JESUS STRONGLY DENOUNCES THE FAMILY STANDARD
The family standard causes a high degree of partiality / favoritism, lessening love between others. Right or wrong, people will usually always side with a family member who’s having a dispute with someone outside their family.
What’s difficult to understand is that God / Jesus can be against marriage, but not be against people having sex. But, if God / Jesus was also against sex, and everyone did what God / Jesus wanted, then Mankind would cease to exist, as no one would (1) have sex, or (2) get married to have the sex.
God / Jesus didn’t place any value or respect for “the family standard”; in fact, the total opposite:
Luke 14:25-26 (NKJV):
25And great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them, 26“If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.”
“Father,” “mother,” “wife,” “children,” “brothers” and “sisters” are maybe a few examples of “family.” “Hate” is a “strong” drastic word, but the Word of God needs to be emphasized on this very important Goldenrule subject!
Also, “hate” one’s own life expresses a drastic need to know exactly who the “Devil” is: It’s everyone’s excessive selfishness, which is the root cause of all religious / ethics based problems. And an open / free love / sex society will lessen excessive selfishness immensely. No, it’s not the same as being a rich guy who goes to lots of hookers. Once everyone is involved, you’ll see what I mean. For example, there’s a big difference between having sex with someone who also enjoys it, rather than a prostitute who really doesn’t enjoy it.
I bet Focus on the Family never uses this passage for a family support example. They need to keep a smart distance from the real Jesus.
Mark 3:31-35 (basically same in Matthew 13:46-50):
31Then His brothers and His mother came, and standing outside they sent to Him, calling Him. 32And a multitude was sitting around Him; and they said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are outside seeking You.” 33But He answered them, saying, “Who is My mother, or My brothers?” 34And He looked around in a circle at those who sat about Him, and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! 35For whoever does the will of God (being good to others) is My brother and My sister and mother.”
Thanks God, “I” need the support. Jesus definitely could practice what He preached.
http://4forums.com/political/showpost.php?p=58588&postcount=85, View Single Post:
“Jesus renounced his family, declaring that he had no relatives except the faithful (Mark 3:31-35). Jerome interpreted this as a mandate to destroy marriage and the family. … He said every man who loves his wife passionately was guilty of adultery. … There was no Christian sacrament of marriage until the 16th century. Catholic scholars say the wedding ceremony was ‘imposed on’ a reluctant church, and ‘nothing is more remarkable than the tardiness with which liturgical forms for the marriage ceremony were evolved.’”
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=passion&r=67 (Dictionary.com), “passion”:
A powerful emotion … Ardent love … Strong sexual desire; lust. … Boundless enthusiasm: His skills as a player don't quite match his passion for the game. … Synonyms: passion, fervor, fire, zeal, ardor: These nouns denote powerful, intense emotion. Passion is a deep, overwhelming emotion: “There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy” (Richard Brinsley Sheridan). … strong feeling or emotion … something that is desired intensely … object of warm affection or devotion; "the theater was her first love"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=ardent&r=67 (Dictionary.com), “Ardent”:
Displaying or characterized by strong enthusiasm or devotion; fervent
By today’s standards, two people who have all this strong desire for one another, is considered a very good, normal and stable marriage. But, that is what God / Jesus instructs us to avoid; again, to diminish favoritism; and, to cause others (outside of your family) to become “tanglibly” valuable (sexually desirous). In fact, these definitions describe the true definition of “lust”: “strong / intense desire.” All this desire would be smoothed out in an open-sex society, lessening “lust” and building more Goldenrule love and concern for others.
I fully know that you’ve all be taught otherwise. I guess your strong trust needs to be counteracted by strong words like “hate.”
Matthew 10:35-37:
34“Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. 35 “For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; 36and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ 37He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.”
Wow! The Prince of Peace is now getting even more drastically determined with “a sword”; solely directed to break up the family standard / bias. Huh. And, my commentary telling how its strong emphasis is needed to show His definite disapproval of the family standard, can be the only thing that explains it. You see, if He didn’t force the intensity, there’d be those who could easily spin it away from His real intent. Now, anything other than my commentary wouldn’t really make any sense. I sure do need this kind of support from the key leading character in of the Bible.
If Jesus did support the family standard (hypothetically), then He would have known better to not state the above, as He is the true voice of God. That is, He could have used a better example to get people to follow God. Unless, of course, God sees a great need to spread the love.
The above doesn’t sound anything like today’s family standard to me; but, it is Jesus talking. You see, favoritism must be broken for it to be a better world. “Me” (above) is the Goldenrule, because the Goldenrule was Jesus’ primary instruction for us all to follow.
There are two other areas of the Gospels that have such extreme emphasis: The main one is Matthew 25:31-46 where He emphasizes that the Goldenrule is the only way for Salvation, and particularly in verses 41-46 where He says that anything else is a cop-out, with the most extreme warning of “everlasting punishment.” You see, many, many cop-outs are used so much today by just about everyone to justify their wrongs, and is so much the cause of the many problems in this world, that it needs to be emphasized in great harshness. To spell it out, you can have all the artificial salvation cop-outs that Billy Graham can dish out, but it’s all irrelevant, because if you don’t have the kind of Goldenrule love for your fellow man the way Jesus describes by examples in verses 41-46, then you’re going to “everlasting punishment.” I need something very, very strong from God to end all the cop-outs that’s out there. And this is apparently the only way to do it. The biggest cop-out in the news today is the Israel situation where everyone thinks living by a museum can circumvent having to do God’s command of the Goldenrule. This is something even the President said could lead to World War Three! Matthew 5:28 where Jesus says “But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in her heart,” then says that it’s better to pluck out your eyes than to lust. Pretty drastic, eh? Well, the Pope can say “yes” to open-sex; but, if there’s still “looks discrimination” it isn’t going to work. So, my telling of the desperate need to create a fad for diversity in looks, is a must for a utopian future for mankind. To spell it out, what are guys thinking when an “attractive” female is walking down the street? And, what are guys thinking when an “unattractive” female is walking down the street? That’s because the long traditional fad is to have your special “one” to be as “attractive” as possible. It is an extremely powerful desire (“lust”), and it needs to be changed, as it causes way too much favoritism for one, and a whole lot less for all others. Desiring someone who looks different every time can break that unfairness. And humans are extremely fad based, as much as birds are when they fly with the leader. Only Cosmopolitan Magazine or a new rock singer could change it; again, once the Pope tells the truth about what Jesus really said about sex, marriage, and the family. It’s “just” sex, not the material possession of a human being, so a fad for desiring diversity in partners can work. Oh, I know happily married men only want affairs with the more attractive women; but that’s just because it’s what impresses one’s inner self, that would impress others, if he was allowed to tell others about it. If impressing others becomes having someone who looks different every time, then that would be your desire. I’m talking where all your classmates brag about it; your favorite rock or country stars say it’s the new thing to do; even your parents aren’t happy unless they’re with someone different each time. Yes, it would be an Apocalyptic event: A whole totally different, totally reversed way of looking at others. And, over the largest church taboo ever (sex outside of marriage). Incredible! It takes a very high I.Q. just to understand what I’m taking about. The biggest hurtle would be somehow realizing how those who we trust the most (the church), could be the most dishonest. And how we could all be so gullible. Most would categorize those two points as “impossible”! But, it’s all here in black and white. It’s still unbelievable, isn’t it?
Matthew 19:29:
And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.
Sounds like it’d be worth it. Also note Jesus’ patriotic snub by His adding the word “lands.” Fighting for one’s country “right or wrong” in war is the “patriotic” thing to do. But, it’s an obvious bias evil.
Gospel of Thomas, 105:
Jesus said, “Whoever knows the father and the mother will be called the child of a whore.”
I’d say that’s breaking up the “bastard” or “love child” taboos / insults / degradations, pretty good.