14:26- If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and his mother, his wife ans children, his brothers and sisters, yes even his own life- he cannot be my deciple.
2007-11-15 02:12:02 · 20 answers · asked by Stevo 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-11-15 02:13:31 · update #1
I read this and thought it was strange also...I have a study bible and look it up, it says to love less..........meaning you cant put anything before Christ..........
I would like to know the original Hebrew text on that, because things get lost in translation to a degree the word hate may have a complete different meaning in that sentence. Like if there is a certian conjuction before it, it may represent clearly to mean to: love less .Do you get that?
It seems so crazy demanding you know.....but i've been serving the Lord for 12 yrs now and His way is always best...I have found when I put Christ first in everything.......He makes it better....when I put my love on Him1st, He blesses my family and my relationships even more! It really is a win-win...
It's been years that my family sorta were at odds with my charizmatic faith but I just stuck with what I knew to be the truth many times just keeping my mouth shut when they would say stuff.........
now.....it's a wonder.... I say things in accordance with the word and the darkness that use to stir up strife is not as strong...I can sence it in the spirit...God is good ALWAYS
be expecting BLESSINGS ARE COMING TO ALL BELIEVERS.................AMEN
Just a visual came to me...
If you were a Knight ordained by the King would not your honor and allegience be first to serve the Kings command?
2007-11-15 02:37:22 · answer #1 · answered by Cheeta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is above all. Your family and friends may try to draw you away from the Lord, but who decides your eternity? They don't. He does.
When I got involved in the fight against abortion, I had to leave my mother and my sister and her family, for a time. I could have stayed with them and enjoyed their company, but I would have been in rebellion against God's will. In essence, I gave them up.
Since I followed God's will, my family has been restored in greater measure, as the Holy Spirit once put it to me. Not only am I still close to my family, but I now have a wonderful wife and 3 (so far) wonderful children.
For Niki: Actually, the word hate is used in this passage. It refers to not putting your own life and desires before those of the Lord. It illustrates that even your family should be secondary to Jesus. If they were to ask you to deny Christ for their love, then you would have to make a decision whether you are going to love them or Jesus more.
2007-11-15 10:25:58 · answer #2 · answered by †Lawrence R† 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some claim that Jesus taught his disciples to hate their mother and father. If that was true, that would obviously make Jesus to be an immoral and unethical teacher, immoral, since one of the Ten Commandments is to honor one's mother and father.
Understanding the Jewish background to Jesus' teaching puts an entirely different light on his words.
We know that in biblical idiom to hate can mean to love less. When, for example, regulations are laid down in the Old Testament law for a man who has two wives, "one beloved and the other hated" (Deut. 21:15), it is not necessary to suppose that he positively hates the latter wife; all that need be meant is that he loves her less than the other and must be prevented from showing favouritism to the other's son when he allocates his property among his heirs. The RSV indicates that positive hatred is not intended by speaking of the one wife as "the loved" and the other as "the disliked," but the Hebrew word used is that which regularly means "hated," and it is so rendered in the AV.
That hating in this saying of Jesus means loving less is shown by the parallel saying in Matthew 10:37: "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." In Matthew's Gospel these words are followed by the saying about taking up the cross and following Jesus: the implication of this sequence is that giving one's family second place to the kingdom of God is one way of taking up the cross."
2007-11-15 10:19:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Jesus often magnified the solution to a problem to make a point. Jesus wanted us to look beyond all the steps that we could possibly take. He wanted us to love God more than we love any other person in this world. Hate in this context may be understood as love less.
2007-11-15 10:25:13 · answer #4 · answered by happy_magooo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Luke 14:26
"Anyone who wants to be my follower must love me far more than he does his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, ore sister-yes more than is own life, otherwise he can't be my follower.
He didn't us the word hate.
2007-11-15 10:24:00 · answer #5 · answered by Nikki 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus said it another way also, "What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?"
The first and greatest commandment is "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."
Jesus said, this is the first and great commandment. When God is first on your mind, then everything else including your family falls into place.
We must have peace with God, peace with Others and peace with Ourself and we achieve this by putting God first.
2007-11-15 10:35:34 · answer #6 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The word hate here actually means 'love less'. You aren't to hate them in our terms of hate but to love God more.
2007-11-15 10:29:14 · answer #7 · answered by myste15 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That should have been translated “love less”, not “hate”.
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The Ten Commandments say to honor your parents, not to hate them.
The manuscripts are the real Bible, not translations of it.
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For those who cannot handle the manuscripts, get an original Strong’s Concordance, which will allow you to take any word in the KJV back to the original languages.
2007-11-15 10:17:32 · answer #8 · answered by David G 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
It is a metaphor.
Our love towards our loved ones should pale in comparison with our love for Jesus Christ. When compared with our love for Jesus, the love within families should appear as nothing.
Other passages tell us to love our enemies, love our neighbors, love our spouses, and to love one another...
hate is therefore used as a metaphor.
2007-11-15 10:21:04 · answer #9 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are to love the Lord more than anything else in life. You are to put him first.
2007-11-15 10:23:47 · answer #10 · answered by B"Quotes 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋