Yes, but don't you see that when Jesus said, "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.’
Those two statements cover all ten of the commandments. If we love our neighbours as ourselves we will not steal from them or tell lies about them or kill them or commit adultery with them or covet their wives or their cars or their homes or jobs etc.
I see that clearly, but how do we love God, Pearl?
How does simply adhering to the simplicity of those two
abbreviated Commandments cause us to just as naturally obey the first 4 Commandments that God has prescribed as
His Way of loving Him?
It doesn't.
And that is why He was specific about
how He expects us to love Him. Sure, we can all pretty well figure out the extent of the Golden Rule, but how do we then overlay that to a way of loving God? We are not God, we cannot treat God as
we would like to be treated as gods. We have
no concept of that. That is why He supplies that information for us. Isn't it silly to believe that He went to all the trouble, and drama, of creating and presenting the 10 Commandments if we were too smart to need them; if we could just simply figure it out on our own?
If you want to love God with all your heart, mind and strength, there is a
prescription for that. See, people aren't spirits ... yet. It's easy, in our human ways to figure out how to treat others as we'd appreciate being treated. But it's not so easy to just naturally
know how to love God, a spirit, in a way that satisfies God.
Therefore, we go to the first 4 Commandments to know
exactly how to do what
cannot come naturally to us.
Then, after doing so for some time, it
does become natural. It is how God
prefers to be loved.
Can God not have any say in all of this? Has He not
earned that right?