Such
objections, as the one posed above, are easily answered. The Bible often
compares two things in such way as to produce a contradiction for the sake of
emphasis. For example, Christ said: “If any man come to me, and hate not his father
and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own
life also, he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14:26). Would the higher critics tell us that Jesus is here advocating
the breaking of the law of God by commanding hate instead of love, or would
they say because a seemingly opposite command of Christ is recorded in the same
Gospel (Luke 18:20),
that these two chapters in Luke must have been derived from two different documents
written many years apart? It should be apparent to even a child that Jesus is
not advocating the hating of parents but is simply showing by way of contrast
how much more important love for God is than love for even our dearest relations.
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