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Main Commandement
Man’s Love for and of GOD

(Part one)

Love, as GOD already taught her to us in the Old Covenant and as
it was word for word confirmed by JESUS in the New Covenant, is
as follows: with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind,
and with all our strength.

It is wrong or at least imperfect to state that this has been fulfilled if I
keep GOD’s Commandments with faith and reverence alone! Let us
remember, then, the teaching of St Paul Apostle to the Corinthians:

1 Cor. 13,1-8 and 13
„If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And
if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And if I should dis-
tribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my
body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profits me nothing.
Charity is patient, is kind: charity envies not, deals not perversely, is
not puffed up. Is not ambitious, seeks not her own, is not provoked
to anger, thinks no evil. Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices with the
truth. Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures
all things. Charity never falls away. … And now there remain faith,
hope and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.”

This teaching of Apostle Paul surely says enough.

In the Old Covenant GOD was honoured by His People merely out
of faith and fear of GOD (with few exceptions of enlightened per-
sons). It was like a kind of marriage of convenience. It must of
course be clear to everybody that there must be a vast difference
between a marriage of convenience and a marriage of love! So, by
way of comparison, like a union of man and GOD: out of fear of
GOD – or out of love. However, we do live in the New Covenant,
the Covenant of love – love match between GOD and man!

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