Saints and Aints

 Hello everyone, here is a real theology post. It is about the first and second greatest commandments. I jsut heard it read at my church.  The first most important commandment is to love the lord your God with all your heart, mind, and strength.  And the second is to love your neighbor as yourself.  In the old testament what precedes this is the statement that the Lord your God is one, Israel.

So okay, here is a little question:  Where is family in this structure? Are they a type of neighbor? Because usually it is seen as differently than that.  I would say maybe they are part of the one-ness with God. When God says he is one (even though we now know he is a trinity), and says to love him with all your self, then maybe there is something about family that is part of either your love or the one-ness of God.  

So then later we can see that the concept of family can be extended to the church.  What I am saying is that the whole church universal and of all time might be part of that first commandment, when you love God with all your heart mind and strength, you are doing so with all of God's people.

I am now suggesting that the "neighbors" might be the reprobate and receive only justice. So it is either mercy or justice.

In other blogs I have said that mercy, justice, and grace are a trio of blessings that have to do with what is deserved and not deserved.  But here I am suggesting that the presbyterian heaven and hell theology might be contained in just these two verses.  It also makes me wonder about the geography of heaven and hell.  If you conclude that it is the church in the first verse and all others in the second verse, then why are they listed as neighbors? I just wonder what the proximity will always be, and if there is some way it already plays out in the purgatory of earth.

This could also be a caution about justice. This is an extreme view that I have never heard before, but I believe it is there if people want to consider it.