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Verses like these disqualify multitudes of

professing Christians from becoming

disciples of Christ, and these kinds of verses

ought to cause every professing Christian to

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the

faith; prove your own selves . . .”

But what does Jesus mean when He says

that we should “hate” our father, mother,

wife, children, brothers and sisters in order to

be His disciple? Surely He didn’t mean that

we should abhor them or feel malice toward

them, because that would conflict with many

other passages of Scripture. One possible

explanation is that our love for Christ should

so outweigh our love for family that it will

appear hateful and unloving toward family

when we choose loyalty to Christ at the

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