The Verse That Sounds Like Jesus Contradicts Himself | Difficult Passages #13

Did Jesus really tell us to hate our parents? In Luke 14:26, Jesus says, "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple." This seems to directly contradict the Fifth Commandment to honor your father and mother and Jesus's own teaching to love even your enemies. So what's actually going on here? In this conversation, Sean unpacks one of the most jarring passages in the Gospels with Eric, exploring what Jesus really meant when He used the language of "hate" and why this teaching was even more radical to His original audience than it sounds to ours. CHECK OUT: Dr. Erik Thoennes (https://www.biola.edu/directory/people/erik-thoennes) *Get a MASTERS IN APOLOGETICS or SCIENCE AND RELIGION at BIOLA (https://bit.ly/3LdNqKf) *USE Discount Code [smdcertdisc] for 25% off the BIOLA APOLOGETICS CERTIFICATE program (https://bit.ly/3AzfPFM) *See our fully online UNDERGRAD DEGREE in Bible, Theology, and Apologetics: (https://bit.ly/448STKK) FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://x.com/Sean_McDowell TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sean_mcdowell?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmcdowell/ Website: https://seanmcdowell.org