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Originally Posted by livingbygrace
Jesus replied
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest coimmandment and the decond is like it. Love your neighhbour as yourself. Matt22:37
Those two commandments you mentioned were God's commandments according to the scripture you quoted, not Jesus
And this is his commandment. That we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another. 1John3:23
I was refering to the two commandments Christ gave to those who are his followers, (those who are Christians already) therefore they wouldn't need to be told to believe in him. I apologise for not making this plainer
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I understood what you were saying, and I knew about the place where Jesus said these things.
What I was making reference to was the new commandments, which are ours as those who follow Jesus. Loving God is not like believing in the One whom He sent, and loving your neighbor as yourself is not like Jesus' new commandment that we love one another even as He has loved us.
Jesus was answering a member of the house of Israel about the commandments which God gave to them. And even when Paul mentions this commandment, he states that all of the Law is contained in this commandment to love your neighbor as yourself.
But here is the key, if you will allow. If I love my neighbor as myself, it is with my love. If I love you even as Jesus has loved me, it is with God's love. The new commandment which we have from Jesus.
and so,
In His love,
vic