Jerry Shugart said:
Why are you flash posting,ChristisKing?
I answered the verse that you quoted already by citing a Greek expert as to the meaning of the word translated "hate".It can mean
"to love less"(
"Thayer's Greek English Lexicon").
In other words,in order to be disciples of the Lord we must love Him even more than we love ourselves and our family.
I love my family very much.Perhaps you can give me some advice as how I can muster up some hate for them.
In His grace,--Jerry
"Dispensationalism Made Easy"
http://midacts.net/studies/shugart-..._made_easy.html
From Post #367 page 25: (Missed in the "flash")
"I confessed to you that I hate them in the context of how Christ meant hate here, not in the context of how
God hated Easu. God hated Esau in a different context. Scripture records that
God hated Esau with a hatred that would cause Him to
"lay his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness." God hated Esau with a hatred that when Esau said, "We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places;" that the LORD of hosts said,
"They shall build, but I will throw down." God said that He hated Esau with such a hatred that Esau and his people would be known on earth as
"The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever."
Christ was teaching that we should hate anyone that stands in the way of our coming to Him,
not with the same hatred that God hated Esau, that is we should not "lay their mountains and heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness, destroy all that they built or be indignate against them forever." The hatred Christ spoke of us to have was to uterally despise the love of all these relations for us as they use that love to convince us not to come to Christ! For instance the Jews excommunicate a family member from their family if they embrace Christ, that Christian family member should
embrace that excommunication!!
You are making the same error with the word "hate" that you are making with "all men." You think that these words all have the same meaning everywhere they are used in Scripture, and I have proven to you that they do not. That is a very naive and simplistic way to interpret Scripture and I'm afraid it has led you into the heresy of Open Theism."
Jesus said:
LUK 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.
I hate my father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters and my own life like Christ commanded Jerry, do you?
A simple yes or no will suffice.