Christians obey all the ten commandments and loving God is the highest of them all.
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But the 10 commendments arn't about loving god they are about worshipping him and obaying him in all things
If you love me you will obey me said Jesus. When Jesus boiled the commandments down to loving God and loving neighbor he meant the ten commandments, and the first three are about loving God. That is how this is taught in most Bible studies I've attended.
Paul was God's instrument, as inspired by God as any of the OT prophets and no believer will ever pit Paul against God. All of Paul's teachings came from God.
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thats because you are a believer in paul's writings, its all a matter of degree, anyone can say they are god inspired.
When that person's writings have been approved by the church over the millennia and canonized and taken as authoritative, this isn't just "anyone" we are talking about.
I'm talking history here, the fact that paul was the person that preached to gentiles who would not follow the jewish law, and we don't follow it shows it must have been changed. it had nothing to do with being fair to someones beliefs. they condemmed anyone who worshiped idols and things like thing.
I can't really follow what you are saying. The only history we have of any of this comes from scripture. Paul is clearly the one who was sent to the Gentiles as the New Testament shows, the book of Acts in particular. The Gentiles didn't refuse to follow the Jewish law at all. Many of them were already proselytes in the synagogues. This had nothing whatever to do with expedience of any kind. The fact is that what Jesus did on the cross and in the resurrection and ascension fulfilled the Law and now we live to Christ and not the Law, as the scripture says.
Sorry if I'm answering an OT topic. I suppose it will end here then.
This message has been edited by Faith, 03-10-2006 02:40 AM