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Originally Posted by TheWretch
So it's bad I love my parents?
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True Christians hate their parents. It's right there at the top of the list. I'll highlight it for you:
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Source: JESUS
If any man come to me, 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.
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Now people say "Oh, that is a special, magic sort of hatred understood in a special way by Jesus
’ special friends" but this can not be so.
This is a foundational requirement for discipleship. And in the context link Jesus even illustrates what He meant using exactly that example. Foundations. The foundation of faith.
Jesus was not speaking to any sort of "inner circle" here. He was addressing a great multitude. The words He used were words they would all understand. You say you "love your parents" and so you need to explain "what Jesus really meant" by what He said. I don't do that. Jesus
’ words mean just what they say and anyone can understand them.
Rejecting His teaching results in everlasting torture. And deservedly so. Jesus is God; His words are joyous and pure. Are you suggesting otherwise?
PURITY
PROVERBS 30
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
KJV .. look up
JOY
JEREMIAH 15
16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
KJV .. look up
There is a type of false joy I suppose, obsessing over family members or pets or freaking out at some dubstep orgy. But it is not REAL joy. And it is certainly not pure. We know that because Jesus has told us. If what the world offers as "joy" or "purity" were sufficient for Salvation there would be no point in His explaining The Truth, would there. But He
has explained and that is how we know. And that is why we are His disciples.