This video is about perhaps what is the single most important question in the world. Which is what this God demand of us?
For a religion is not about meeting are own needs or if we some kind of magical formula that we do this or this God will give was some award. It is about answering the call to God, what is God demand of us?
In fact, the great Prophet Micah from the Hebrew Bible, who is prophetic words we actually read every June in the half Torah for the Prophetic reading for a Torah portion of Bowak. Asks the question rhetorically, what thus God demand of us? Is he answered to justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with God?
There is another answer to, one of the one the pivotal and central verses of all the Hebrew Bible the Torah, and the middle of the middle book and Leviticus, the whole Venus code it says, “Love thy neighbor us thy self”, a half Torah Hakamoka.
Now it is so fastening about the others that although that is the first time that occurs anywhere literature that we know of, you check almost any culture you find exactly the same sentiment.
800 BCE, the Marbarakah, “DO with others is THY words DO with thy self” or the God stand from 700 BCE. They are major only is good will it shall not do want to another, whatever is not good for its own self.
Genoasm for the 6 century BCE, “We should regard all creatures as we regard our own self. Refrain from inflicting upon other such injury as what appear undesirable to inflict it upon ourselves”.
Confucius 5th century BCE, “Why I do not wish others to do unto me, I should not wish to do unto others”. Of course, Jews, say BCE and most Christian say BC. Or Ben Seraf from 170 BCE, “Honor thy neighbor as thy self. For the great says chelov. The Jewish says chelov from 30 BCE. “Whatever doubts that would, that mentions at do to thee, do not do to them”. It is the whole or the whole rest is only explanation.
And then, Christianity comes on the scene and Luke, the Gospel of Luke from their New Testament, “As you would that men should do to you, do you also to them like wise”. And Matthew, “All things what so ever you should man do to you, do you even so to them”.
Muhammad, 7 century Islam: “Same amount of people are good to us, we will be good to them. If people oppress us, we shall oppress them. But, resolve if the people do good to you, we shall do good to them. And if they oppress you, oppress them not again”.
And so, maybe the most important thing to God is that simple rule; Love thy neighbor as thy self”. And, “Do not do to others what he would not like than to yourself”. It seems to be broad in every culture. And so whether it is Micah, what is God want from us to do justice and to love mercy into walk humbly with God? Or, it is this idea from Leviticus, the first time that occurs anywhere but repeated by so many cultures, “To love thy neighbors us thy self”, it seems pretty clear. The God who wants mercy and compassion and love? And to treat all human beings as it says the beginning of Genesis, in the image of God.
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