Oliver wrote:
Yet, the authentic Jesus also declared:
1. "If any man come to me, and does not H**E* his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life, he cannot be My disciple." Luke 14:26
2. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and you Pharisees, you hypocrites!" Three times: Matthew 23:13, 14, and 27
3. "Woe unto you Chorazin! woe unto you Bethsaida!...it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you!...And you Capernaum...shall be thrust down to hell!" Luke 10:13-15
4. "...yet I loved Jacob and I H**ED* Esau..." (Malachi 1:2-3, Romans 9:13)
Inherent in the word "love" is discipline for apart from such it no longer becomes love but license. Philippians 3:18-19 states: "For many walk of whom I have often told you even in weeping that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ whose end is destruction..." Any enemy of the cross should be the enemy of every Christian.
Even in Christ's statement, "Love your enemies..." He acknowledged that we would have enemies. But it is these same enemies for which we are to love and to pray.
*The Greek word for "h**e" or "h**ed" is "miseo" which means to detest, to h**e, and by extension to love less. The Hebrew word for "h**ed" is "sane" which means to h**e on a personal level as an enemy or foe who is utterly odious.
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Very interesting. One of the problems I have with liberals is that they honestly believe that if you love someone you do not even tell them what they are doing is wrong. So trying to help them do the right thing is automatically "h**eful"