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Originally Posted by seekerman
I think you're missing the point. You want hyperbole when you need hyperbole and you want hate when you need hate.
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No. It's a hyperbole because not only does it ask for an extreme action it contradicts scripture
Mat 5:43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
Mat 5:44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
Mat 24:10 And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another.
Tit 3:3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
1Jn 2:9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
Luk 10:27 And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind,
and your neighbor as yourself."
What He is saying, by way of a hyperbole, is your love for God must be much much more than even your love for parents...it must pale in comparison just as hate compared to love
Mat 10:37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Mat 22:37 And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
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