missmuffet Posted October 14, 2013 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,991 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,689 Content Per Day: 11.80 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted October 14, 2013 Jesus may have chosen the word "hate" to show us that this is how a mother or father will perceive the actions of a child who chooses the Lord above them.They will see it as disloyal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 16, 2013 Share Posted October 16, 2013 “Hating” is a Semitic expression for loving less. Idioms like this occur from time to time in the bible, and when we encounter them in English translations, we easily misunderstand them by taking them in a literal English sense, instead of the sense they convey in the original language. I believe all Jesus is saying here is if you love anything or anyone, more than you love Him, you are not really a disciple, because to be His disciple, you cannot have any idols, cannot have anyone or anything that is more important to you, than He is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardigon Posted October 22, 2013 Group: Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 8 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/22/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted October 22, 2013 When Jesus said this he was on the road to Jerusalem. He knew that he was on his way to the cross; the crowds who were with him thought that he was on his way to an empire. That is why he spoke to them like this. In the most vivid way possible he told them that those who followed him were not on the way to worldly power and glory, but must be ready for a loyalty which would sacrifice the dearest things in life and for a suffering which would be like the agony of a man upon a cross. We must not take his words with cold and unimaginative literalness. The language of the middle east is always as vivid as the human mind can make it. When Jesus tells us to hate our nearest and dearest, he does not mean that literally. He means that no love in life can compare with the love we must bear to him. There is a very suggestive truth within this passage. 1.) It is possible to be a follower of Jesus without being a disciple; to be a camp-follower without being a soldier of the king; to be a hanger-on in some great work without pulling one's weight. Once someone was talking to a great scholar about a younger man. He said, "So and so tells me that he was one of your students." The teacher answered devastatingly, "He may have attended my lectures, but he was not one of my students." It is one of the supreme handicaps of the Church that in it there are so many distant followers of Jesus and so few real disciples. In every sphere of life each one of us is called to count the cost. In the introduction to the marriage ceremony according to the forms of the Church of Scotland, the minister says, "Marriage is not to be entered upon lightly or unadvisedly, but thoughtfully, reverently, and in the fear of God." A man and woman must count the cost. It is so with the Christian way. But if we are daunted by the high demands of Christ let us remember that we are not left to fulfill them alone. He who called us to the steep road will walk with us every step of the way and be there at the end to meet us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One With Him Posted November 18, 2013 Group: Junior Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 84 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 10 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/18/2013 Status: Offline Birthday: 07/29/1971 Share Posted November 18, 2013 When you look at the Love you have for Christ the Love you have for other things should seem like hate. "Love your neigbor as yourself" But, "seek ye first the Kingdom of God" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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