Great Commandment

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So in giving such Jesus basically said if you follow this one the rest is default. When people are trying to figure out how to be Christian it seems any post of the GC is ignored or subsequent details sought out as if to skip doing the first and master that which should be default alone.

Is the GC that scary? Is it that detestable? Are details and nitpicks worth more than the GC?

Sometimes as Jesus said of the hardness of hearts, I wonder was it still too early and do we not need more tiny technical laws for living rather than the GC?

Why is the GC the most hated?

It confuses me 😦
 
To love God, and neighbors, one must know what love is.

People think love is a feeling.

Therefore they fail.

You forget that right after Jesus said this… The man asked ‘who is my neighbor?’

This elicited the Samaritan parable… Which is actually more a slap in the face than we realize, because the Samaritans and the Jews were worst enemies… It would be like using the Germans or the Japanese as examples during WWII.

You’ll notice that when Jesus asked ‘which is these was neighbor to the sick man?’ The Jew didn’t even say the word ‘Samaritan’ because it probably stuck in his throat to even admit it.
 
SilverShadow22 said:
To love God, and neighbors, one must know what love is.

People think love is a feeling.

Therefore they fail.

You forget that right after Jesus said this… The man asked ‘who is my neighbor?’

This elicited the Samaritan parable… Which is actually more a slap in the face than we realize, because the Samaritans and the Jews were worst enemies… It would be like using the Germans or the Japanese as examples during WWII.

You’ll notice that when Jesus asked ‘which is these was neighbor to the sick man?’ The Jew didn’t even say the word ‘Samaritan’ because it probably stuck in his throat to even admit it.
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Good point, never really thought they asked details and didn’t like it then… but still makes me wonder if collectively “we” were ready for it…
 
LethalMouse said:
Good point, never really thought they asked details and didn’t like it then… but still makes me wonder if collectively “we” were ready for it…
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🤷 Jesus put up with them, and we have to be like him, soooo…
 
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I don’t think Jesus’s true pain was on the cross but in seeing people misguided enough to aprove and know their level of lost 😦
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You could be right…

But only their ignorance saved them from full and total damnation.

That is why, I believe, Jesus answered only when compelled, and only vaguely, during His trial… The more he revealed, the more guilty would have been those who killed him… They wouldn’t have believed or understood, and He knew that from the beginning… So he left them enough ignorance that they could still come to repentance.

Judas knew just enough to kill himself, but not enough to trust God’s mercy. 🤷
 
Loving people can be self sacrificing, scary and makes you vulnerable
 
LethalMouse said:
So in giving such Jesus basically said if you follow this one the rest is default. When people are trying to figure out how to be Christian it seems any post of the GC is ignored or subsequent details sought out as if to skip doing the first and master that which should be default alone.

Is the GC that scary? Is it that detestable? Are details and nitpicks worth more than the GC?

Sometimes as Jesus said of the hardness of hearts, I wonder was it still too early and do we not need more tiny technical laws for living rather than the GC?

Why is the GC the most hated?

It confuses me 😦
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People generally are attracted to pride-to that which strokes the ego. Love actually opposes that. It’s self-sacrificial, gentle, humble, and meek-everything the world detests in many ways. We want super heroes- dragon-slayers- not someone who’d do the opposite, who’d go to the cross without resistance. We don’t understand that.

But love is supreme-and will win hearts in the end, after we’ve exhausted the way of pride and strife and anger-the way of sin. After we’ve tortured and crucified God and we finally look on He who we’ve pierced-and see how wrong we were-and how right He was all along. It takes time to come to recognize the beauty of Love-and be transformed by it. We’re here to spend some time in the pigsty, to find out, hopefully, just how much we need the Father-Who is love.
 
LethalMouse said:
I don’t think Jesus’s true pain was on the cross but in seeing people misguided enough to aprove and know their level of lost 😦
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I’ve said the worst pain was taking the emotional and spiritual brunt of the worlds sins.

We hear stories frequently of someone experiencing what appears to be an unbearable burden (say losing a child), and he took that and every other pain for eternity upon himself. Amazing it didn’t crush him instantly.

I’m not sure that many who claim to be his followers, really understand the work he accomplished there.
 
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People generally are attracted to pride-to that which strokes the ego. Love actually opposes that. It’s self-sacrificial, gentle, humble, and meek-everything the world detests in many ways. We want super heroes- dragon-slayers- not someone who’d do the opposite, who’d go to the cross without resistance. We don’t understand that.

But love is supreme-and will win hearts in the end, after we’ve exhausted the way of pride and strife and anger-the way of sin. After we’ve tortured and crucified God and we finally look on He who we’ve pierced-and see how wrong we were-and how right He was all along. It takes time to come to recognize the beauty of Love-and be transformed by it. We’re here to spend some time in the pigsty, to find out, hopefully, just how much we need the Father-Who is love.
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My point is often that like say St. George we can slay, hero etc and follow the GC. Most importantly you will be better at it with the GC than without.
 
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