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To: safisoft
Well, you've touched on some topics I know almost nothing about (Supercessionism, Dispensationalism, and other competing Protestant theological approaches.) And to be honest, I have little interest in them.

I try to keep these teachings close to my heart:

(Matthew 22:34-40) Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

And this:

(Romans 13:8) Owe no man anything but to love one another, for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the whole law.

77 posted on 04/30/2008 7:42:35 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Christ said, 'I am the Truth'; not 'I am the custom.'"-- St. Toribio)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

AMEN SISTER!!!


80 posted on 04/30/2008 9:27:25 AM PDT by pig mint
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To: Mrs. Don-o
Summation statements are often used to negate legal details. You know, "Just love everybody." That is not their intent. To do so is to turn the very statements on their head. What is the definition of love? Keep His Commandments (1John 5:3).

The "two commandments" that all the law hangs are both found in the Law itself. Deuteronomy 6:4 and Leviticus 19:8.

Without the Law - ALL OF IT, you do not even know what loving G-d and loving your neighbor MEANS.
82 posted on 04/30/2008 9:49:08 AM PDT by safisoft
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