Jonathan Poletti
1 min readMar 5, 2019

Ok great. I’m now understanding you to say that the ‘love commandment’ of John 13:34 is the only one in effect, but that the Ten Commandments—alone, of all Jewish law—defines and clarifies what ‘love’ means.

Also, that the ‘commandment’ is now ‘personal’, which I think is your way of saying you’re not executing the punishments of Jewish law.

Is that your view? My mind is full of questions.

How do you isolate the Ten Commandments as the only part of Jewish law you’d use to define ‘love’?

How do you follow them, but remove the punishments?

And how do you evade the impression I’m getting from James 2:10 and Galatians 5:3 . . . that if you follow one part of Jewish law, you have to do it all.

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in

One question for you. What is your interpretation of the book of Jude

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in

Everything is a personal. It’s our choice. To love or not to love. It’s our choice to follow the commandments or not. It’s our choice to follow the Jewish laws if we want. Its our choice if we work for salvation or not. Everything is up to us and we should not impose what we believe or do upon others.

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in

James is referring to the 10 commandments I believe. He references adultery and and I think killing. The 10 commandments were specifically given by the hand of God, The others were not. It also specifically says that the gentiles were not required to conform to the old jewish laws

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