(October 3, 2013 at 11:21 am)Searching4truth Wrote: Matt 5 would be literal and Matt 15 says something different in the translation I use;It's the same idea with this translation - Jesus is saying to put father and mother ahead of the church. So, with these two, and the general "love your neighbor," and the agreed figurative verse following the hate verse, you still don't think it possible that it's hyperbole?
3 Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.] 5 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’ 6 they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:8 “‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’
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Why is God treated like a retarded and selfish child?
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