jar writes:
And the second, "Love others as you love yourself." How much more relative could you get?
How so? Which "others" are we talking about? Does this not break down to Love as you love? Is this relative to the perfect love of Jesus Christ?
Love others as you love yourself.
Here Jesus is saying that your love for others, all others, should be in relation to your love of self.
PB, both of these are completely relative and the real beauty of GOD's love for us is that it IS based on relativity. That was Jesus' message, that salvation is based one relativity and not absolutes. God does not say you must run a three minute mile or jump 25 feet or lift 2000 pounds.
God just says "try to do your best".
But we stray far afield. Trying to move back towards the topic, the difference between things like the two Great Commandments and laws can be shown by an example.
If we applied the standards found in the Great Commandments to traffic laws we'd see laws that said "Drive no faster than you safely can" and "Drive as you wish others drove".
As you can see neither of these would be enforceable. In each case the issue reduces to individual capabilities.
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