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"Anyone who comes to me without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, cannot be my disciple,"
Mmmmm. Given that Jesus didn't really much seem to be into hate, my guess would be that this is dramatic hyperbole to emphasise the essential need for the primacy of the commitment to the truth of "God".
I don't call myself a Christian, and my focus on matters spiritual has waned in recent years, but talking with a visiting friend recently, I wondered how much that has to do with not having around me people I love who care about matters spiritual...which casts an interesting light on the quote too.
Dramatic hyperbole?
"Anyone who comes to me without hating father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes and his own life too, cannot be my disciple,"
Mmmmm. Given that Jesus didn't really much seem to be into hate, my guess would be that this is dramatic hyperbole to emphasise the essential need for the primacy of the commitment to the truth of "God".
I don't call myself a Christian, and my focus on matters spiritual has waned in recent years, but talking with a visiting friend recently, I wondered how much that has to do with not having around me people I love who care about matters spiritual...which casts an interesting light on the quote too.