>>I like what Jesus said. "Love God with all your heart, mind, strentgh, (etc) and love your fellow man as yourself."
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>Glad to know that Jesus was familiar with Jewish Theology <g>. Part of the Shema, the Jewish prayer said three times daily, found originally in Deuteronomy, is the Ve'ahavta, which begins in English:
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>You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might
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>Here's a site with the complete text: http://www.jewfaq.org/prayer/shema.htm
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>Tamar

Interesting, Tamar. Thanks! It's sometimes a refreshing perspective to remember that Jesus wasn't 'Christian', neither was the God to whom he refered. His demographics indicate that he was a Jew and a pagan ('person from the countryside'). < place bait here > :)

Just curious...ever read any Elaine Pagels, Matthew Fox, Rabbi Heshel, Joseph Campbell, Karen Armstrong, Brian Swimme or Thomas Berry? (fyi, just a few favorites I enjoy.)

Steven-
P.S. The < bait > isn't for you... ;-) TIA for the tolerance.