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To: Talisker

Just to be clear, do you mean this?:

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And second is like it: iYou shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 jOn these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

So one doesn’t even have to believe in Christ at all according to you to get to heaven since he’s not mentioned at all in these commandments.

I suggest some more studying of context.


92 posted on 03/25/2015 6:34:42 PM PDT by bramps (Go West America!)
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To: bramps
So one doesn’t even have to believe in Christ at all according to you to get to heaven since he’s not mentioned at all in these commandments.

Good Lord, did you forget He's the one GIVING the command?! Or do you think He's not? Or, perhaps, do you think He was kidding when He said that these were His "greatest" commandments? Perhaps He didn't really mean that - perhaps you don't have to hold these commandments superior to ALL His other teachings? And interpret ALL His other teachings in SUPPORT of these?

I suggest some more studying of context.

Context? I suggest you look up the words "command." It's on the other side of the dictionary from the word "optional." THAT is your "context." Jesus called it His "greatest" comandment precisely BECAUSE He was giving everyone context. Yet what do people do? They invoke "context" to DENY this COMMAND of context, in order to use other teachings to DE-contextualize the Greatest Commandment as somehow NOT the greatest.

That's not Biblical scholoarship - that's hypocrisy. And it's also why EACH HALF of Christianity tells the OTHER half of Christianity it's going to hell.

We all bet our lives with how we live them. Believe what you want. But personally, I don't want to die and meet Jesus and have Him look at me and ask, "what, exactly, was the part of my "greatest" commandment that you didn't GET?".

94 posted on 03/25/2015 7:06:15 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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