I believe that ALL who ever lived will be in God’s Kingdom

JulieB67 said:

It just means we should love everyone less than Christ and that is the truth.

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Oh, no it doesn't. Luke 14:26 says HATE.

God HATES evil and God HATES the devil. And we should all be thankful for that.

I don't have to twist GOD'S HATE of these into "love less." That's just another lie that people get sold to "let them off the hook"

God does hate evil and does hate the devil, and we should, likewise. Wouldn't you agree?

JulieB67 said:

This verse can go hand in hand with him telling us to pick up the cross "daily" and deny ourselves.

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It's the same theme kid.

We ALL engage our adversary INTERNALLY. We ALL have evil present withIN us and that is courtesy of our adversary.

You repeatedly continue to miss the obvious and will in fact continue to do so for failure to acknowledge the facts.

And in fact that reaction is fully expected and anticipated in scripture, by scripture.

Scripture is actually designed to EMPOWER the resistor until we SEE THE OBVIOUS PROBLEM. And even then the problem doesn't go away. It actually gets worse because now you know it's real and can't be undone.

JulieB67 said:

The next group- So once again, these verses do not apply to "everyone" This next verse has applied to many of us, I'm sure.

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Again, that is only the adversary in you ignoring the facts of Jesus' Own Words:

Man shall live by EVERY Word of God. Not just the Words we happen to like better:

Matt. 4:4, Luke 4:4, Deut. 8:3

When you come to the table with the adversary in hand, then maybe you'll see better. In the MEANtime I know who I am engaging and it ain't YOU.

The earliest Christians were called 'haters of man' for a reason. They abhorred our self-centered nature.