The Dilemma
The dilemma in Matthew 22:37–39. The Bible says, • 37: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" • 38: "This is the great and first commandment" • 39: "And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself" The foregoing verses were actually a summation of the ten commandments. Details of which proved to be unburdensome. In substance, it was attuned to the tenet, "do not do unto others what you do not want do unto you". It is a neighborly love that may be equated to, "do not hate thy neighbor". Hence, firm believers found verse 37 to be far more unexacting and less inconvenient to follow, at least through the exercise of faith, principally because after all, God has no bias and prejudice. On the other hand, there seems to be some diificulty if not reluctance in abiding with verse 39. That is, "love thy neighbor as thyself ", since, it is somehow regarde...