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NASB | Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Luke 14:26 "If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God]--he cannot be My disciple. |
Bible Question (short): Luke 14:26 and other matters |
Question (full): In Luke 14:26 Jesus says, "If any man come to me, and hate not his mother, and wife and children and brethren and sisters,yea,and his own life also,he cannot be my disciple". I understand this passage to mean that we must put our love for God first. I have tried unsuccessfully to explain this to a friend of mine's. He says he has a problem with the word hate. He contends that the word "hate", by definition has only 3 meanings, to aborr,to detest, or dislike. He says how can God tell us to "hate" these things when HE is supposed to be a God of love? I told him that that word "hate" is not meant that we should literally "hate" our loved ones, ie,to abhorr them and that God commands us to "honor thy mother and father". Then he says "now isn't that a contradiction? He says that the whole bible is subject to interpretation. How do you know which interpretation is correct? I know that the bottom line is "faith", but I would like to answer him somewhat intelligently on some matters. Can you help? |
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