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What is ethics? Ethics is not merely about tricky situations or hot topics. Instead, ethics asks questions about what sort of people we are, how we think, what sort of things we do and don’t do, and how we ought to live our everyday lives. How might we learn ethics from the Old Testament? Instead of searching for support for our positions or pointing out problems with certain passages, trusted...

your nice neighbor you could hate your enemy. Jesus fulfills the Torah by bringing out its implications. A further guideline arises from another question he was once asked. What’s the most important of all the commands in the Torah? It was a question that Jewish theologians liked to debate, though there was really little doubt about the answer. It’s the command to love God with heart and soul and mind and strength (Deut 6:5). Like some other Jewish teachers, Jesus wanted to augment it with another
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