Quiz: The God-Man Jesus Christ

This test is a study guide that can only provide some preliminary information for a personal encounter with Christ. The purpose of human life is not just to learn about Christ, but to know Christ, to get to know Him, and to fellowship with Him.

• 1. The Gospel of Luke (14:26): "Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them, (Luke.14:25). 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. (Luke.14:26) ...'." What is the right way to understand these words of Christ?
  1 The way to God at the highest levels passes through the rejection of one's neighbours
  2 Family ties make God's fellowship impossible
  3 Only neighbours who do not believe in Christ must be rejected
  4 The word "hate" had a different meaning in the original
  
  Correct answer: №4
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  Comment:

  Here, as in many other instances in the Bible, because of the peculiarities of Semitic languages (lack of degrees of comparison), the verb "to hate" has the comparative meaning of "to love less."

  The word "hate" can mean different things in different contexts. In this context, according to most interpreters of Scripture, the words "whoever does not hate..." should have been translated differently: "whoever does not prefer God to father, mother..."

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