If you love your family more than God...

[glowy]

Most Christians I know have this sort of thinking as well. Except the ones that say they are a Christian just because, and they've never opened a bible in their entire lives.

When I was younger, about 7 years old, I asked my mom this question just to see what she would say.

Who do you love more, god or me? "I love you both equally."

I was actually expecting her to say she loves god more/

 

[VIBE]

How can anyone love God more though? When I was a believer I found that too stupid and hard. You have a family, a physical family. Your children whom you hug everyday, who you tuck in, who you cater to. Those kids are your life, you'd kill someone for them rather than kill for God. (at least I would)

Then your wife, the woman you lay with every night. The love is different, unlike any other. The bond is a physical and sexual and mental bond.

Family is stronger than God and I had that thought when I was believer, I could never put my family 2nd. I always found that absurd. God made us with emotion & minds so if that is the case, why say I'm first they're 2nd? He should already know there's no possible way someone could do that. I've never heard some family person say, "I love God more than family", they always say it's equal but then in the same note say you can't love anyone more than God. What the fuck? And there is NO different kind of love for God and family in a separate category.

 

[Israelites]

you have a point, but we all know "scc" say the darnest things, but what the "scc" fail to tell you is how do we love the Lord? We show Him our love by keeping His commandments per the scriptures , which most scc do away with. The Love for the Lord has nothing to do w/emotional love but obedience to His laws, commandments & statutes.

Now we are to Love the Lord more than family when it comes to a family member trying their best to convince you to do something that you know is contrary to what the Most High would want for you, so in rejecting your family member to Keep His commandments you are showing Love to the Lord.

& the book tells us to Love our family, because how can we not love our family & we see them everyday but claim to love the Lord & see Him not?

 

[JudahIsraelite]

you have a point, but we all know "scc" say the darnest things, but what the "scc" fail to tell you is how do we love the Lord? We show Him our love by keeping His commandments per the scriptures , which most scc do away with. The Love for the Lord has nothing to do w/emotional love but obedience to His laws, commandments & statutes.

Now we are to Love the Lord more than family when it comes to a family member trying their best to convince you to do something that you know is contrary to what the Most High would want for you, so in rejecting your family member to Keep His commandments you are showing Love to the Lord.

& the book tells us to Love our family, because how can we not love our family & we see them everyday but claim to love the Lord & see Him not?

great post ahch..keepn it scripted. Why would you love your family more than the Most High who created YOU and everything in existence? The Most High provides and determines all, your family at best is nothing more than emotional comfort

 

[BiblicalAtheist]

Its like being able to look at your loved ones and think, "I'd rather have happiness than have you", how many of us could say this, and how many would actually choose it.

 

[Disciplined InSight]

you have a point, but we all know "scc" say the darnest things, but what the "scc" fail to tell you is how do we love the Lord? We show Him our love by keeping His commandments per the scriptures , which most scc do away with. The Love for the Lord has nothing to do w/emotional love but obedience to His laws, commandments & statutes.
Now we are to Love the Lord more than family when it comes to a family member trying their best to convince you to do something that you know is contrary to what the Most High would want for you, so in rejecting your family member to Keep His commandments you are showing Love to the Lord.
& the book tells us to Love our family, because how can we not love our family & we see them everyday but claim to love the Lord & see Him not?

Co-sign this right here...obedience is the "love"..when it comes to The Most High.

 

[Hyde Parke]

i cant say that i have bared witness to actual true love by observation of another, and if such does exist, how is that measured?

 

[Israelites]

Co-sign this right here...obedience is the "love"..when it comes to The Most High.

Props bro.... those with eyes will see & understand the true meaning of love according to the Most High.

 

[Israelites]

great post ahch..keepn it scripted. Why would you love your family more than the Most High who created YOU and everything in existence? The Most High provides and determines all, your family at best is nothing more than emotional comfort

there's no other way than to keep it scripted bro...

Matthew 12:50 (King James Version)

50For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

 

[KTULU IS BACK]

It's a barbaric and idiotic philosophy that the Bible expresses.

 

[Chike]

It's a barbaric and idiotic philosophy that the Bible expresses.

Taken into the right context, it's not. I mean, would you choose your family and friends over breathing oxygen? If so, you're going to die.