Most Bibles actually say that if we do not HATE our families (Luke 14:26) we cannot be disciples.
The GW says: 26 "If people come to me and are not ready to abandon their fathers, mothers, wives, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as their own lives, they cannot be my disciples.
THAT is the way I want the Bible to communicate with me.......... Instead of me having to hunt all over the place to figure out why I am being told to HATE all my family....... when the verse never meant that in the first place.
The GW says: 26 "If people come to me and are not ready to abandon their fathers, mothers, wives, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as their own lives, they cannot be my disciples.
THAT is the way I want the Bible to communicate with me.......... Instead of me having to hunt all over the place to figure out why I am being told to HATE all my family....... when the verse never meant that in the first place.