We promote the ten commandments and would have them posted in public buildings, schools and other places to get the attention of our society.
But why not the two commandments? Jesus took the entire law and the prophets and whittled it down to two.
- Number One: You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
- Number Two: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
So I ask: Do we know better than Jesus?
I would think that this teaching which Jesus said is the greatest would be fundamental to our faith. God set the priority so I’m thinking that we need to honor him and his words and stop letting our preferences blind us to the clear, unmistakable teaching of Scripture.
What do you think?
- Matthew 22:35-40 (NKJV)
Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, [36] “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” [37] Jesus said to him, ” ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ [38] This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ [40] On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
