On these two commandments hang all the Law

[Hobie]

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Matthew 22:37-40
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

What did Christ mean by this, why not just give the Ten Commandments...

 

[Soyeong]

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Matthew 22:37-40
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

What did Christ mean by this, why not just give the Ten Commandments...

The issue is that some of God's commandments appear to conflict with each other, such as when God commanded priests to rest on the Sabbath while also commanding priests to making offerings on the Sabbath (Numbers 28:9-10), however, it was not the case that priests were forced to sin by breaking one of the two commandments no matter what they chose to do, but that the lesser commandment was never intended to be understood as preventing the greater commandment from being obeyed. This is why Jesus said in Matthew 12:5-7 that priests who did their duties on the Sabbath were held innocent, why David and his men were held innocent, and he defended his disciples as being innocent. Likewise, there are issues like whether we are permitted to tell a like in order to preserve someone's life, so it is because of issues like these that we need to know which commandment is the greatest.

How can we know which commandment is the greatest? For example, the greatest commandment might be the one with the highest penalty for breaking, the commandment that is repeated the most, the commandment that the Israelites were most frequently criticized for breaking, the commandment that promised the greatest reward for obeying, the commandment that God specifically said to remember, and so forth. All of God's laws are essentially about how to love God or how to love our neighbor, which is why Jesus said that those are the greatest two commandments and that all of the other commandments hang on them. For example, if we love God and our neighbor, then we won't commit adultery, theft, murder, idolatry, rape, kidnapping, favoritism, and so forth for the rest of God's commandments.

 

[Bob Estey]

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Matthew 22:37-40
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

What did Christ mean by this, why not just give the Ten Commandments...

The two great commandments state the purpose.

The Ten Commandments help define the two.

The rest of the Bible help define the ten.

 

[Hobie]

The two great commandments state the purpose.

The Ten Commandments help define the two.

The rest of the Bible help define the ten.

So Christ was showing them the overriding principle..

 

[Bob]

Thank you for your post.

Do the 10 commandments yield All of the defining characteristics of Love Thy Neighbor? (Sharing & Caring; Kind & Gentle; Lifetime, monogamous, faithful marriages between men and women.)

The first 4 commandments give us Love the Lord Your God.

Commandment 5 establishes the nuclear family as the foundation for a Love Thy Neighbor community.

Commandments 6 - 10 tells us that the violence against our neighbors is forbidden.

What seems to be missing (from the 10) are Jesus’ commands to help the needy (Matthew 25: 35, 36): that caring and sharing for our neighbors is an important characteristic of Love Thy Neighbor. Instead, we look to Leviticus 19, etc.

Peace and blessings.

 

[Bob Estey]

So Christ was showing them the overriding principle..

But as Christ said, he didn't come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it.

 

[MatthewG]

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Matthew 22:37-40
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

What did Christ mean by this, why not just give the Ten Commandments...

A lot of people teaching says is it’s a summary of the 10. If it’s a summary of the ten, made to two, then we should obey what he has said.

If that is all there is to do, with Christ in us, and God in us, it’s possible to do with God.

• ”Jesus looked at them and said, “This is something that people cannot do. But God can do anything.”“
• ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭19‬:‭26‬ ‭ERV‬‬
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• ”Dear friends, we should love each other, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has become God’s child. And so everyone who loves knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
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• This is how God showed his love to us: He sent his only Son into the world to give us life through him. True love is God’s love for us, not our love for God. He sent his Son as the way to take away our sins.
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• That is how much God loved us, dear friends! So we also must love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us. If we love each other, God’s love has reached its goal—it is made perfect in us.
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• We know that we live in God and God lives in us. We know this because he gave us his Spirit. We have seen that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world, and this is what we tell people now.
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• Anyone who says, “I believe that Jesus is the Son of God,” is a person who lives in God, and God lives in that person. So we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is love. Everyone who lives in love lives in God, and God lives in them.
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• If God’s love is made perfect in us, we can be without fear on the day when God judges the world. We will be without fear, because in this world we are like Jesus. Where God’s love is, there is no fear, because God’s perfect love takes away fear. It is his punishment that makes a person fear.
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• So his love is not made perfect in the one who has fear. We love because God first loved us. If we say we love God but hate any of our brothers or sisters in his family, we are liars. If we don’t love someone we have seen, how can we love God?
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• We have never even seen him. God gave us this command: If we love God, we must also love each other as brothers and sisters.“
• ‭‭1 John‬ ‭4‬:‭7‬-‭21‬ ‭ERV‬‬

 

[Hobie]

Thank you for your post.

Do the 10 commandments yield All of the defining characteristics of Love Thy Neighbor? (Sharing & Caring; Kind & Gentle; Lifetime, monogamous, faithful marriages between men and women.)

The first 4 commandments give us Love the Lord Your God.

Commandment 5 establishes the nuclear family as the foundation for a Love Thy Neighbor community.

Commandments 6 - 10 tells us that the violence against our neighbors is forbidden.

What seems to be missing (from the 10) are Jesus’ commands to help the needy (Matthew 25: 35, 36): that caring and sharing for our neighbors is an important characteristic of Love Thy Neighbor. Instead, we look to Leviticus 19, etc.

Peace and blessings.

One would think that goes without saying, no need to even look..