For as long as I've known, I've gone by the standard Westminstr answer. But what do my brothers think of it? I don't think it need be complicated, but if you think it is, I am interested to know.
Perhaps you should share the Westminster answer with everyone, so they all start from the same thought?
Sure, why did I not think of that? The Westminster catechism came up with this: The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever.
God's destiny and purpose is for man to be
conformed to the image of His Beloved Son!!
Mar 12:28-34 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.
And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.
And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he: and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.
Reply, I believe in Love
To grow togather and to be identified by our fruit, to be gathered and separated from tares, willowed from our outer chaff bodies, fermented with The First Fruits into love, by the leaven of holiness, The Holy Spirit of God.
Eddie
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Matthew 22:37 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.
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Hmmhmm wrote
“Matthew 22:37 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.”
Yes, the first commandment that we have from the beginning.
And the second commandment that we should love one another as we love ourselves.
Christians walk in The Light. If we say we walk in the light and do no love our brothers and sisters, we lie.
Eddie
yes, i think when we reach the fullness of these commandments then we have come to the "chief end of man"
what do you think?
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“Matthew 22:37 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.”
Yes, the first commandment that we have from the beginning.And the second commandment that we should love one another as we love ourselves.
Christians walk in The Light. If we say we walk in the light and do no love our brothers and sisters, we lie.
Eddie
Obviously then in our thinking, every Christian lies and that becomes a cop out for not needing to obey the commandment. "You are no better than me" I believe is how it goes, when desiring to remain in "self".
If any off you reach a point beyond those commands,
tell me how you did it.... but i doubt its possible
Yes, those two commandments are what we should live our lives by, but I want to pose a question: are they ends solely unto themselves?
We love God because he loved us, but in doing that and in loving others, is it not also to worship and bring honor to him? Our religion is worth something if we honor him through our tongue and actions, through loving our brother. It all says in bold letters:[b]God, I want to give you glory!!
God wants a Father-child relationship with us, and we can have it [b]now
"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ." Galatians 3:26-27
But what are all of the ends of the "means" of the greatest commandments?
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Not only is the commandment given for Christians to love one another but the new commandment is that we are to love as Jesus loves and not as the world loves. Devine love is shed abroad by the Holy Spirit.
We have to become as a child wholly dependant upon the love of God to enter The Kingdom of God. When we can love as Jesus did then we are perfected in love.
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