Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple.
Matthew 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
--Jesus prophesies that families will be torn apart because of Him.
Matthew 10:34-36 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. 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. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
--Jesus says that he has come to destroy families by making family members hate each other. He has "come not to send peace, but a sword."
2007-06-02 00:45:43 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.duke.edu/web/gcf/cgi-out/3.html
Friends, Jesus wants us to hate our father and mother and children or we will never enter the kingdom of God. if you have not started to hate your relatives you are not born again. Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Amen!
2007-06-02 00:47:49 · update #1
Cool. My "family" are a bunch of nut-cases. Seriously. I'm sick and tired of stupid religious people talking about "respecting parents".
My way of respecting my parents is to stay the hell away from them. They are mentally unstable, mean-spirited, unsupportive, neglectful idiots.
It's good to hear Bible verses like those above. Kudos.
2007-06-02 00:49:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
If you use a text as a proof text, it becomes a pretext.
Look at the context of these verses before you spout off with your nonsense.
Luke 14:26 is not about hate, it's about commitment. The word translated as "hate" is a word meaning "less favor". If you love others more than Christ, you cannot be His disciple. Just like of you love other women more that your fiance, you cannot be her husband.
Matthew 10:21 is about people like you who will betray your family who are believers, not the way you have tried to make it sound. Come on dude, be honest about it instead of trying to lie about Jesus and make Him out to be something He isn't.
Matthew 10:34-36 is about when a person accepts Jesus and the rest of His family do not, there is a division there. It is unfortunate but true. Jesus intention would be not to cause hate, but as you can see by this forum, hatred abounds because people see what they want to see regardless of the truth. Peace.
2007-06-02 00:57:40 · answer #2 · answered by MiKal-el 2 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Like my friend said, "It's a case of too many interpreters."
Jesus said his words were Spirit, and Life! He was talking about giving up attachments, that keep us attached to this world, and coming back again and again. By "hating" our Loved Ones, we actually show them Great Love. By freeing them from karmic debts and such things. And they too can achieve the Higher States.
We will see them again. And we will have a True Spiritual Love for them. Not a selfish holding-on love, where we hate God when he lets them come back home to Heaven. There will be nothing like the ecstasy we feel when we bond with their spirits, and then lovingly let them go!
2007-06-02 01:15:13 · answer #3 · answered by THE NEXT LEVEL 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus doesn't want us to hate anyone, not even our enemies (i.e. people who are against us). He has said:
(a) Love thy neighbour as thyself
(b) Love your enemy. Do good to them who hate you and despitefully use you.
(c) Forgive others 70 times 7.
(d) God puts orphans and widows into families.
(e) When father and mother forsake you, i will pick you up.
(f) Here remains faith, hope and charity (Godly love), but the greatest of these is charity.
Surely you must have come across several such directives in your search of the word.
All Jesus was saying in the passages you have quoted is that when we accept Him and He begins to live in our hearts and have full control of our lives (that is, we begin doing things His way) then even our relatives and friends are likely to turn against us. He forewarns us, so that we will not be shocked or discouraged when it happens.
Jesus wants us to love EVERYBODY, because "God is love."
2007-06-02 01:19:15 · answer #4 · answered by LovablyMe 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Pastor Mike,
Taking the teachings of Christ, who is the true and complete essence of Love, and twisting them to teach impressionable minds to hate is not what our dear and loving Savior had in mind.
Jesus was NOT advocating hatred of family. The essence of this teaching is that Jesus wants to be first in our hearts above all other relationships and above all that we possess (physical and non-physical). Our Lord must always be first in our lives, but that certainly doesn't mean that we are to hate family. The rifts that Christ spoke of are the ones that happen when someone becomes a believer and their family is non-believing. I have experienced this myself, but I certainly don't hate my family. I continue to love them with the unconditional love of Christ and always will..
Your interpretation of these passages is, to say the least, somewhat off base and not in the true spirit of what our Lord was trying to convey.
2007-06-05 16:36:44 · answer #5 · answered by Penelope W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man, are you off-base, or what??!!!
You prove the saying that a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Are you saying that the son of God, the creator of the family unit, is telling us to hate?
Is it not obvious you are taking things out of context?
Jesus would prefer to have all fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers be his followers.
United families.
However, in a pinch, when your back is to the wall, who takes priority:
Family or Christ?
That's all he wanted to say.
2007-06-02 01:12:54 · answer #6 · answered by Uncle Thesis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think here you are taking the word hate too literally . what he is saying here is do not put others before your Lord. Put him first in your life concerning all things.Do what he leads you to do in the service of the Lord.
He wasn't meaning to literally hate them.
And the reason he wants us to put him first is because we would let our family , ourselves etc. stop us from doing the things of God sometimes.
2007-06-02 01:45:45 · answer #7 · answered by Ladybyrd 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Friend, you look but you do not see. He is warning us that sin is in the world. Sin is what does that. He is coming to give us a way out and then he will come back and rid all sin from the world, and bring the saved out. Fallen Angels like Satin are still polluting the world, so there will be much hate.
It is the sad truth, friend.
2007-06-02 00:50:53 · answer #8 · answered by Silmiss 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I see that you do not have a very good command of the English language.
Have you ever read the book "Animal Farm" or "Moby Dick"?Do you think they were about ANIMALS on a farm and about a WHALE?
Reading is one thing; interpreting what is read is something completely different. There is a whole field of study called 'hermeneutics', especially as it relates to interpretation of ancient writings.
2007-06-02 01:01:33 · answer #9 · answered by flandargo 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No he did no longer and might't undergo in strategies any of the adult adult males interior the family contributors having a mustache! My hubby had one and it replaced into like a cord brush! He had to shave it off as a results of fact my face replaced right into a large number! pink bumps!
2016-12-12 09:04:51 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not expect us to literally hate our families. What Jesus was saying is that He has to be number one over everyone. You cannot put your family before Him. And yes, families will be torn apart. In families where there are unbelievers and people of different faiths, and you have one or two come to Christ, that does split the family apart sometimes.
2007-06-02 00:51:27 · answer #11 · answered by Kat 3 · 5⤊ 2⤋