I have tried in vain to point this out to the Christians I know and converse with. But they INSIST the 10 commandments are the LAW. I tell them all the time, Christ did away with those, by this one verse from the Bible HE said.
Thank you OP, you are absolutely correct. At least there are some that KNOW Christ, and what HE meant by that...
Thank you.
Quoting: GeekOfTheWeek I think you are misunderstanding the OP.
He never said that the Ten commandments were gone and replaced by "The Two"
Op points out that Messiah is showing us that the 10 currently stand as a whole and can be described by the two.
Let me show you specifically:
The first 4 commandments refer to "thou shalt love thy Lord God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind."
1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
The remaining 6 are covered by the second part of that verse: "Thou shalt love thine neighbor as thyself."
5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 “You shall not murder.
7 “You shall not commit adultery.
8 “You shall not steal.
9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.”
This is extremely simple to see...
I read this when I was 5 and got it right away.
Then Messiah goes on to clarify the rest of The Law:
In these two commandments, hang all the law and the prophets.
He says that ALL of the laws created are based on these two premises.
He teaches us how to love Him and love each other.
