Luke 10:25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
Luke 10:27 He answered: “’Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Seems sort of cut and dry to me. Unless you think Jesus left something out or got it wrong.
The problem Jonah, is that no one (in their own strength) “loves God with all their heart” or always “loves their neighbor as yourself”..
Answer me have you ALWAYS and every second done both of these-every second of your life?
If not, then Jesus was pointing out that it is impossible for men to do this- that is why we needed to recieve His sacrifice in faith! -J.S.
Context, dear Jonah. Jesus also said:
John 6:27-29
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.