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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:
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? |
Bible Answer: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible**** http://www.gospelcom.net/eword/comments/luke/gill/luke14.htm ***** Verse 26. If any man come to me,.... Not in a corporeal, but in a spiritual way; nor barely to hear him preach; but so come, as that he believes in him, applies to him for grace, pardon, righteousness, life, and salvation; professes to be his, submits to his ordinances, and desires to be a disciple of his; and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple: not that proper hatred of any, or all of these, is enjoined by Christ; for this would be contrary to the laws of God, to the first principles of nature, to all humanity, to the light of nature, to reason and divine revelation: but that these are not to be preferred to Christ, or loved more than he, as it is explained in Matthew 10:37 yea, these are to be neglected and forsaken, and turned from with indignation and resentment, when they stand in the way of the honour and interest of Christ, and dissuade from his service: such who would be accounted the disciples of Christ, should be ready to part with their dearest relations and friends, with the greatest enjoyment of life, and with life itself, when Christ calls for it; or otherwise they are not worthy to be called his disciples. The Ethiopic version inserts, "his house," into the account. |
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