Christians,can you explain why Christ reversed the 5th commandment to honour your mother & father to you must hate your mother & farther?

Luke 14:26 KJV If any G1536 man come G2064 to G4314 me, G3165 and G2532 hate G3404 not G3756 his G1438 father, G3962 and G2532 mother, G3384 and G2532 wife, G1135 and G2532 children, G5043 and G2532 brethren, G80 and G2532 sisters, G79 yea, G2089 and G1161 his own G1438 life G5590 also, G2532 he cannot G3756 G1410 be G1511 my G3450 disciple. G3101

The word translated into the English word "hate" in that verse is "miseo" in the Greek and word # G3404 in The Greek Dictionary of The Strong's Concordance http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=gre...

There are several meanings listed. When there are several meanings, a translator needs to study all of God's Word to determine what meaning is cohesive and makes sense with the entire text. Some people will, purposely, try to take a meaning that will make God's Word not make sense if that is their intention. Each person has to decide for themselves and is accountable to God, not me. The British who translated the original languages into English for the KJV, used the word “hate” to mean indifference, not ‘hate’ how we think of it today as being so much more of an active emotion. The British would think it means no active emotion, more of a clinical detachment which is how doctors view a patient in order to help them. So, I present the case for consideration as to why this word makes more sense to be translated as "love less" instead of "hate" since both are listed in the Dictionary definition of the Greek word.

There are times where a person's love for another blinds them to what is best for that other person. A modern day example might be a loved one who is suffering from addiction and it seems to be 'loving' to keep giving them money that fuels their destruction and to not argue that you care that they are killing themselves, both those actions are in fact destroying that loved one and are called 'enabling'. Sometimes, a person must be willing to sacrifice the 'love' of someone they love, in order to really help them. They risk losing that person because they might make that person so angry, and the other person may feel like it is hateful towards them, but when a person is truly motivated by love for the other, that risk is worth it.

A Biblical example was when satan was able to use Peter's love for Jesus to try to think that he could or would interfere with God's plan. Peter's love compelled him to want to protect the Man Jesus, (Who does not need our protection, by straying from God's Word), while straying from God's ultimate stated plan for Jesus Christ and for Peter. Matthew 16:21-24 KJV

http://www.biblestudytools.com/kjv/passage.aspx?q=...

You can't write English so no wonder Hebrew makes you pure jelly.....

http://www.biblicalhebrew.com/nt/lovehate.htm

============

Biblical Hebrew lacks the necessary language to exactly define the comparative sense, i.e., 'more than' or 'less than'. Instead it tends to express two things which may be comparatively of different degree like 'first' and 'second' as extremes such as 'first' and 'last'. In this way love and hate whilst appearing as opposites may in fact be related but lesser terms such as 'love more' and 'love less'.

"If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his." (Deuteronomy 21:15-17)

============

BTW

Even if one were to take this 'hating' verse literally, a semantic twist would have you back where you started. For, Jesus tells us that our enemies will be the members of our own family, yet we are also taught, "love your enemies"! (Matthew 5:44; Luke 6:27,35)

The writer is trying to get across the idea that if you want to have a priority in your life, you cannot say you have that priority, and then just stop when a problem comes up and say, "Gotta go, sorry. I have to deal with this other thing, then maybe I'll come back when it's convenient."

The Brits would say, "In for a penny, in for a pound."

Remember, when Skywalker is trying to get his ship out of the muck, the Yoda is teaching Luke how to do it, and Luke whines, "I'll try," then Yoda says no.

"Either do or do not! There is no 'try'."

The believer has to be serious, and can't allow other things to be a distraction.

Of course, we read that stuff and think it's supposed to be literal, and of course that's not so.

It's about putting God first, your allegiance proves your love, by default if you do not love you hate. If your mother or father tell you to do something that God tells you not to do and you obey them over God, you demonstrate you love for your parents and your hate for God. If you listen to God over your parents you demonstrate you love for God and by default your hate for your parents.

It is not reversing the commandment but expanding upon commandment, it was always this way. Just like "But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart." does not change # 7 You shall not commit adultery. It was always that way, the teaching was only expanded upon and further clarified.

That is not the reverse.

Logically, it is possible to honor your mother and father and hate your mother and father at the same time.

He didn't command anything of the sort in that passage, he just made it clear that whoever believed in Him became part of His family, that it wasn't limited to his family in Nazareth

You misunderstand the intent. Nothing changes if you are happy where you are. To improve, you have to be dissatisfied with what you have. You have to want to do better than your parents. What parent would not want their kids to do better than they did. It goes further than that. It concerns life itself. Who is happy with relatives and friends dying from cancer? On and on and on. Things never improve unless you do not like how things are!

It's saying that you must not hate your family members or yourself

Unfortunately no one got the answer right-Jesus was pointing out that attached love can lead to corruption.

Because lots of people have abusive parents who are one big hindrance