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commandment is to love our neighbor as our
self. In Luke chapter 14, verse 26, Jesus said,
“If any man come to me, and hate not his
father, and mother, and wife, and children, and
brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also,
he cannot be my disciple.” Somebody will say,
"See, the Bible is going astray again. We are
told to hate." Well, this word "hate" here
means to love less. That's exactly what it
means here. It's not used in the way we use the
word hate many times today. Genesis 29:30
and 31 illustrates that. We find in verse 30 that
Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, and in the
next verse God says it seemed that Leah was
hated. So it just means that Jacob loved one
more than he did the other.
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