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To: redleghunter
>>>Do the 10 commandments save us?<<<

We only need keep one:

"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." (Mat 7:12)

"Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." (Rom 13:10)

"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." (Gal 5:14)

"If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:" (Jam 2:8)

Of course, to keep that one requires us to also keep another, but they are similar:

"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." (Mat 22:36-40)"

I interpret that to mean, if you hate yourself, you still have no right to hate your neighbour.

This was Jesus' chief (maybe the only serious) complaint against the Jews. Love thy neighbour was the part of the Law that the rabbi's and Jewish leadership tended to ignore. They certainly were not very neighbourly to the prophets. Recall this:

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." (Mat 23:23)

Loving one's neighbor was clearly written in the Law:

"Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord." (Lev 19:18)

Philip

66 posted on 01/23/2014 11:53:22 PM PST by PhilipFreneau
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To: PhilipFreneau

Indeed. I believe our obedience does not please the Father without the reckoned righteousness of the Son. Without His Grace, I also believe obedience is impossible.


67 posted on 01/24/2014 12:00:57 AM PST by redleghunter
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