The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Questioning God’s Greatest Commandment

The passages you provided are irrelevant to the truth above, which is eminently biblical. As I have labored to point out to you from the very day you arrived here, to love God is to DO God's revealed will (Jh 14:15, 15:10; 1Jh 2:3-5, 5:2-3; Lk 6:46ff).

1. NO MAN is able to do ALL the revealed will of God but one; Christ Jesus. For within ALL men there is a sin nature, either one which has total dominance or one which has been greatly bound yet not completely as in a regenerated man. Thus, it is IMPOSSIBLE for any man to love God perfectly with mind, heart, soul and strength. This is the testimony of ALL of the Apostles, disciples and true followers of Christ which were, are and are yet to come. To say otherwise is to blaspheme God condemn yourself (1Jh 1:8-10; 1Kg 8:46; Job 14:4, 15:14; Ps 143:2; Prov 20:9; Eccl 7:20; Isa 64:6; Rom 3:23; 1Jh 2:4).

2. Re: Matt 19:26 - a. It states that with GOD "all things" are possible. However, even here the "all things" must be taken relatively and not absolutely; God cannot sin.

3. Re: Matt 21:22 - a) Without a perfect faith, you will not receive "all things", which again must be taken relatively and not absolutely. b) Whatever is prayed/asked for with the expectation of receiving it is always qualified by "according to His will" (1Jh 5:14).

4. One must make the necessary distinction between God's "decretive will", i.e., that which God has decreed, foreordained, determined from eternity which will infallibly come to pass (Job 23:13)... and God's "prescriptive will", i.e., that which God requires of men which has no guarantee that it will happen. It is God's prescriptive will that ALL MEN without exception love Him with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength. But NO MAN will nor can fulfill this command, except the man Christ Jesus.

5. Re: John 14:26 - a) This promise was given to the Apostles and cannot be taken to be a universal promise to ALL men, even those who profess to believe. For, the second part of the passage also speaks of the Spirit reminding them of all that Jesus taught them. b) Once again, the "all things" must of necessity be taken relatively and not absolutely. Was Jesus promising all believers or even just the apostles that the Holy Spirit would teach them quantum mechanics or astrophysics or even simple algebra, or how to make French ragout?

6. Re: 1Cor 13:4-7 - But again, "all things" must be understood relatively and not absolutely. Is it God's will that you believe falsehood, etc.???

Your concern may be sincere, but it is incontrovertibly unwarranted, because I offered myriad biblical texts to undergird my points in my previous reply. To be sure, my experience is in 100% accord with the biblical teaching concerning my spiritual state as a regenerated sinner, a believer in Christ by grace. My experience is in total harmony with Paul's own experience who confessed "For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not." (Rom 7:18). And more, Romans 7:24-25 (ASV) "Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then I of myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."

Yet, you apparently think that you can overcome this universal truth and universal experience of all true believers and thus love God with your all. Some might say this is rank arrogance on your part. There is an example in Scripture of a similar individual who asked Jesus how he might inherit eternal life. The Lord Christ responded by pointing out that NO ONE is good but God. And He continued by reminding him that one must keep ALL the law of God [love God]. And this ruler who was wise in his own eyes and with great unrestrained arrogance and ignorance responded by professing that he had kept ALL THESE THINGS from my youth. Not only was he incredibly naive concerning the depth of God's holy law, his ability to keep them, but also his own accomplishment to keep them.

"Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth." (2Tim 2:15).

I tell you in all honesty, if you have not come to the point in your life, which only the Spirit of God can work within you, that you are are horrible sinner, a wretch, a dead sinner whose rotting corpse stinks in the nostrils of God, then your biggest need is not to sell some book you have written or worry about loving God with your all, but rather to get right with God by praying that God would have mercy upon you and send His Spirit to bring this most necessary conviction of sin and guiltiness to you and with great humility bow before God pleading that you might be forgiven in Christ.