Well, duh, you could have answered the question. :)
What a splendid exhibition of "bean-counter" mentality!
Is that worse than someone who avoids answering questions?
I mean, does kosta really suppose that "love thy neighbor as thyself" is an immediately executable programmed command?
It is a commandment. What does that mean to you, in your private word-meaning world? Let me help you with some synonyms so there is no confusion: commandment—rule, mandate, precept, edict, order...hmmmm.
[not an]...immediately executable programmed command
How "immediate" is immediate to you, bb? Today, tomorrow, next week, when you feel like it, when you can walk on water, in heaven, on Greek Calends, eventually, in eternity...?
I would imagine that for someone who truly believes in Christ, obedience to his commandments would be the way of life even if one doesn't (yet) find it in his or her heart, just knowing that it was your God who tells you the truth and what he wishes—a sacred obligation and deep-felt desire to please him? Or is it just lip service?
Do you not live with the desire to please God? Do you not say "thy will be done," and know that it is his will that you love your neighbor as yourself?
Do you see what I am getting at? It's all talk, self-edification, but words and actions speak differently. You know what that means...even in your private vocabulary, I don't have to define it.
Jeepers, dear kosta, none of those items makes my "to-do list," short- or long-term.
To answer your question, which seems to have something to do with Who is the Source of Truth? And if it is God Himself, who needs Abraham or Moses?
But Judeo-Christianity absolutely depends on the "testimony" of Abraham and Moses....
Which struck me as your way of delegitimating the honor and reputation of a man of faith, a man of the cloth with long service as a military chaplain....
You keep up that sort of thing around here, and sooner or later, you'll find no one around here will ever want to speak to you again.
Starting with me.