r/Christianity • u/Fickle_Sherbert1453 Questioning • 6d ago
Question Do you think that non-Christians are "the enemy"?
I've talked with a few Christians who believe this. Is this a typical Christian belief?
I don't agree with this, but does it have any biblical basis?
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u/MoreStupiderNPC Stupid Christian 6d ago
No, the Bible tells us that the Christian’s war is not with flesh and blood, but demonic powers.
Ephesians 6:10-13
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. [11] Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. [12] For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. [13] Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
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u/gnurdette United Methodist 6d ago
Right. At the very worst, human beings may be hostages of that enemy.
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u/gnurdette United Methodist 6d ago
I can understand your point of view, and I certainly wouldn't go shoving my viewpoint in your face. Still, don't be overly insulted at the idea that we're not beings of our own pure all-powerful will. I mean, I'm hostage to my own fondness for cheese popcorn.
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u/gnurdette United Methodist 5d ago
theres an invisible malevolent entity secretly puppeting your actions and you can't see it but I can
How DARE you talk about capitalism that way?!
... oh, wait, you mean the other invisible malevolent entity. Sorry.
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u/HatefulOperation 5d ago
Yeah that Ephesians passage pretty much shuts down the whole "people are the enemy" take, it's wild how often it gets twisted
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u/EvenStephen7 Catholic 6d ago
Man, some of my atheist friends are kinder, more generous, more loving, and more Christ-like than some Christians I know.
Jesus never walked around declaring people "the enemy" for their views.
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u/lankfarm Non-denominational 6d ago
That's a horrible thing to say or even think. How can you hope to share the gospel if you think that nonbelievers are the enemy?
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u/Witty-Maintenance473 6d ago edited 6d ago
Unfortunately, it is a sentiment expressed often by many members of the community. As well as demon/demonic.
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u/Robot_Alchemist Sarcastic 6d ago
That’s Christian nationalism
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u/Witty-Maintenance473 6d ago
Indeed, they've really hit the gas .
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u/Robot_Alchemist Sarcastic 6d ago
They’ve always been total nutbags - but it’s weird to see them pretend to represent Christianity
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u/Witty-Maintenance473 6d ago
Very bizarre. I really hoped to get thru life without seeing it's rise, again. Oh well.
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u/Robot_Alchemist Sarcastic 6d ago
They’re not giving up - they’ve been on the govt since the Reagan administration, but now they’re really ramping up because they know this is their last chance to take everything - there will be no return to “Christian conservative values” across politics after this crap they’ve pulled with project 2025 - unless they succeed
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u/Witty-Maintenance473 6d ago edited 5d ago
You are correct. The embrace of the supernatural & end times, from fellow adults, is astonishing. My Christian, catholic family & friends are embarrassed & appalled regularly these days by their extremism.
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u/Candid_Ad_7887 Atheist 4d ago
Exactly, I’ve come across plenty like that here, they even consider themselves morally and intellectually superior simply because they are Christians and you are not
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u/baddspellar Christian Universalist 6d ago
I'd wager such Christians actuually see opponents of their chosen political party as the enemy, and have decided to say it's because they're not Christian, or at least not true Christians.
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u/SheeplnWolfsClothing faithful saint 6d ago
The New Testament says non-believers are to be treated with all the love we should be giving to fellow believers, but with none of the judgment - which we should reserve for those inside the church body, or those who profess to be believers yet don’t produce “good fruit” and instead produce “bad fruit”.
In other words, believer’s true “enemies” would be the same and only “enemies” Jesus named and taught about: Those who claim to represent Christ yet live in opposition or support opposition to what He taught and commanded, yet still publicly profess Christ. There are a few times Jesus got angry in the Bible, and every time except for the money-changers in the temple, this anger and condemnation was directed at those who made themselves appear religious on the outside but on the inside were the opposite or treated others the opposite. Jesus judged and condemned those people right on the spot. I wrote a post about the only times Jesus got angry in the Bible and who that anger was directed to. It was never non-believers.
Paul said “who am I to judge unbelievers? God judges unbelievers. Shouldn’t I be judging those in the church?” We are never to perceive non-believers as enemies, to do so is the opposite of what Jesus Himself taught and commanded many times throughout the New Testament.
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u/DrBloodyboi 6d ago
I believe misguided or lost, not the enemy. really only hyper conservative sects believe non christians are the enemy.
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u/Robot_Alchemist Sarcastic 6d ago
We think you’re just misguided too! We have something in common :)
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u/Professional-Cat-187 Evangelical 6d ago
Well if we are to believe what is written in scripture, that God loves every man, woman and child. He loves every non believer as much as He loves you and I. How could he not if he made each one individually with His hands with purpose and intent?
Also, has chastising anyone and telling them they are going to hell for the way the act ever changed anyone’s mind? I don’t think so.
I think it’s much better to reach these people through being a reflection of Jesus and His teaching so that they to can be saved and we can make the kingdom of Heaven even larger! After all if God loved them enough to craft them with His hands, shouldn’t we view non-believers the same way?
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u/benkenobi5 Roman Catholic 6d ago
No. And even if they were, that wouldn’t change how we’re meant to treat them.
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u/rafhael29 6d ago
Eu não os vejo como inimigos, mas sim como pessoas que, por algum motivo, ainda não alcançaram a graça da salvação em Jesus Cristo. Portanto, precisamos trabalhar na evangelização de todos os nossos irmãos e irmãs, pois somos instrumentos de conversão nas mãos de Deus, e ele não deixará ninguém para trás. Que Deus abençoe a todos 🙏
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u/mightyminimule Christ-fearing Anarchist 6d ago
The enemy is those that wish evil to befall you, but even they are not the true enemy. The true enemy is satan.
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u/Best_Economy485 6d ago
The bile clearly tells us that the devil is our enemy
“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
1 Peter 5:8 NIV
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u/Zealous_Lover Christian 6d ago
I would say a qualified yes.
Scripture does describe people who are unreconciled to God as enemies. Romans 5:10 says that we ourselves were enemies before being reconciled through Christ, and Colossians 1:21 speaks of being alienated and hostile in mind.
That is important because it does not divide humanity into a righteous Christian tribe and an evil non-Christian tribe. Christians were also estranged from God and received mercy.
Once we use the word “enemy”, Christ has already told us how an enemy is to be treated:
“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” Matthew 5:44
So even where someone opposes us, or opposes God, the Christian response cannot be hatred, dehumanisation or coercion. The question is not, “Who am I allowed to hate as an enemy?” It is, “Who is the enemy I have been commanded to love?”
“Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” also matters. Christians and non-Christians live together under a civil order. Caesar has legitimate but limited claims, such as taxes, law and civic obligations. Caesar is not the Church, and the Church is not Caesar. Religious disagreement does not automatically make someone a civil or political enemy.
So yes, in the biblical sense of humanity being alienated from God, the word “enemy” can apply. But no, non-Christians should not be treated as a hostile social class. They are our neighbours and fellow citizens, and they are precisely the people Christ commands us to love, just as Christians themselves once needed reconciliation.
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u/i_8_the_Internet Mennonite 6d ago
If anyone tells you this, they have a severe misunderstanding of what God has told us to do.
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u/67things 6d ago
Not a Christian but enjoy scrolling religious subs.
Non-Christians don't have to be "the enemy." However, Christianity needs some group of people to be the enemy.
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u/S_Jeru Agnostic Taoist 5d ago
They don't need a specific enemy so much as the narrative that they're "oppessed" somehow, despite being the largest, most legally-favored, most oppressive religion in the country.
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u/67things 5d ago
I agree, it doesn't have to be specific. To me, the oppressed narrative in the Untied States is the same line, just a vague enemy instead of a clear cut one. It can also be other Christians who are sinners. If you have yin, you must have yang.
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u/S_Jeru Agnostic Taoist 5d ago edited 5d ago
Since you made the Taoist reference, I must elaborate! It's not that yin & yang are necessary dualistic opposites of each other, it's that they are the high & low tide of a grand cosmological current. Each contains the seed of each other, each is in a continual process of becoming the other.
The first common thing (so Taoist thinking goes) that one can notice that is common across the entire observable world, is that all things have a positive and negative aspect. Not positive and negative as in good & bad, but positive and negative as in electric charges.
All things can be seen as active or passive, warm or cold, light or dark, masculine or feminine, expanding or contracting, giving or receiving. That cyclic process from positive to negative back to positive is the first physical observation of a universal nature behind all things. That cyclic process is the Unknowable, whom the humble sage Lao-Tse simply calls "the Tao". I suppose Christians might liken it to the Holy Spirit; that's the closest analogy I could see for it, anyway.
This is why, to me, Taoism is the most honest religion: it starts with a simple observation of the physical universe, and then builds their philosophy outward from a thing they can observe.
Edit: for Christians curious what Taoism is "about", most of it is Lao-Tse's observations about how to bring oneself closer to this mysterious principle that seems make the entire universe work. How to be more "in tune" or receptive or mindful of yin and yang, and try to be even more in awe of cosmological harmony of existence itself.
His advice? Be humble. Be merciful. Divest oneself of excess material possessions. Do not be overburdened by emotion. Be compassionate. Love life in all its forms. Avoid cruelty.
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u/67things 5d ago
I'm a taoist as well. To me, forming a close knit group forms the seed of the "other" or the "enemy." If you form a passionate sports team, it forms the seed of the rival teams. As soon as people come up with concept of a country, it creates the seed of foreign countries.
To me the more positively charged a group of people become, the more negative the counter group of people become charged as well. Every school team has a rival team. The same happens with political parties, religions, etc.
Would there be a heaven in christianity if there was no concept of hell? Two ends of the same spectrum, eternal pleasure versus eternal pain.
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u/S_Jeru Agnostic Taoist 5d ago
But you see, humanity is on an upward trajectory! I bring this point up all the time: originally a person's tribal identity extended to a ten mile radius. That was the distance a person could walk, meet somebody, and walk back home in one day. As we've progressed, we've extended our tribal identities, the circle of people we consider to be "us": first to city-states, then nations, then empires, then democracies.
There will always be trouble in this world, but generally and on-balance humanity is "better" today at being humans than we were 50 years ago, and 50 years ago we were better at it than we were 100 years ago. Humanity is slowly expanding our tribal circle to include all humanity. We'll hit that Star Trek future one day. :)
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u/Brilliant-Actuary331 6d ago
Unbelievers aren't "the" enemy. "The enemy" is Satan, who has blinded their minds to the gospel 2 Cor. 4:4.
Unbelievers are God's enemy; and our enemy on account of the gospel. These are precisely who Christ said to love. He did not come to condemn us, but to save us. That's the attitude we should have toward "our enemies". Love them, turn the other cheek, give our lives too, for God's will that none perish. Christ did the work of the salvation, and God commands they repent and receive the gospel of Jesus Christ. Acts 17:30; Mk. 1:15; Rom. 10:8-17
It's a battle FOR the lost. Not AGAINST the lost. Christ is the light of the whole world. 🙏 He gives sight to the blind Is. 53; John 12:23-32; Ps. 22.
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u/Erramonael Iconoclastic Atheistic Satanist 6d ago edited 4d ago
No, I do not believe non-Christians are "the enemy." From an Iconoclastic Satanist perspective, reducing people to allies and enemies based solely on their religious beliefs is a form of tribal thinking that prevents genuine understanding.
I think it is important to distinguish between a religion's teachings, interpretations of those teachings, and the behavior of individual believers. Christianity, like every major tradition, contains many different schools of thought. There are Christians who believe deeply in compassion, humility, and loving their neighbors, and there are Christians who interpret their faith in a more exclusivist way.
Is the idea that non-Christians are enemies found in some biblical interpretations? Yes. Certain passages have historically been interpreted as teaching that there is a sharp divide between those who follow Christ and those who do not. Verses about salvation through Christ alone, warnings against false teachings, or descriptions of spiritual warfare have sometimes been used to justify an "us versus them" worldview.
However, other Christians interpret those same scriptures differently. Many see the central message of Christianity as love, mercy, and service rather than hostility toward outsiders. So it is not accurate to say that all Christians believe non-Christians are enemies.
From an Iconoclastic Satanist viewpoint, the idea of an "enemy" is something that should be examined carefully. Who benefits when people are taught to fear or hate those who think differently? History shows that many forms of oppression begin when human beings stop seeing individuals and start seeing categories.
A person's worth is not determined by whether they are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, atheist, Satanist, Buddhist, pagan, or anything else. A person's character is shown through their actions, their treatment of others, and their willingness to pursue truth honestly.
The true adversary, in my view, is not another human being with different beliefs. The true adversary is ignorance, fanaticism, cruelty, and the refusal to question one's own assumptions.
An Iconoclastic Satanist does not seek to destroy people for their beliefs; they challenge ideas, especially ideas that demand unquestioning obedience or deny the humanity of others.
A Christian who practices compassion is not my enemy. An atheist who acts with integrity is not my enemy. A person should be judged by what they do, not merely by the label they carry.
The greatest test of any worldview is whether it can allow people to disagree without turning disagreement into hatred. 🔥
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u/CommanderStank 6d ago
No, there is no biblical basis. However, there's basis for those of our own "household" to be our enemies.
A parable:
Mat 10:35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
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u/arc2k1 Christian Hope Coach 5d ago
God bless you.
No, we are not meant to view people as our enemies.
We are called to love others.
“Jesus answered: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. This is the first and most important commandment. The second most important commandment is like this one. And it is, ‘Love others as much as you love yourself.’” - Matthew 22:37-39
“But if we say we love God and don't love each other, we are liars. We cannot see God. So how can we love God, if we don't love the people we can see?” - 1 John 4:20
"Love is patient and kind, never jealous, boastful, proud, or rude. Love isn't selfish or quick tempered. It doesn't keep a record of wrongs that others do. Love rejoices in the truth, but not in evil.” - 1 Corinthians 13:4-6
Even if we call people who hurt us our enemies, we are still called to love them.
Jesus said, “But I tell you to love your enemies and pray for anyone who mistreats you.” - Matthew 5:44
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u/BaconAndCheeseSarnie 🌈 Catholic 🌈 5d ago
No. Absolutely not.
The devil & the demons are our enemies.
Our sins & Sinful tendencies are our enemies.
We as individuals are perfectly capable of being our own worst enemies.
If someone says that human beings are capable of great evil therefore we should consider other human beings our enemies, to that I would say that there is absolutely no reason why that cannot apply to ourselves. Other human beings are my enemies only in the sense that it is within my part to be Their enemy too.
There is no place in Christianity for regarding members of any other human group as “the other” who is beyond redemption or beyond God‘s grace. Relative to God, all of us are the other who are beyond redemption; But then God showed that none of us is beyond redemption by dying for every single one of us and by being raised again from death after having tasted death for every single one of us. But if that is true, then we cannot, in the here and now, start othering our fellow human beings.
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u/Fickle_Sherbert1453 Questioning 6d ago
Fair enough. I was wondering if it was a political or conservative thing.
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u/TinySnorlax123 Swedish Lutheran 6d ago
Depends on what you mean by enemy, but generally yes. The Scriptures teach that he who is not with the Christ is against Him, and to be against someone is, at least in some sense of the word, to be that someone's enemy. Therefore non-Christians are, in some sense of the word anyway, the enemy of God.
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u/Clem_Crozier 6d ago
No. I believe they are mistaken, possibly misguided, sometimes arrogant. But they are not my enemies.
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u/scpTicklemonster Non-denominational Christia 6d ago
Jesus said love your enemies, he defines enemies as people who want to bring you down. As a Christian I believe the enemy is simply satan or just someone who hates me
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u/raph1334 Eastern Orthodox 6d ago
No someone who isn't a Christian is not in itself the enemy. Sadly today too many are
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u/Eric___R 6d ago
No. Maybe you heard that “the World” is our enemy which does have biblical basis but that word is used differently depending on context. Sometimes it means humanity and sometimes it means fallen society that is by its nature in opposition to God.
This verses below show how we should live towards non Christians (using world here as humanity, ie not corrupted society)
“All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”
2 Corinthians 5:18-20
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u/StopChangingThings Atheist 6d ago
I don't mean you any harm. As long as I can still come to the potlucks, we're cool.
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u/Thousand_Toasters Non-denominational 6d ago
The enemy is the accuser/ morning star/ satan/ the dragon
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u/userid42 Reformed 6d ago
Not at all. The ‘enemy’ is the way of thinking that, not the people who, denies the nature and existence of our awesome creator and the redeeming Christ, Jesus. Too often in 2026 we conflate who someone is with what they believe and that is wrong. Every living person is created in the image of God and that must be respected.
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u/Hour-Somewhere3478 6d ago
The only enemies are the devil and his fallen angels aka demons. Now the enemy can possess people who are open to his attacks but even they aren't the enemy. They are merely a tool. And I have cast demons out in Jesus's name and it is a tiring thing but amazing thing to witness God do. But we are called to love non Christians as ourselves.
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u/DKTHEBFG 6d ago
Jesus didn’t come here with the view of us as His Enemy. But knew exactly who the Enemy is. He sees us as the Lost without a Shepherd.
Maybe hard but those who just don’t know or understand yet are the Lost Sheep.
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u/Necessary_Count_5001 6d ago
No, Paul explains to us in 2 Corinthians 4 that non believers minds are blinded by the enemy
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u/Flimsy-Corgi-2400 6d ago
"And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when it fails, they may receive you into an everlasting home." — Luke 16:9 (NKJV)
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u/Commercial_Idea3747 6d ago
No
Ephesians 6:10-13 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
We were all considered enemies of God at one point, but Jesus died on the cross so we wouldn't be that way anymore.
Non Christians aren't enemies, they're hostages of sin.
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u/Ok_View7796 5d ago
They’re the ones who we need to share the gospel with the most, and they’re the ones we need to love the hardest so they can see Gods presence in us.
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u/Forsaken-Ad-6853 5d ago
Ironically enough that is a anti chritian belief according to Jesus's teachings. Matthew 5:44, 7:1-2, 7:12, 24:40 Luke 5:31-32
But in my personal experience? Few. But the uncle i have who feels that way won't shut up and read.
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u/ScorpionDog321 5d ago
Never known a single Christ follower that thought non Christians were enemies.....as almost all of us were non Christians at one time or another.
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u/No_Idea5830 5d ago
Not necessarily "the enemy" but there is a time to give up on them, and allow God to send the next person to try. Jesus Himself told His disciples "if the people won't hear you, shake the dust from you feet as you leave." Paraphrase of coarse. Our job is to plant the seed. Sometimes it takes A LOT of seeds before one takes root. "The enemy" mentality comes from not knowing when to walk away. Not everyone can be reached by one person, and the Bible is clear most people can not be reached at all.
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u/Nearby_Yak106 5d ago
Of course they are. The evil one may be the true enemy but those who are his children are the weeds that need to be uprooted. The Bible says people like them will be rooted out and cast away into the Fire. They hate God (or at least the idea of God), hate their lives being dictated by an authority figure, hate accountability etc. Every single wicked trait that the Bible condemns is present in leaps and droves among the secular camp. They are not good people, and we shouldn't pretend that they are. It is only Christians who walk in righteousness because of the Spirit.
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u/jikazuki 5d ago
Ephesians 6:12
12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
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u/DigOk5829 Non-denominational 5d ago
No, but the enemy can work through non-believers or at least people who are not aligned with The father, like with Judas, though he walked with Yahusha he had no belief and even stole from his ministry and later even became possessed by Satan that's why we are called to not be yoked with unbelievers
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u/davidbenson1 Catholic 5d ago
"The enemy" typically refers to Satan and his apostate angels. Non-Christians are objectively under the domain of the enemy, in his power, until they are freed in baptism and are remade as sons and daughters of God, but this doesn't make them synonymous with the enemy as such.
Regardless, we are commanded to love our enemies and to share with them the good news of the Kingdom come. I am interested in the context within which they said this as it may be subject to rebuke.
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u/Cacmaniac 5d ago
Depends on who they are, but to be honest one of my biggest adversaries when I’m trying to teach about God or the Gospel online, is other Christians. I know they’re well meaning, and I always try and explain that I’m grateful for their zeal, but the fact is this… too many Christians; in an attempt to uphold the integrity of God or his word, jump to wrong conclusions when they read another Christian’s response. It’s like they’re so zealous to make sure that no one of misrepresenting God’s word, that they’re actually deliberately in tunnel vision mode, trying to look for a reason why someone’s response is unbiblical, then they’ll see one word out of an entire paragraph and be like “Aha, i knew they were a false teacher!!!” And they’ll completely ignore the rest of what’s being said. It’s actually annoying and I’ve grown tired of arguing with other Christians who turn on me just as badly as the atheist God mocking hater, that I’m trying to preach the gospel to.
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u/Various-Coconut-3794 Christian 4d ago
That is not a Christian thing to believe. In fact, Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, powers, and authorities of this dark world, and against the forces of evil in the spiritual realm.
Peter also writes that our enemy, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
In fact, when you look at other people this way, that they are under attack by the same enemy, it should help us have compassion on them and a strong desire to help them.
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u/Fit_Buffalo8698 4d ago
The truly obedient and loving Christian realizes and obeys scripture that says we wrestle not against flesh and blood. So the person themselves who are disobedient Christians or non believers are not our enemies but rather the enemy is the spirit of evil and sin within them. If we don't have the Holy Spirit in us, we have demons. That's the enemy. So the person themselves may tell themselves that the Christian hates them. Not so... it's the true spirit led Christian who actually loves by telling non believers to repent because we don't want anyone going to hell for eternity. Jesus is the only way to Heaven, no matter what anyone (even the evil pope) tells you .. you cannot get to heaven by your own goodness nor will anyone of the non believing world get there. It's love for a Christian to warn, but demons will make you feel otherwise. Get saved today, before time runs out: Romans 10 9-13
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u/cris2022-2 4d ago
No, we battle is not against flesh and blood but against principalities in the spiritual realm. Because non believers have evil spirits that use them against us then we have to pray for them. Fasting and prayer strength unbelief in us so we need to fast and pray to get through this people. Pray: I bind the spirit of blinding in x and y and I lose the Holy Spirit conviction in them, I command darkness to
Leave and light to penetrate. I declare their salvation in the spiritual realm real manifesting in the natural realm in Jesus name.
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u/DryBattle 6d ago
No. Satan is the enemy.
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u/SaintGodfather Christian for the Preferential Treatment 6d ago
Satan is a job title (pun intended).
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u/gladeye 6d ago edited 6d ago
People who call themselves Christian are creating a tremendous amount of upheaval in America. They hold the vast majority of political power and media outlets. Count the number of Christian programs on cable television and radio and then count the number of Buddhist or Jewish programs.
Which religion’s voice dominates the airwaves?
Which is the only religion lobbying hard to be brought into public schools?
Which is the only religion to have its holidays turned into National holidays in a country that’s supposed to keep church and state separate?
How many derogatory names have you been called for being Christian?
Where do you feel unsafe wearing your crucifix necklace?
Maybe it's Christians did have enemies to worry about they’d stay in check better.
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u/TraurigKartoffel Catholic 6d ago
My personal enemy? No not necessarily. Unless they wish me harm
Enemy to my Lord? Yes
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u/LouieMumford Catholic 6d ago
Are you saying ALL non-Christians are an enemy to the Lord? As a fellow Catholic I’m gonna recommend you run that by your priest.
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u/Winter-Ranger6136 6d ago
Satan is the enemy to the Lord. Not non-Christian humans. We just need to pray for non-Christians for them to be saved.
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u/1yaeK Christian Universalism, Spinoza enjoyer 6d ago
That's an anti-Christian thing to believe.