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Why is God treated like a retarded and selfish child?

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Why is God treated like a retarded and selfish child?
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RE: Why is God treated like a retarded and selfish child?
October 3, 2013 at 10:05 am
(October 3, 2013 at 9:20 am)Searching4truth Wrote: Luke 14:26 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.
Although I admit that I was wrong about seeing heaven, Jesus is still speaking against his other teachings. I can never be a disciple of Christ therefore I can never know him and will be cast away because of such
Yes, these words go against other teachings. Jesus said that the greatest commandment is to love god, and the second to love your neighbor. Considering that, do you think it's possible that the verse above is hyperbole?

If you're taking each verse separately and literally, then I won't be saved either, as the next verse is:
27 And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

and I've never literally borne a cross. Is it possible that this is a figure of speech referring to hardships caused by faith in general, and not specifically to bearing a cross?
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