~~*Swoops into room and kisses Squishy hard on the mouth*~~ Hi, Pinhead!
How not? *Thunders* BECAUSE GOD SAID SO!! God had both the Oedipal and Electra complexes, not to mention a penchant for incest. Hate 'em! Screw 'em first! Die a fiery death!
This is why I have converted to Christianity. What could be more fun?!
*TurkeySub77* - Which NT are YOU reading? Mine says exactly what Squishy wrote. I try to read from the ORIGINAL texts you see, not the ones written a decade and a half later. You must convert to the original texts in order to save your soul, dear!
EDIT: Hmm. No one has answered your question as to why they could love a character in a book more than their own families. Wow. From the time I was 3 I loved Sesame Street and Curious George books more! It's really quite simple.
Hey, you inspired me! Twice in fact:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070415164233AAW3h6i&pa=FYd1D2bwHTHwI7xgHOo.RJyt34aMnbVYf4OUlbafr_AQZMTCquPd01SxuxOGmqbi5mHcPkWJAd2w3w--&paid=asked&msgr_status=
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsY5V4OqlVCiqsAHo7iU4N7sy6IX?qid=20070415163802AAJMoax
Wow Squishy! You're almost as inspiring as Jesus Christ himself!
2007-04-15 12:25:11
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answered by Me, Thrice-Baked 5
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Dear Squishy,
Just ignore the mean spirited answers you got. I'm sure there are lots of Christians out there who are really nice people who don't believe that stuff literally. As a pagan, I don't believe it at all. YOU don't have to believe it, and I sense that whoever does take the Bible to heart must have some way to handle those types of verses. Nobody can tell you not to love your family, and I'm sure you do love your family. I love mine! That's another nice thing about being a pagan: no bible
Bright blessings!
Lady Morgana )0(
2007-04-15 12:29:40
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answered by Lady Morgana 7
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Don't misunderstand Jesus and think that I have got to hate my father, and my mother, because that is just the opposite of what the gospel teaches. The fruit of the Spirit is love. And if say I love God and hate my brother, I am a liar and the truth is not in me. How can I love God who I haven't seen and hate my brother who I have seen? Then what does Jesus mean, unless you hate your father, mother, brothers and so forth? That is in the language a comparative.
Your love for Jesus Christ must be supreme. It must be greater than your love for your family, your home or yourself, because it may cost you all of these things to follow Jesus Christ. And for many of those people it did cost all those things. Following Christ did cost some of them their families, their family relationships. For they were ostracized by their families when they made their commitment to Jesus Christ. And the same is true today. Many people have found it quite costly to follow Jesus Christ. It cost them their family relationships. But Jesus said if you are not willing to give up these family relationships, you can't really be My disciple. You have got to love Me more than you love any other relationship that you have. Your love for Me must be supreme and every other love must be subservient to your love for Me.
2007-04-15 12:46:02
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answered by NickofTyme 6
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Here's the Amplified Version of the Bible for clearity on this verse.
"If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God] and [likewise] his wife and children and brothers and sisters--[yes] and even his own life also--he cannot be My disciple."
2007-04-15 12:36:40
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answered by stpolycarp77 6
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Excellent point. If that was really true, the only true Christians would be God-obsessed with no friends or family.
But everyone else is right. It doesn't mean hate everyone. It means to love God so much that in comparison, all your other love seems like hate.
Personally, I don't understand how you could love a deity with no proof of existence more than your own family, but that's a different story.
2007-04-15 12:20:17
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answered by Anonymous
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You cannot possibly take one vers and go with that without reading all of the bible. Jesus is not saying to go ahead and hate your family. He tells us to love all. So why the contradiction, if you will? He tells us that if we follow Him we may encounter hate from those who love us. Many can certainly attest to that. I like what Chuck Smith has to say about it.
(Jesus) I am not going to be popular, being acclaimed as king. I am going to be crucified. There is a real cost if you are going to come after Me. You better count the cost. You better measure it.
Now, don't misunderstand Jesus and think that I have got to hate my father, and my mother, because that is just the opposite of what the gospel teaches. The fruit of the Spirit is love. And if say I love God and hate my brother, I am a liar and the truth is not in me. How can I love God who I haven't seen and hate my brother who I have seen? Then what does Jesus mean, unless you hate your father, mother, brothers and so forth? That is in the language a comparative.
Your love for Jesus Christ must be supreme. It must be greater than your love for your family, your home or yourself, because it may cost you all of these things to follow Jesus Christ. And for many of those people it did cost all those things. Following Christ did cost some of them their families, their family relationships. For they were ostracized by their families when they made their commitment to Jesus Christ. And the same is true today. Many people have found it quite costly to follow Jesus Christ. It cost them their family relationships. But Jesus said if you are not willing to give up these family relationships, you can't really be My disciple. You have got to love Me more than you love any other relationship that you have. Your love for Me must be supreme and every other love must be subservient to your love for Me.
2007-04-15 12:25:10
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answered by VW 6
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god gives knowledge & understanding and if you ask him he will give you an answer. Jesus is not telling you to hate your family and friends its a parable everyone who says they love god will do what god tells me to do , but thats not true because as long as you have a family, kids or whatever, if god ask you at this very moment to leave your wife & kids or mother and follow me not ever seeing her again would you do that? answer no because you have that fleshly love and love them more than you love god but it is much easlier for you to follow me if you hate them , jesus is not telling you to hate your family, its easyer for a single person to follow jesus and become a disciple because they have no wife or kids to worry about. so before you look at things in the flesh pray on it and god will revile it to you
2007-04-15 13:29:16
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answered by faith 2
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The problem is that the King James translation has botched the meaning of the verse. Here is what Strong's Concordance says about the verb that is translated as "hate" in that sentence:
miseō (Mis-eh'-o)
From a primary word μῖσος misos (hatred); to detest (especially to persecute); by extension to love less: - hate (-ful).
Based on the actual meaning of the verb, what Jesus is saying is that if you love Him less than you do your family and your own life, you aren't capable of being His disciple. A Christian is expected to surrender everything to Jesus and accept His will for their lives, instead of putting family, friends, job, or anything else ahead of His work.
The same verb is used in Rom 9:13: "As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." Again, the implication is that not that God didn't love Esau at all, but that He loved Jacob more than his brother.
So I can still love my family, my friends, and anything else that God places in my life, but I am not to love them more than I do Jesus and His will for my life. He has to be first.
So what is your next objection to accepting Christ going to be?
2007-04-15 12:26:45
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answered by Wolfeblayde 7
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This verse cross references Matthew 10:37 which says, "Anyone who loves his father and mother more than me is not worthy of me;anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me." He commands us to love our family! It is a law of God. He just does not want it to get in the way of our relationship with him. Of course skeptics want to think Jesus is preaching hate, though.
2007-04-15 12:37:04
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answered by 1901pink 4
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they don't look to be Jews because Jew's do not trust the messiah has come yet. they don't trust Jesus so believing in Jesus and saying your Jewish obviously contradicts one yet another.... it really is unhappy that there are those Evangelist Christians that call themselves "Jews". quit this custom now, your disgracing both Judaism and Christianity.
2016-12-04 02:21:51
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answered by Anonymous
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