[Huber]

Some candy for the theological section of the brain...

[Elsiejay]

I beg to differ with Benedict, and will make my case in the words of the Jesus, as recorded in Matthew 22:37-40, to wit:
“’You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ (Here quoting from Deuteronomy 6:5, although Deut. says “might” rather than”mind.”)
“This is the first and great commandment.
“And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
“On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
Note that the Master declines to conflate love of God with love of neighbor, but rather posits two distinctly differently ranked commandments, the second subordinate to the first yet still a commandment from God.

[Iscool]

Well, yes, I thought: of course we are "called" children of God. After all, God loves us and he sent his Son to die for us; in addition, we know that "the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him" (1 Jn 4:16). But it was all rather hazy. What I knew with most certainly was what I was saved from: sin and death. What I was saved for, strangely enough, was not nearly as clear. To be good, certainly. To do the right thing, yes. But, frankly, there was something missing in the rather standard Evangelical message of salvation I knew so well.

Well hey, it's all in the scriptures...I had no idea Evangelicals were that ignorant of scripture...