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To: SeekAndFind

You can sum up his two greatest messages with three words.

Forgive.
Judge not.

Works for me!


4 posted on 04/19/2009 2:19:15 PM PDT by djf (Live quiet. Dream loud.)
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To: djf
You can sum up his two greatest messages with three words.

Actually Jesus had a different answer to the question.

Matthew 22:34-45 (New International Version)

34Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:

36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"

37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind."

38This is the first and greatest commandment.


39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."


10 posted on 04/19/2009 2:23:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: djf
You can sum up his two greatest messages with three words. Forgive. Judge not. Works for me!

I like this. Thank you.
13 posted on 04/19/2009 2:26:43 PM PDT by mysterio
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To: djf

>You can sum up his two greatest messages with three words.

Really?
I thought it was Love God, and then love others. (simplified/paraphrased)
Or am I misinterpreting what He said when He said “Upon these two hangs all the Law and the Prophets”?


17 posted on 04/19/2009 2:33:54 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: djf
You can sum up his two greatest messages with three words.

Or one verse:

 

 
 
 
 John 6:27-29
 27.  Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval."
 28.  Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"
 29.  Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."

28 posted on 04/20/2009 3:49:26 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: djf
I believe Jesus said that His two greatest messages were "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind" and "Love your neighbor as yourself."

LOve you, my neighbor :-)

35 posted on 04/20/2009 6:33:38 AM PDT by T Minus Four (Ashes on the head are for mourning the dead; my God lives, Hallelujia!!)
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