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- From: gordons@netcom.com (Gordon Storga)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: What is Sex to God?
- Message-ID: <df5m+p=.gordons@netcom.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 07:09:37 GMT
- References: <adams.712851780@spssig> <1992Aug5.005050.5181@coopsol.com> <adams.713117979@spssig>
- Organization: Stay Awake Software
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- <adams.713117979@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
- >gordons@coopsol.com (Gordon Storga) writes:
- >><adams.712851780@spssig> adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) said:
- >>Seems to me if Jesus wanted to tell his disciples that, he would have just
- >>said that. But he specifically mentions hating parents without talking
- >>about *why*. He says, if you don't hate you parents (no reason specified)
- >>then you cannot be my follower.
- >
- >>In other scripture he specifcally talks about coming here to cause
- >>derision among families, to pit father against son, and mother against
- >>daughter.
- >
- >These two verses both tell the same story. Loving Christ and following Him
- >will cause the break-up of families, differences between people and all
- >sorts of other problems.
-
- No, no. Jesus explictely claims to have come here *to cause* families to
- break-up. He doesn't say, "Because of your love for me you may need to
- turn away from your families." He says he came here to pit father against
- son, etc...
-
- >Basically, the Love you show for God must be so great and total, that the
- >love you show to others seems like hate by comparrison.
-
- Uh Steve, aren't you commanded to love your enemies?
-
- >>Yours is a somewhat liberal interpretation of his *exact* words.
- >
- >You're not the first to tell me that...;-) But then again, most of my
- >fundamentalist friends flame me more than atheists do...
-
- Well, you are more well reasoned than most I've dealt with here on the
- net. We just may have to agree to disagree.
-
- Gordon
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