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.
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?