Originally Posted by Irishguy
My main interpretation or take away from this verse where Jesus was speaking with the Pharisee (I don't believe he was a Lawyer as we know it, he was an expert of the Rabbinical law, not Roman law.) is this...

Jesus was making a point to us that all the religious doublespeak and religious fluff is not important. The only thing that is important is that you Love God and you Love other people. That's it. That's the main thing. The words came straight out of Jesus' mouth. How much plainer and more straightforward can you get than straight from the source. Jesus said, "Do this and you will live." Period. End of story.

But again, humans are going to human and they are going to take anything, even salvation, and make it complicated with a bunch of minutia that turns people away from salvation. Then they are going to spend the rest of their lives arguing with people about who's right who's wrong about all the religious minutia and who's the more "correct" Christian. It is literally the modern day version of the Pharisee.

Jesus was trying to simplify Christianity for all people to understand, but here we are arguing tidbits of religion as humans will do.

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