in context to know he really explains about quite different things.





I hope this helps you.
Reply:i think He means that you could love Satan but not what he's created (which is evil).
Reply:It say's IF IT BE POSSIBLE,sometime's it is not possible sometime's it's time to knock head's,PEACE TO YOU If someone was trying to kill or hurt you ???you do what you have to do .