Luke (Program #31) – The Ministry of the Man-Savior in His Human Virtues with His Divine Attributes from Galilee to Jerusalem (10)
As Christians, we are instructed by Scripture to do many things. Of course among them to love our wives as ourselves, to honor our mother and father and to be careful how we treat our own bodies because they are a Holy Temple of the Holy Spirit. But then we run into a section of the Bible such as found in Luke 14 where the Lord Jesus says “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and moreover, even his own soul-life, he cannot be My disciple.” Well, does the Bible in fact as alleged by many unbelievers contradicts itself? Of course we know better. But what does it mean for us to “hate” such cherished one, even to hate ourselves as the Bible intends?
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