{"id":3034,"date":"2015-09-27T10:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=3034"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:56:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:56:09","slug":"why-did-jesus-teach-so-little-about-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2015\/09\/27\/why-did-jesus-teach-so-little-about-the-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Jesus teach so little about the family?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I was contemplating Jesus\u2019s view on families, and I realized that Jesus actually seemed to have said very little about families. He certainly didn\u2019t seem to share the same rhetoric so common in the LDS church today regarding strengthening and protecting the family.<\/p>\n

Consider Luke 14:26, for example:<\/p>\n

If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or Matt. 10:36\u201337:<\/p>\n

And a man\u2019s foes shall be they of his own household.\u00a0He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or Mark 3:31\u201335:<\/p>\n

There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.\u00a0And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.\u00a0And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?\u00a0And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!\u00a0For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if it\u2019s at all significant that we have so few teachings from Jesus on the family, and that those we do have are seemingly dismissive of the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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