Not only am I not offended, I totally agree. Jesus gave us but 2 commandments;
Love the Lord your god and your neighbor as yourself.
[h=3]The Greatest Commandment[/h][SUP]34 [/SUP]Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. [SUP]35 [/SUP]One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: [SUP]36 [/SUP]“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
[SUP]37 [/SUP]Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[SUP][
c][/SUP] [SUP]38 [/SUP]This is the first and greatest commandment. [SUP]39 [/SUP]And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[SUP][
d][/SUP] [SUP]40 [/SUP]All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Both Jesus and Paul knew that rules and requirements were just to get you seriously engaged with the need for grace and mercy; they were never an end in themselves.
The New Testaments is not a book of commandments they are examples and guides...
Love fulfils ALL THE LAW period. It is people trying to create rules and regulations
Christ came to free us from all those rules..so now everyone wants to pile on hundreds more..
This is missing the point of Jesus dying on the cross.