The Law of Love

McIlroy, David H.

Abstract

The Bible is clear that to love God involves seeking to be obedient to God. Being God’s people involves seeking to make wise decisions about the way in which God wants us to live. Jesus commands his followers to love God and our neighbours. In working out what that means, followers of Jesus need to take into account what God has revealed in the Torah about what it means to love him and to love another, as fulfilled, interpreted and modelled by Jesus. The Holy Spirit is given to us to enable us to grow in love. In order to make wise decisions we need to have internalised God’s law and to meditate on it with the help of the Spirit. In heaven, doing what God wants will be second nature. Till then, reflection on God’s law is an indispensable part of discerning what it means in practice to love God and to love our neighbour.

Citation

McIlroy, D. H. (2008). The Law of Love. Cambridge papers, 17(2),

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jun 1, 2008
• Deposit Date: Sep 29, 2008
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 10, 2025
• Journal: Cambridge Papers
• Print ISSN: 1361-7710
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 2
• Keywords: Torah Holy Spirit Mosaic Law
• Publisher URL: http://www.jubilee-centre.org/document.php?id=266
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