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?".
Good Lord, did you forget He’s the one GIVING the command?!
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Jesus was asked, “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law”? NOT, “What is YOUR greatest command”?
Very simple question. Do you think THE MAN that asked Jesus what was the greatest commandment THOUGHT that Jesus was referring to himself as ‘the Lord your God’, when Jesus gave this reply:
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
And if the answer is ‘no’, then we’re back to my original comment:
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.