Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God (GOD NOT THE MESSIAH) 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.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these TWO COMMANDMENTS." - (Matthew 22:37-40)
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the COMMANDMENTS, which is the MOST IMPORTANT?" "The MOST IMPORTANT ONE," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God (GOD NOT THE MESSIAH) the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God (GOD NOT THE MESSIAH) with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' - (Mark12:28-30)
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying,"Teacher, WHAT SHALL I DO TO INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE?"He said to him, "What is written in the law? How do you read?" And he answered, "You shall love the Lord your God (GOD NOT THE MESSIAH) with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself." And he said to him, "You have answered right; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE." - (Luke 10:25-28)
These are repeated THREE TIMES. They are in each of the synoptic gospels.
These two greatest commandments do not mention anything about the finite human Jesus of Nazareth, The Messiah ...or about being born again ... or about Christians following any of the man made "fundamentals" ... or about Christians having to believe in the bible ... or about Christians having to be fundamentalist / orthodox ... or about belief in Jesus as God ... or in belief about Jesus being resuscitated from the dead .. or beief in Jesus flying through the sky to heaven ... or about attending church or about Christians having to hold right-wing political idealogy.
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