Two of Jesus' main missions in 6 words in 2 sentences

Leading into my next blog post about critical reading, thinking and reasoning, look at these short and simple, yet absolutely critical 6 words to Jesus' mission:

Jesus told the leaders of the faith (more than once) during his physical existence on earth:

"You are wrong." (Mark 12:24, Matthew 22:29)

and he said to everyone:

"Love one another." (John 13:34)

Jesus first had to stop the 'wrong' teaching and then he gave what I consider to be THE commandment. We can study the impact of these 6 words in the next post.

What has Socrates got to do with critical understanding of the Gospels? Everything.

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