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From your post ...

On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

“What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”

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.’”

“You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

You seem to be approaching this only as it pertains to loving your neighbor.

What about loving God (with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength) ?

How can you love God if you do not acknowledge who He truly is. How can you love God, while, simultaneously, ignoring all that He has given to us so that we might know Him ?

God says that you cannot ... much like your spouse might say if you ignored them all the time.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

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What about loving God (with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength)?

"I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me." (Mt25:40)

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You show your love of God by how you love your neighbor.