(July 5, 2016 at 2:25 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(July 4, 2016 at 11:10 pm)SteveII Wrote: I disagree. He summed up the law and the prophets with two commandments: 1) love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul and 2) your neighbor as yourself. He explained that everyone was your neighbor. Further instruction and detailed examples were given in the other dozens and dozens of chapters.
The commandments here are to have agape for God and your neighbor, both. Insofar as agape for God does not require treatment as equals, neither does having agape for one's neighbor imply fairness and justice.
Modeling our relationship with our neighbor on our relationship with God leaves many questions of just what this agape is to consist of.
I'm not sure the fact that we are commanded to agape both God and man carries with it a distinction between the two types of relationships.
I found in Strong's Concordance:
Strong's Concordance
agapaó: to love
Original Word: ἀγαπάω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: agapaó
Phonetic Spelling: (ag-ap-ah'-o)
Short Definition: I love
Definition: I love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem.


