I think that's a good answer.
I just wonder at the applicability. I mean, Christ said simply "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' "This is the great and foremost commandment. "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."
I think it's interesting that He said the the second commandment is "like" it. So to love the neighbor is like loving God. The word like is homoia, similar to the same. The two are the same, like two sides of the same coin.
But we also know that you can keep the whole Law completely faithfully and fail at keeping either/both of those commandments.
I suppose at the end of the day looking to the words of God through His prophets seems diminished when compared to keeping His words from His mouth...and adhering to Him or trusting Him when He said that eternal life was simply to know Him, Jesus Christ. We want to have union with Him, and know Him. From there our wisdom and righteousness should flow, I think.
Do you feel like you are joined to Him by following Torah? I mean, does tzit tzit help this?
It's not snark, I'm asking sincerely. We all are trying to be in Him to bear fruit. I just feel like we have a better way, a way told us by Him (repentance, confession, baptism, and communion).
I just wonder at the applicability. I mean, Christ said simply "YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' "This is the great and foremost commandment. "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."
I think it's interesting that He said the the second commandment is "like" it. So to love the neighbor is like loving God. The word like is homoia, similar to the same. The two are the same, like two sides of the same coin.
But we also know that you can keep the whole Law completely faithfully and fail at keeping either/both of those commandments.
I suppose at the end of the day looking to the words of God through His prophets seems diminished when compared to keeping His words from His mouth...and adhering to Him or trusting Him when He said that eternal life was simply to know Him, Jesus Christ. We want to have union with Him, and know Him. From there our wisdom and righteousness should flow, I think.
Do you feel like you are joined to Him by following Torah? I mean, does tzit tzit help this?
It's not snark, I'm asking sincerely. We all are trying to be in Him to bear fruit. I just feel like we have a better way, a way told us by Him (repentance, confession, baptism, and communion).