Deuteronomy 6:5 ~ And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.
Leviticus 19:18 ~ Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against any of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.
This is at the heart of both covenants - it cannot "die" and have the New Covenant still "live". Paul never taught anything in contradiction to this - in fact - Paul (and Jesus) encourages us to follow these instructions as our foundation of our faith.
So there must be a division in types of law or some other explanation.....right? Because certainly loving God and loving others is NOT a "ministry of death"....correct?2Co 3:6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
2Co 3:7 But if the ministry of death, written and engraved on stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away,
2Co 3:8 how will the ministry of the Spirit not be more glorious?
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There is continuity and discontinuity between the Testaments.
Quoting from link:
All the precepts of the Decalogue are also precepts of the natural law, which can be gathered by reason from nature herself, and in fact they were known long before Moses wrote them down at the express command of God. This is the teaching of St. Paul — "For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these having not the law [of Moses], are a law to themselves: who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them" (Romans 2:14, 15)"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Moral Aspect of Divine Law" CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Moral Aspect of Divine Law
All the precepts of the Decalogue are also precepts of the natural law, which can be gathered by reason from nature herself, and in fact they were known long before Moses wrote them down at the express command of God. This is the teaching of St. Paul — "For when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature those things that are of the law; these having not the law [of Moses], are a law to themselves: who shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness to them" (Romans 2:14, 15)"CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Moral Aspect of Divine Law" CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Moral Aspect of Divine Law
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