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"If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?"
-- 1 John 4:20 (King James Version)
I fucking hate the King James version so much. I grew up with NRSE and it's like "why are you still using this archaic shit?"
Here's the same passage in language normal people can understand:
Generational thing, maybe? Plus conservative churches love holding onto archaic customs, like the old KJV translation.
Honestly doesn't make sense to me either way.
Of course I can love something I can't see over something I can see. The reason I hate them is because I can see them.
That's not the point he was trying to make. :)
It's hard to make sense of it now, let alone two thousand years ago.
Here goes nothing:
God is in everything, so you cannot love God without loving each and every part of Him. It's easy to love something you don't experience in your everyday life -- the true challenge is to love that which you do experience, like your "brothers" and "sisters". If you have hate in yourself at all, you do not completely love God.
Makes sense now?
There are more edits to the new testament than there are letters. I just cannot consider any sense of any canonic status to entire set of make-shit-up books.
If it's anything I guarentee it isn't a prediction. It's a fucking plan.