Obligations? No....If it is an obligation it is not love...
Joh 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
And God will condemn us if we fail???
Joh 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
We all fail, daily...Are you condemned??? When we fall down and drop that cross, Jesus is there to pick us back on, put the cross back on our shoulder and we start again...There is no condemnation for Christians...
And again, we are under no obligation to follow any of the 10 Commandments...All they are is a poster for us to see what they are...
When we are following God's will to love our neighbor, it's good to know we have something to show us we are on the right track...
Gal_3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
Gal_3:25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
I don't need a Church to tell me this stuff, or what it means...God made sure that he wrote it in simple language that I (or anyone) could understand...
Um....I have obligations to my family. Moral and material. I fulfill those obligations out of love.
It's the same with Christ.
Obligations and love are not incompatible. Dahell you talking about?
We all fail, daily...Are you condemned??? When we fall down and drop that cross, Jesus is there to pick us back on, put the cross back on our shoulder and we start again...There is no condemnation for Christians...
Providing we repent and ask forgiveness. If we persist in our sins and we die in that state, hell awaits.
And again, we are under no obligation to follow any of the 10 Commandments...All they are is a poster for us to see what they are...
If we're under no obligation, then by definition, they're not Commandments.