What are the 2 commandments from Jesus? Why only this 2? How about the rest of teaching in the Old Testament

Answer 1

In the first commandment, Love the Lord with all your hearts, mind soul and strength, it is actually summarising the first 4 of the 10 Commandments.

Love your neighbour as yourselves, it is actually summarising the next 6 commandments.

Jesus come not to throw away the Old Testament law, but to fulfil it. When reading the New Testament, it is important to be guided by the principle of Old Testament. In the same manner, the Old Testament need to be read with the light of New T.

Love your neighbour. Paul in the Romans 13, told us that if we have love, we will not steal, rob or do any harmful things. Thus, all the law about what to do in Old T can be summarised by this Second Commandment of Jesus, Love your enemy as Yourselves.

Answer 2

Jesus himself said He came to fulfill the law. There are more than just 2 commandments of Jesus. Try Matt 28:19-20. Then there is the Sermon on the Mount as found in Matthew chapters 5, 6 and 7. These are all commandments as given by Jesus Christ himself.

Answer 3

Love God and love others. His 2 commandments sum up the other 10. God is all about Love, in everything He and we do. If you live your life with love, then you are fulfilling the purpose God intended us for.

Also, although the 10 commandments are meant to be used as guidelines, most of the laws set down in the old testament were written off when Jesus died on the cross- because before the old testament, offering s had to be presented by way of asking for forgiveness for our sins. When Jesus died for our sins, that became unnecesary, and so the laws also had to change.

Answer 4

As everybody else has already said, there were many more commandments from Christ. You are just thinking of the two that he said were the "the first and greatest" (Matthew 22:30) commandments. He said "All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." (Matthew 22:40).

But He gives many many other commandments... much of the gospel story is Christ teaching people how to live!


Read the following excerpt from Mark Chapter 10, verses 17-21:

As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. "Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

"Why do you call me good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good—except God alone. You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother."

"Teacher," he declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy."

Jesus looked at him and loved him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."

Sounds like a few commandemtns were reiterated in that exchange (and that is just one of many).

May God bless you!

Answer 5

Mark 12:28-32. Jesus here summarizes the 10 commandments, the first 4 deal with our relation to God, the other 6 with our relation to one another.

Answer 6

Jesus said to love the lord, and love your neighbors (aka EVERYONE!) he said this sums up all the law and the prophets. the law is the torah, the prophets are the books in the old testament from isiahah to malakai (last book in old testament) that basically means if you love God and others, everything else falls into place. Jesus said he did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill it. matthew 5:17

Answer 7

I was not aware that Jesus delivered any commandments. It has been my opinion that Jesus delivered options to otherwise a miserable existence. But if you want to know what they were for the purpose of not breaking them then I might have a suggestion.

"treat everyone they way that you want to be treated" and the rest will automatically happen.

Answer 8

You need to study more. In the first five books of the bible alone, there are 613 commandments. New testament, over a thousand.

Answer 9

Actually Jesus has one commandment, Love one another as I love you.

Anything that divides us as people cannot be construed as religion, ever.

The word pure simply means whole, honest, without blemish, without flaw, real, genuine.

Religion attempts to formulate our relationships with one another and with God. Relationships are real. Prophets are concerned about how we treat one another and get along with one another. People come closer to God by coming closer to one another.

Churches are big on preaching what to do, but churches (all of them) are human institutions and flawed. Churches are often the worst when it comes to practicing what is preached.

So a true prophet is interested in our relationships, and in people. Churches are interested in the business side, the money, the rules, the restrictions. God never intended to start any business.

Any time we purport to hurt someone, anyone, that cannot be justified ever.

Answer 10

Many "law" "law" folk perceive the two love "laws" in Mt 22:36-40 are from Jesus, but they are notably commandments in Moses' law (the law was given by Moses: Jn 1:17). Also the second(law) is notably "like the first"(law), it's "another law", which is to say "evil concupiscence", which notably made Paul feel "wretched". And when this info is taken into Rom 8:2 "law" "law", the first is notably "sin and death". And this sort of Death, which rode in on a horse (law), is followed by hell. So that is why we should say "Nay Nay" to both the "rider"(Death) and the "horse"(Law) it rode in on in Revelation 6:8.

As for the "Old" Testament, it's "old", faulty, and ready to vanish; because as Solomon said: it's "all vanity and vexation of spirit".

We are not to mix old and new things, for putting new wine in old bottles results in bursting, spilling, and perishing of the new wine. Not to mention mixing old and new things such as law and grace makes an oxyMORON with a BAD ending such as life + DEATH; or one thing called a proselyte: twofold more the child of hell(law) than former hypocrites, fools, vipers, and blind guides who notably sat in Moses' seat: Law (Mt 23).

Rather we are to compare spiritual(law) with spiritual(grace);
Law: is spiritual, but also spiritual abuse
Grace: is spiritual, but it's never abusive
http://www.godshew.org/HowbeitAfterward.htm

And when compared as two glorys, such as in 2Cor 3, law glory fades to nothing by compare-i-son, since grace glory is so exceedingly "much more" that it's like comparing night glory with day glory. In the day(light) the night glory of moon and stars fade to nothing at the coming of the sun of righteousness.
http://www.godshew.org/TwainShew3.htm#Glorys

Solomon says: "with all thy getting, get understanding", noting that when understanding is embraced, it results in thy head (Christ is the head of every man, whose head is God) being crowned with "grace" glory, the "incorruptible" and "immortal" crown of two corruptible/incorruptible and mortal/immortal law/grace crowns mentioned in 1Cor 9; 1Cor 15, etc.
http://www.godshew.org/TwainShew2.htm#Crowns

The "grace" of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.