Is Jesus a HOMEBREAKER?

Question

Apparently, Jesus said to love "God" so much that "your love for your parents, brothers, sisters, friends, and even your OWN life is like HATRED compared to your love and devotion for "God..."

***Does anyone else find this kinda creepy? It's like telling people to abandon their love for their dearest people to worship some unknown.

Btw I got the quote from a pro-Christian website....

wayofthemaster.com

Answer 1

God bless Kirk Cameron of Growing Pains fame. He and Ray Comfort seem to be all about aggressively confronting people. What they do can be effective as evangelism in some situations with some people, but not with all. When this sort of thing is placed on the internet for all to see, it leaves a lot of cleaning up to do. Of course your quotation is taken out of context.

What they are saying is in a sense true. This however does not make Jesus a homebreaker. I know you won't like this answer because I've read your other postings and know your bias on the issue.

Jesus did in essence say that following God is more important than your family, if your family is keeping you from following God. However, the importance of family relationships and loving your fellow man is throughout Jesus' teachings as well. This is not a contradiction unless you take the teachings entirely out of context. They are in fact related. The point is that true love can only come from God.

Besides, the idea in Christianity is not that God is unknown, but that he is immenently knowable. We may not know everything about him, but neither can we know everything about a spouse.

So do I find this creepy? Not really. There are other quotes from this website that can be taken out of context to refute what you say, but they aren't really addressing the same issues so it isn't fair, but here is an example from their FAQ: "In Christ, your works are pleasing to God. They can't and don't justify you, but you can now make God smile when you do good works, evangelize, love your husband/wife, etc . . ."

Answer 2

I'm going out on a limb and saying that Jesus never said that in those words. Sure people have said and written that he said that, but I find that doubtful.

The New Testament is full of contradictions, mis-interpretations, re-interpretations, and inaccuracies. Back in that day (after the Council of Nicea when the books of the bible were chosen), the only way to get to GOD was through the Church, so, again, I question the motivation of someone writing that the Church is more important than everything else.....

Plus alot of these sites have "quotes" that aren't attributable to anything since people rarely take the time to look these things up.

Answer 3

Pay attention to this. Every person on this earth is a child of GOD. However, there are a lot of people who refuse to accept GOD and Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Jesus was not telling you to hate your family. He was simply telling you to love GOD and never abandon him or doubt him. For what he tells us is true. Our families may abandon GOD throughout our lives or not ever know GOD at all. This is what Jesus meant by loving GOD more. Thank you and GOD bless.

Answer 4

--Good question, but are you aware that the word hate, contains the connotation of loving someone or something less, rather than a vehemence?

*** it-1 pp. 1042-1043 Hate **
In the Scriptures the word “hate” has several shades of meaning. It may denote intense hostility, sustained ill will often accompanied by malice. Such hate may become a consuming emotion seeking to bring harm to its object. “Hate” may also signify a strong dislike but without any intent to bring harm to the object, seeking instead to avoid it because of a feeling of loathing toward it. The Bible also employs the word “hate” to mean loving to a lesser degree. (Ge 29:31, 33; De 21:15, 16) For example, Jesus Christ said: “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own soul, he cannot be my disciple.” (Lu 14:26) Obviously Jesus did not mean that his followers were to feel hostility or loathing toward their families and toward themselves, as this would not be in agreement with the rest of the Scriptures.—Compare Mr 12:29-31; Eph 5:28, 29, 33...........
.....AVOIDING IMPROPER HATRED
Upon becoming Christians, persons who formerly hated one another do so no longer. (Tit 3:3) The one hating his brother is still walking in darkness, and any claim on his part to be a lover of God would really be a lie. Hatred of one’s brother is tantamount to murder.—1Jo 2:9, 11; 4:20; 3:15.
Sentimentality can cause one’s view of love and hate to get out of balance, as was apparently true of David in connection with his son Absalom. (2Sa 18:33; 19:1-6) Thus, too, “the one holding back his rod is hating his son, but the one loving him is he that does look for him with discipline.”—Pr 13:24.
By respecting the privacy of others and showing loving consideration, a person can avoid unnecessarily making himself an object of hatred. Hence the advice: “Make your foot rare at the house of your fellowman, that he may not have his sufficiency of you and certainly hate you.”—Pr 2

Answer 5

By the way, if you visited wayofthemaster, watch one of that man's movies, it's called Left Behind (1 and 2)
Jesus told us to love the people around us as we love ourselves. Does that sound like breaking homes? He only said that our spiritual life with Him is far more important than earthly things. So if our family would stop us from following Him and doing what pleases Him, we should put Him first, and not them. It's like when somebody you love asks you to do something you hate and you know it's wrong. Good and evil are beyong our families opinions of what they are. There is only one truth, and what people think cannot change it.

Answer 6

Jesus is not a homebreaker. He's a home fixer-upper.
When you love Him the way He says, your love for others, and particularly for your family will actually increase, but will still be as nothing compared to your love for Him.
Actually when Jesus talks about "loving" and "hating", (as in loving Jacob and hating Esau), he's describing a choice: choosing one over the other.
For some religious people, choosing God over their family becomes terrible because of their distorted view of God. They don't really choose God they choose a god of their own invention.
But choosing God as He really is, will augment your love for family.

Answer 7

Actually, Jesus said two important things: Love God and love your neighbour as yourself. The first credo is self-explanatory. Please note that we are to love others [neighbours] in the same way and to the same degree as we love ourselves. Consequently, Jesus asks us to become capable of loving others and of loving ourselves. This is not a homebreaker but a homemaker. We must always keep becoming a better person ourselves and striving to love our mate, our children and our neighbours to the best of our ability as a lasting gift to ourselves and to God. Don't ever listen to this exclusionary nonsense that tries to keep you from becoming what you can be.

Answer 8

You have taken it out of context.

When the word hate is used in this verse, it simply means that we should not love them more than we love God. We should always put God first before everyone else.

God
Your spouse
Your children
others (including relatives and other people)
youself (always last)

Answer 9

The call Jesus is all over the recent testomony Bible mutually as the call Jehovah does not exist interior the NT. provide up finding at your Watchtower magazines and study the actual Bible, no longer the fake bible with that Jehovah call inserted all over the NT! Jesus is Lord!!!

Answer 10

loving God more than your parents, siblings, friends, and yourself so much that your other love is like hatred doesn't mean you hate your family and friends. and it doesn't mean you abandon that love. full love of God makes you more capable of loving the people in your life