Your preferring to argue that Jesus hates falls flat.Hint, Strong's Concordance also doesn't get to make up the definition of the words other people. But, Strongs hardly supports you. Strong's directly defines the word that Jesus used as "to hate, pursue with hatred, detest." Strong's merely offers that some interpreters add the definition of "love less, to postpone in love" (you're not alone in compromising the truth because you don't like what the Bible says), but this is not Strong's own definition.
Your logical error of appealing to authority falls flat.
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μισέω
miseō
mis-eh'-o
From a primary word μῖσος misos (hatred); to detest (especially to persecute); by extension to love less: - hate (-ful).
Hate, by extension, is not love of a lesser degree. No where in logic or scripture can that claim be made, except for the ad hoc sake of trying to prove the lie that God loves everyone.
1 John 4:7-21It is where the words of Jesus are concerned.
Your preferring to argue that Jesus hates falls flat.
You worship the entity you believe tells people to hate! Define hate as you wish, ignore the historic exegesis reality of scripture, that you're reading in English and that originated in Greek, for all that means to translation, (That I have not a thing to do with) and be happy. K?
Hate, by extension, is not love of a lesser degree. No where in logic or scripture can that claim be made, except for the ad hoc sake of trying to prove the lie that God loves everyone.
I shall pray for you for you are clearly in pain. May you find your way to Jesus while there is still time in your life. Amen.Indeed, he does, and that's he will throw people into Hell, including your family. But, I won't lose any loved ones.
Megachurch Pastor John MacArthur: Denominations That Allow Gay 'Marriage' Are 'Satan's Church'
By Kirsten Andersen/ Life Site News On July 16, 2014
In the wake of the Presbyterian Church (USA)'s recent decision to celebrate same-sex "marriages," celebrity pastor John MacArthur of "Grace to You" has come out with some strong statements condemning "false churches" that abandon Biblical teachings against homosexual behavior.
"They have no allegiance to the Bible," MacArthur told The Blaze online news service. "You go back to every one of those seminaries ... for a century [they] have been deniers of biblical authority, they have no relationship to scripture, they are the apostate church, they are Satan's church." (Full Article)
For a megachurch pastor, Macarthur has remained surprisingly substantive and Baptist.
There is gray area between good and apostate churches. There are practices and beliefs I don't like in some non-apostate churches. But, blessing that which God clearly calls a sin and giving approval to what is immoral, goes beyond any gray area. If the presbyteries of PCUSA don't oppose the latest evil from their leaders, PCUSA is apostate.
No, Jesus told us to hate our families or you can't be His disciple. He didn't say anything about their sins. There are many verses in the Bible telling us that we should, or that God does, hate certain people and certain kinds of people. There are no verses that teach the contrary, dishonest interpretation aside.
I point out what Jesus said as a rebuttal to those who lie and say God loves everyone, and that we should love everyone. (BTW, I've never known anyone who loves everyone. Why are people with bad doctrine always hypocrites?)
How do you think people get married when they're Christian and according to the scriptures?
I think it is obvious to those who love Christ as to what is meant in the scripture. While those opposed to the truth of his words rebel against instruction. And that even is as God wills.You do realize that Luke 14:26 is a command that has to be interpreted in a comparative manner. Christ meant that we must place Him above all other relationships to be a disciple of His. He must be Lord of all or He is not Lord at all.
He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
I think it is obvious to those who love Christ as to what is meant in the scripture. While those opposed to the truth of his words rebel against instruction. And that even is as God wills.
You should read the context of that verse. Jesus said he came to bring the sword and to turn a man against his family, that his family are his enemies. Do you want to make up a new definition for "set against"? The greek word means, "to cut into two parts, cleave asunder, sever".
Yes, we are to love Jesus more than our family, and hating our family accomplishes that to the utmost.
The truth is hidden from those who belong to their world. Their theology is secular humanism, not God's word.
You, sir, miss the entire context of the verse, and you have been shown repeatedly but reject it in favour of your own interpretation, which is at odds with the Lord. Do yourself a favour and don't mention to anyone what you've said about hating our families. It will drive people away, or drive you out of the church you go to.
Drive people away from what? America and western Europe have the most anti-Christian cultures in the world. And, that's because the churches have abandoned God's word, for anything more than pretext, and have become useless.
I think we have to ask ourselves why someone would argue so vehemently to defend their errant notion, dismissing the education afforded so as to correct their ignorance on that matter, that Jesus commanded us to hate.
When Jesus told us God is love and that we are to love our neighbor as ourselves.
I stopped reading the one poster who continues to argue Jesus commanded us to hate, in the context of the English meaning of "hate", awhile ago. I wanted to interject this since I see Euphemia still trying to deliver instruction on the correct scriptures .