“Don’t be silly. Our love for Christ should so overshadow the love we have for our parents that we in contrast we appear to hate our parents.
Just sayin’.”
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Now hang on there partner...
How do you distinguish between the HATE of the Esau verse and Jesus’ instruction to HATE our parents?????
One, you say is literal. The other comparative.
How do you make that distinction???
Because if we insist on literally hating our parents, and yet we are told to honor them, we have fractured Scripture.
No such fracture exists with God hating x number of people.