Most of you guys would not support a bill in Congress to make the Ten Commandments law. At least that's how the vote has gone, so far. (See http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com...ad.php?t=24134) But how about Jesus' famous Top Two?
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Would these make good laws?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
If you love God, you'll keep His commandments. A love for God should be the motivation for obedience. Not fear of reprisal, fines, imprisonment or worse.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
If you love God, you'll keep His commandments. A love for God should be the motivation for obedience. Not fear of reprisal, fines, imprisonment or worse.
If you love God, you'll keep His commandments. A love for God should be the motivation for obedience. Not fear of reprisal, fines, imprisonment or worse.
Like eternal torment, e.g.?
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
If you love God, you'll keep His commandments. A love for God should be the motivation for obedience. Not fear of reprisal, fines, imprisonment or worse.
One of which is "you must love God". So, if you love God, you will love God.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
One of which is "you must love God". So, if you love God, you will love God.
The commandment was to love God with all your heart, soul and mind. Just "loving God" seems like simple affection, and the latter seems fervent and passionate.
The point of the passage is that all of the commandments can be encompassed into those two--meaning, if you love God with all your heart, and love your neighbor as yourself, you'll naturally fulfill all the other rules (in the law).
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
"The doctrines thus delivered we call the revealed or divine law, and they are to be found only in the holy scriptures... [and] are found upon comparison to be really part of the original law of nature. Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws; that is to say, no human laws should be suffered to contradict these." - Sir William Blackstone
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