And if there are people who hold racist beliefs (and certainly there are, since people are always converting in), they are not
keeping the commandments of the Lord as recorded in scripture, or what the prophet and apostles are teaching.
Today I'm roman catholic and mostly Jewish first church of Joe's on the corner, but I do
n't keep the commandments cause seventh day adventists want me to eat pancakes on Thursday, though god - jaters make a lot of sense.
I agree that it does not necessitate an interpretation where we are setting out to prove our love
by keeping the commandments, thereby earning approval, but rather the obedience will result from a heartfelt love for Christ.
The doctrine of grace gives us grounds to hope that we may in fact
keep the commandments fully if we call upon God for help and co-operate with his assistance by exercising modesty, by keeping custody of the eyes, by avoiding impure conversations and by using all the other means traditionally employed in support of chastity.
By your definition, the greatest commandment is to love God with all yout heart, and to love your neighbor as yourself, then you say that loving God
means keeping His commandments.
... I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, to
keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.
From another point of view, Christians
still keep the Commandment regarding the seventh day anyway — they just call that day Sunday instead of Sabbath or Saturday.
Though I'd never associated my hardening agnosticism with my failure to
keep the commandment against adultery, the two were inextricably linked.
My child, do not forget my Torah, but let your
heart keep my commandments; for length of days and years of life and abundant shalom they will give you.
Further, even if you were to only follow the red ink, you would know that Christ's inclusivity is exclusive towards those who do not die to themselves and love him
by keeping his commandments.
For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and
keep My Commandments.
Anyone who opens their heart can receive Him and the perfect peace that comes from understanding His will: to fear God and
keep His commandments.
Jesus said, if you love me,
KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS!
I don't ever remember the Savior or his apostles teaching that
keeping the commandments was optional.
1st John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that
we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Note that God gives us the same warning in Deuteronomy 4:2 saying «Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may
keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.»
My family and I have
kept your commandments and attended church every Sunday.
You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing loving kindness to thousands of those who love me and
keep my commandments.
The Savior said, «
Keep my commandments», he also said, «He who is not against us is for us».
If you love me,
keep these commandments.
Instead it is thought of as a symbol of one's committment to
keeping the commandments of God.
* 1st John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and
keep his commandments.
* St. John 14:15 If ye love me,
keep my commandments.
I notice that some say that we can, without religion live a moral life, grant that is a part of a religious life, but I wish to explain: there is more than living a moral life to be saved, it is putting faith in God: it is: «If you love me,
keep my commandments.»
5 You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and
keep My commandments.
If
we all kept his commandments then he would answer our prayers and we would have peace.
there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life,
keep the commandments.
He does not tell his disciples to
keep the commandments; he assumes that they will.
The fourth Gospel reports Jesus» saying, «If you love me, you will
keep my commandments,» and «He who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God rests upon him.»
The way to
keep the commandment to love one another is to keep being vulnerable with one another.