Hate Your Mom and Dad!

[deadeye]

Originally Posted by Socialite

But amazingly, many Pastors are taking this text and adding:

"Since you have a new family in Jesus, divorce from your old family, reject them (especially those who have left the truth) and wash your hands of them." Appalling. Shocking.

Odd...in all my years of preaching...listening to preaching, and running in mainly conservative UPC and Independent circles....i have NEVER heard that preached...

I have heard it preached that you must put God before everything else....I preach that...but nothing like what you say here.

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by deadeye

Odd...in all my years of preaching...listening to preaching, and running in mainly conservative UPC and Independent circles....i have NEVER heard that preached...

I have heard it preached that you must put God before everything else....I preach that...but nothing like what you say here.

Oh, I've heard it as well.

And concerning the second sentence, the way it is usually preached, you do put God first and since church attendance, submitting to authority (or in the case of a woman, subbbbb-MITTTing <spit>), tithe paying, and nearly everything else preached was pleasing to God than it ALL came before family.

[rgcraig]

How do they handle the commandment - - Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Guess, that has a subscript to it - - (only if they stay in the right faith).

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

How do they handle the commandment - - Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Guess, that has a subscript to it - - (only if they stay in the right faith).

The pharisees got around it!

Matthew 15:4-6 (King James Version)

4For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

5But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;

6And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

[Falla39]

My late Dad and Mom were the "schoolmaster" that brought me to Christ. They did their
part in "training me up in the way I should go". They are gone, and I am now older, and
I have not departed from "the way I should go"!

Falla39