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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. |
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Bible Note: seeking4truth - Please review my former (and only other) post to you and your adverse reaction to it. I did not presume to judge you in that post nor am I judging you now. You call my post "closed minded ignorance" and demonstrative of "the typical tactic used by cults." Your abusive accusations have absolutely no basis in fact, so I implore you to restrain yourself from making such unfounded judgments as these. I have reviewed your posts and the interaction by other Forum users which they have drawn. I believe the users who have responded to you have been, by and large, exceedingly kind and charitable toward you. And as I stated in my former post to you, you are welcome if you are seeking to find biblical truth. I've been on this Forum since near its beginning and indeed have seen other claimants to "truth seeking" who were found to be interlopers who wanted to push various agenda, from atheism to cults of every sort, or to play sinister mind games with the Forum. Thus, you may now be able to understand the point of my question about what your motives are. ..... Incidentally, a book that may be of some help in your search for truth is "The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict" by Josh McDowell (Nelson). It's in print and widely available. By the way, C. S. Lewis is one of my favorite Christian apologists too. .... And a parting thought. There is a verse of Scripture which says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. (Romans 10:17). I have a friend, a brilliant young man, who in his youth and early adult life professed to be an atheist. A Christian friend urged him to sit down and read the Bible from cover to cover before he gave up on God. To read it open-mindedly, putting aside as much as possible all preconceived notions about God and His word. The young man did read the Bible all the way from Genesis to Maps (in the NASB, by the way). Shortly afterward, he confessed Christ as his Lord and Savior and was born again in Christ Jesus, went to seminary and earned a doctorate in theology, then to Cambridge to earn a Ph.D. in apologetics, and later became a dynamic preacher and apologist of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Young man or young woman, (40's is young to me; I'm 68!) please don't take counsel of your doubts nor lean to your own understanding. That you will choose this day whom you will serve, that you will let go and let God rule your will and your life is my prayer for you. God alone can erase your doubts and cure your skepticism. You will never come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ by your own efforts alone! Soli Deo Gloria! --Hank |