New Pope... J.D. Vance is wrong!

SlaveForChrist said:
Bro starting right out the gate lying. Good start there, Pope.

“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.”
Matthew 10:37
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That is not ranking, are you dumb?
 
SlaveForChrist said:
Bro starting right out the gate lying. Good start there, Pope.

“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.”
Matthew 10:37
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Dude, the lie is from JD not Jarod.

Google is your friend: https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/g...rong-jesus-doesnt-ask-us-rank-our-love-others

JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn't ask us to rank our love for others​

The internet has been buzzing since Vice President JD Vance said during a Fox News interview on Jan. 29, "There is a Christian concept that you love your family and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens, and then after that, prioritize the rest of the world. A lot of the far left has completely inverted that."

The online debate has been split on whether this sentiment is biblical or not. Many Christians have rushed to defend this hierarchy, citing 1 Timothy 5:8: "Anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household, has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever."

There's no doubt that Scripture speaks to our responsibility for family and community. But when it comes to something being "biblical," we have to be careful. Nearly anything can be found in Scripture if you're looking for it — stories of war, oppression, miracles and love, all written by people grappling with what it meant to be faithful. The Bible is not a rigid manual but a living testimony of human wrestlings with the divine...

....No, I won't deny the complexities of immigration. But framing love as something calculated and conditional misses the heart of it entirely. Of course, we do not neglect our families. Of course, we invest in our local communities. In fact, this is how we enact the deepest change — by voting, by fighting, by pushing back against systems in place that refuse to protect the most vulnerable among us.

But love cannot stop there. The love Jesus speaks of is not about calculation or a choice between our families or neighbors. It is not a finite resource to ration out, but a river that flows, wild and without restraint. The empire's vision of love is built on scarcity, but the kingdom of God is built on abundance.

If we find ourselves asking, "Who is my neighbor?" — we are already missing the point. The better question is: How do I love without limits?
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"A single passage of Scripture affirms, in principle, the propriety of Vance’s observation. In Matthew 22, Jesus was asked, “Which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He answered in terms of precisely the concentric hierarchy that Vance articulated: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and the first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets” (Mt 22:37-40). This is the foundation for the ordo amoris or “order of love,” and Vance’s observation fits comfortably within it." https://www.oursundayvisitor.com/jd...unremarkably-correct-about-the-order-of-love/
 
SlaveForChrist said:
“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.”
Matthew 10:37
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When I read stuff like that in the Bible it is so jarring because it reads almost exactly like a cult leader speaking in this particular verse.

The Bible and especially the Gospels, contains so much GOOD stuff that it is hard to see things like this that sort of stick out like a sore thumb marring the otherwise beautiful message of peace, love and understanding.

But then this does come just after Matthew 10:34. Which is made even MORE confusing by the later Matthew 26:52.
 
SlaveForChrist said:
Bro starting right out the gate lying. Good start there, Pope.

“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.”
Matthew 10:37
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Jesus is speaking to the 12 disciples in Chapter 10 and giving them instructions.
What Jesus expects of the 12 disciples exceeds of what can be expected any garden variety Christian layperson. Disciples were expected to heal people, cure the lepers, live in abject poverty, be prepared to be flogged and abused, and to put their relationship with Jesus above all others, including their own lives.
 
SlaveForChrist said:
Bro starting right out the gate lying. Good start there, Pope.

“If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine.”
Matthew 10:37
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Guess I’m not worthy. Oh well.
 
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