To expand my point. Jesus Christ is the only one who was/is without sin. Yes, he loves the sinner.

Who is a sinner? IMHO, a sinner is one who knows he has faults and can admit he has not been pleasing or lived up to Gods expectations and wants/needs to be healed. A sinner is one who realizes that he is sick and not able to change his ways in his own power and needs a doctor to make him well. He needs someone to pick him up and dust him off and help him out.

The Pharisees did not see themselves as such. They were the ones who prayed "I thank you God that I am not like other men..." They were legalists who thought they pleased God by their own works and traditions. They did not see themselves as sinners in need of a savior.

The Pharisees had no fellowship with Christ because they did not see themselves as naked and in need of his covering. Even as Adam and Eve hid themselves when they became aware they were naked, even so sin causes us to hide ourselves from God today. But The Spirit Of Jesus Christ gives a man the power to overcome those things which separate a man from fellowship with God. His Holy Spirit gives a man power over the things which cause him to stumble and separate himself from God. His Spirit is a covering for our nakedness. For those who put on Christ as such a covering.

JMHO.

peace,