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"Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and 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
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The above two commandments are the Law of God, but as Christ said "all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments...
Think hard about and closely examine the Ten Commandments and you will see that the first four are about loving God, and the last six about loving people...
More laws were added usually when one of the ten commandments were not adhered to, or broken...
Kind of like "Do not steal" but someone steals and some form of punishment then becomes necessary, but circumstances matter and so, in American law and justice for example, the circumstances and magnitude under/to which one stole, leaves us to create laws for different circumstances under which one steals, like theft one, theft two, theft three, and so on with different less or more severe consequences under the circumstances under which one stole...
This is like the I think it is 614 or 615 laws that came about in ancient Israel were usually due to a violation under which the circumstances had to be addressed of one of the original Ten Commandments...
So, all of these are the laws of God, and they are all wrapped up and simplified in the two that Jesus spoke of...
God Bless!
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