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Let's face it, when it comes to deities, Jesus is one of the more needy. Anyone who tries to distill our Christian faith soon stumbles upon the unsettling realization that it is all about Him. If you start loving someone else, within a fortnight Jesus will start to feel neglected. He will then begin stalking you in prayer or on multiple screens in cheesy Mel Gibson snuff films until He has run off any rival for His affections. It is with this somewhat dysfunctional behavior in mind that one must never take this "sanctity" of marriage malarkey too seriously. Fortunately, few Americans do!
But one can't fault Jesus in His rather obsessive need to be the center of attention. He is very up front in saying: "If any man come to me, and hate not [his] wife and children . . . he cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:26 Some have argued that Jesus just wanted people to hate their family "compared to their love of Jesus." Such ignorant people need to crack the spine on their Bible before God cracks their spines in Hell. Jesus did not talk about relative relative animosity, but absolute discord. He said "For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law." Matthew 10:34 Notice, being a good Jewish boy and cognizant of Mary always lurking nearby, He did not say anything about turning a son against his mother.
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