[Pastor Isaac Peters]

Originally Posted by TheWretch

So it's bad I love my parents?

The Word of God is the Word of God, and it says what it says.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by TheWretch

So it's bad I love my parents?

True Christians hate their parents. It's right there at the top of the list. I'll highlight it for you:

Source: JESUS
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.

LOOK UP .. CONTEXT

Now people say "Oh, that is a special, magic sort of hatred understood in a special way by Jesus’ special friends" but this can not be so.

This is a foundational requirement for discipleship. And in the context link Jesus even illustrates what He meant using exactly that example. Foundations. The foundation of faith.

Jesus was not speaking to any sort of "inner circle" here. He was addressing a great multitude. The words He used were words they would all understand. You say you "love your parents" and so you need to explain "what Jesus really meant" by what He said. I don't do that. Jesus’ words mean just what they say and anyone can understand them.

Rejecting His teaching results in everlasting torture. And deservedly so. Jesus is God; His words are joyous and pure. Are you suggesting otherwise?

PURITY

PROVERBS 30
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell?
5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
KJV .. look up

JOY

JEREMIAH 15
16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
KJV .. look up

There is a type of false joy I suppose, obsessing over family members or pets or freaking out at some dubstep orgy. But it is not REAL joy. And it is certainly not pure. We know that because Jesus has told us. If what the world offers as "joy" or "purity" were sufficient for Salvation there would be no point in His explaining The Truth, would there. But He has explained and that is how we know. And that is why we are His disciples.

[Philly]

I got a tattoo when I turned 18 ,bad decision, can I still be a true Christian?

[handmaiden]

Originally Posted by Philly

I got a tattoo when I turned 18 ,bad decision, can I still be a true Christian?

You can get the tattoo burned off, I suppose. But only by bathing in the Perfect Sacrificial Blood of The Lord Jesus Christ, and then spending the rest of your life obeying every command in God's Perfect, Eternal and Unerring Holy Word, The Bible, can you hope to become a True Christian™.


If that seems like too much work, then keep the tattoo and burn in hell forever, your call.




Non-investedly Yours,
Handmaiden

[BrotherLarry]

It is not difficult at all for me to hate my parents, since they are ring kissing papists who embarrass me by going to Rome and believing that a bunch of beads are going to automatically be blessed by sharing the same air space as Ms. Frances, the Pope. If that's not a reason to hate someone, what is?


However, I can empathize with those persons whose parents are loving, kind, good, and are True Christians™. It has to be difficult. I have no doubt whatsoever, though, that those with this problem would only have to ask their parents if they also hated THEIR parents, and with the answer, "Oh, of course!" a sense of peace would take over and it would be nothing but hatred from that point forward.


I just love our Lord for making the Christian life so simple and it only takes a little twist and turn to have it all make sense. This is the reason why our God is the only true God. When things are too easy, we tend to not value them. This is but one more way He has us work for our Salvation®. (Philippians 2:12-13) GLORY!