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The passage from Lukes Gospel today is yet another useful and illuminating explanation from Yeshua about how to have eternal life. Yeshuas message is ignored and even contradicted in the gospel proclaimed by many churches . . . In Luke’s story the question is not about the greatest commandment, but how to inherit eternal life. The eternal life question is probably brought to mind by Daniel 12:2. . . . Yeshua says here that loving God and neighbor are the prime traits of a person who will inherit eternal life. Note how Yeshua’s answer is incompatible with some Christian notions of a works-free salvation. . . . The lawyer then tries to show Yeshua an inadequate teacher by asking about the limits of the concept of “neighbor.” . . . The lawyer is reflecting on a question of legal obligation: to whom am I obligated by neighbor love? Yeshua turns the question on its head. He ends up asking the lawyer, “Which of these three became a neighbor?” In keeping with Yeshua’s principle of interpreting Torah always in its highest ethical and spiritual demand, he says that everyone is a neighbor (and particularly that obligation is to enemies, outcasts, and those usually overlooked). -from todays DAILY DVAR on Luke 10:21-24, sign up free here eepurl/exqyo
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 21:05:02 +0000

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