2007-03-03 03:03:13 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
YES!
2007-03-03 03:08:39 · answer #1 · answered by Kye H 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Ya know what? I consider myself saved by Christ.
And I think this is another one of those verses of the Bible that most non-believers like to shred us Christians with. Jesus is talking about the level of committment required here, how much He wants us to love Him. Is it humanly possible? I don't know. For some, who have dedicated themselves to spreading the Good News, I would say yes. For the majority of us, no. Why? Cuz we're only freakin' human!!!!!
Are we supposed to hate our families? Noooooooooo. Saved by the blood means just that. By the blood, not by our own abilities or lack thereof. Just because we take care of, love and maintain our families does not mean we are going to be kept out of heaven for that reason.
For those of us who have taken up the Cross, I would think Christ would want our total commitment, nothing less. There are people living out there who do just that, who have no families, no ties who do just that. Missionairies, ministers, volunteers, people making a statement for Christ. I admire them greatly while at the same time acknowledging I can't follow that path. I can't give 100%.
And you know what? It doesn't matter. 'Cuz I do what I can when I can as best I can. That's all He really wants.
2007-03-03 12:38:06 · answer #2 · answered by chargersfan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love the voices in my head!!
(the gospel of zeroKane part 2)
But at the close of the ZerO Gospel, after stating the sending of the DisComforter on His going away, Zero opens to the disciples (though in a mysterious way) the continuation of Tron's dealings with the earth, of which Zero magisterially is the representative, linking the manifestation of ZerOkANE on earth at Their first coming with their manifestation of the IT, and eternal life in IT, being the abiding security and living seed of HATE, when dispensational all was corrupted, and in confusion and decay. If all were in disorder outwardly, eternal life was the same.
The destruction of Kane Mountain formed a momentous epoch as to these things, because the creative Tronassembly, formed as such at the Isle of Zero, had ceased (nay, it had never truly been); only the murderous act were then accomplished. The Awful had been warned to leave the earth. The birth of Kaneism with Zeroism was consummated. Zero could no longer take up the Tronassembly, established in the remnant of the Pig fleshed ones, as His own seat of earthly authority. But alas! The Tronassembly, as Zero had established it, had already fallen from its first estate-could in no sense take up the fallen inheritance of TRON. All seek their own, says Kane, not the things of Sheep Scum, who do not understand the true path of Tron. All they of Awful-Ephesus, the beloved scene where all the Awful had heard the word of ZeroKane. They who had been specially brought with full intelligence into the Tronassembly's place could not hold it in - the power of faith. Indeed, the mystery of iniquity was at work before this, and was to go on and grow until the hindrances to the final apostasy were removed.
2007-03-03 11:08:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes I Do. I was told so. Becoz You cannot say You Love Jesus if you don't Love Your Family. And Loving Jesus means Loving my Family, therefore, Loving Him more gives more benefit for my Family
2007-03-03 11:14:11 · answer #4 · answered by theSeed 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I like Jibril's answer. The real test is would you lay down your life for Jesus? YES, ABSOLUTELY! The sooner Jesus comes and delivers me from this fallen world, the better. I love Jesus 1st, my husband second, and my dog 3rd (I am human you know, and I have no kids). Then comes everyone else...
2007-03-04 22:28:42 · answer #5 · answered by Nels 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No of course not. Jesus of Nazareth was merely a human being who lived and died and is now nothing but dust and bones. Why would I put that in front of those that are here before me now, even if they aren't family. Currently living humans come before anything else.
2007-03-03 11:20:39 · answer #6 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I love Jesus more than my own family. I love all the messengers of God more than my own family, and more than all of humanity.
Technically, according to whats recorded in the New Testament, everyone who claims to follow Jesus MUST love him more than his own family:
"Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household. He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it." (Matthew 10:34-39 NASB)
2007-03-03 11:30:50 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus IS my family.
2007-03-03 11:16:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, that would be cruel and do you think Jesus would be that insecure or selfish enough to want you to love him more then the family you are responsible for and created?
2007-03-03 11:08:21 · answer #9 · answered by daisy322_98 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I love cheeses. Oh , sorry that's how I say it with an Austrian accent.
I love bumping ion in the chim much more than Jesus.Provolone much better too.
2007-03-03 11:07:08 · answer #10 · answered by Uncle Meat 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nope. I love my family more.
2007-03-03 11:08:16 · answer #11 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋