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Gannet495 · 08-07-2007, 06:20 PM

> Luke!... you quote Luke where Jesus tells us to hate our parents and kids?

In comparison to our love for God, who MADE us [and our parents and kids], it should be far greater than our love for any other being. Even if we can't see God, we know he made us, and he made everything we enjoy, see, touch, etc, so as such our love for our parents (etc) should be, in comparison, hate, compared to how much we love God. However we're equally commanded to love others as Jesus has loved us. You understand the teaching method of exaggeration yes? That's what Jesus was using in Luke. Much like he talked about cutting off one's own hand rather than ever sin with that hand again, it is a style of teaching used to emphasize the dire importance and necessity of a given doctrine (i.e. loving God, or in the latter case, stopping sinning/repenting).

08-07-2007, 06:20 PM	#8
Gannet495 Disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, God's Son Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 22	> Luke!... you quote Luke where Jesus tells us to hate our parents and kids? In comparison to our love for God, who MADE us [and our parents and kids], it should be far greater than our love for any other being. Even if we can't see God, we know he made us, and he made everything we enjoy, see, touch, etc, so as such our love for our parents (etc) should be, in comparison, hate, compared to how much we love God. However we're equally commanded to love others as Jesus has loved us. You understand the teaching method of exaggeration yes? That's what Jesus was using in Luke. Much like he talked about cutting off one's own hand rather than ever sin with that hand again, it is a style of teaching used to emphasize the dire importance and necessity of a given doctrine (i.e. loving God, or in the latter case, stopping sinning/repenting).