Describing in nothing more than contradiction someone as loving but who detests people and intends to set familes against themselves is hardly anything close to being reasonable. To say you would put devotion to that as a concept or a reality infront of your children, is frankly quite scary.
Ok....You, like most others, miss the point....Jesus spoke so people could understand....so when he says the mustard seed is the smallest of seeds yet grows into the largest of trees.....are you going to run to google and see what are the largest and smallest?.....or is the importance of the message the thing you should be taking in. Regarding Family against family....again, Look at the christian faiths...many are not united...just look at the south where there are some many denominations and churches on every street corner.
So far you have said noting which adresses my post. Do you wish me to talk in parables or perhaps riddles might be more appropriate, like jesus , so YOU may be able to understand - sounding hateful is not the same thing as talking of love . So what sort of faith is it that professes a jesus love, but as you acknowledge in fact does nothing to spread love, rather it's jesus love that is intended to set families against each other. Just what purpose is there in holding such a nonsensical contradiction as a form of faith? You still have not answered if you would put your invisible friend before your own children ?
I know....my career should be 1st.....BTW....Just because those are the priorities doesn't mean I don't screw it up...its called being human....like when i decide to go have a few drinks with the boys and watch the football game instead of doing something with the family....or when i skip church to go tailgate at a game on sunday morning.
well thanks at least for clearing things up. You have expressed you religious faith as being something which is not just or reasonable, is contradictory and you expect to screw it up anyway. A bit like fading a trade.
Well Stu, i'll assume your married and have kids.....Now do you love your wife more than your kids as you vowed when you were married????? or would you choose your kids over your wife if the decision had to be made? ...Also, you love your wife for better or worse....but you find yourself at "scores"....does this mean you don't love your wife or that you are human and have weaknesses?
Well seeing on how you have asked... I feel myself fortunate that I can define the love I have for my wife and the love I have for my kids. They are not the same. There is no "choose", no choice involved - were I have to declare a love for my wife over my children or vice-versa. They are both the most love I have ever experienced, different loves as they are. My love for my family does not set us at scores against each other. Other emotions may do that. I do not offer my love to my wife and children on any condition whatsoever and do not bring love on the edge of a sword as jesus is supposed to have done. Nor does my love bring my daughter against her mother, nor does my love make enemies of the members of my or anyone else's household. I would never ask anyone let alone my family to love me more than each other, nor ever declare that they would not be worthy of my love if they did so, as jesus would have folks believe. I could never in all conscience put anything above the love I feel for my family. Least of all a fantasy figure like God . I find your views above contorted and misshaped from trying to reconcile what you have described as your faith against the love you must surely have for your family Apart from that, tailgating a game is actually a sin .You always gotta be as near to the damn ball as you can get.
Your kind of avoiding the question.....do you love your wife mroe than your kids? And if need be, would you choose her over them? BTW....You still don't understand what jesus was talking about when he was referring to daughter against mother....he's not talking about a traditional family...