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Old 05-23-2007, 12:53 PM
PairTheBoard PairTheBoard is offline
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Default Re: The Well or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Become Big Nothing

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Goodness. The guy wants to throw a Jewish guy some credit for a change. And you bring in Jesus's words even though even Not Ready would agree he wasn't the first to say them.

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The funny thing is that he doesn't even realize that the following two statements are equivalent.

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13The conclusion, when all has been heard, is: fear God and keep His commandments, because this applies to every person.

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Jesus had a better solution. God is Love. Love God with all that is within you. And Love others as yourself.

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You can argue that to "Fear God" and to "Love God" are equivalent statements. But I don't think it's immediately apparent. To Fear someone is not normally understood as having the same relationship with them as Loving them.

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