"The Greatest Commandment
34 Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. 35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
When we choose to ignore or deliberately break these two commandments our thoughts, words and deeds eventually become less and less "good" and more and more "evil". Because God is completely Good and Loving, anything which is NOT done from the motivation of the love of God and the love of my neighbor is less than Good & Loving. Initially these thoughts, words and deeds may appear to be from a "good" person but eventually the errors accumulate and the results become labeled as "evil" by even the least spiritual among us.
The evil began when I chose my way over God's way.
The theme song of evil is Sinatra's "I Did it MY Way!"
However, in man’s present state in his fallen nature he is completely incapable of keeping God’s commandments.
The only perfect ONE who kept and fullfilled the law for us was Jesus Christ and his very own righteousness was imputed to us at our new birth, God see’s us now as totally perfectly having kept his law and commandments IN Christ.
For we are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
It’s called walking in the spirit and not in the flesh.
If we could have been able to keep even those 2 golden commandments, then ? Why did Saint John write this inspired by the holy spirit to write it ?
1 John 4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins.
However the commandment says to love your God with all your heart, all your mind and all your soul.
It’s a paradox, a oxymoron.
In the flesh, man’s self efforts and his self righteousness ? It’s impossible to love God the way he intended us to love him , unless we have a helper, the holy spirit and the God’s grace, and walking in that grace and not in the flesh.