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# Love One Another (part 1)
- URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/love-one-another-part-1/
- Published: 2021-07-10T00:54:31.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T21:46:17.000Z
- Description: The Holy Scriptures reveal wonderful principles that have been hidden by traditional teachings, both social and religious.
- Author: Airton Humber
- Tags: #en, #de-amem-se-uns-aos-outros-parte-1

The Holy Scriptures reveal wonderful principles that have been hidden by traditional teachings, both social and religious.  
One of them teaches that God created man in his image and likeness, and the scientific theory taught in schools claims that man is a monkey that evolved.

This reminds me of the story of that little girl who went to ask her mother:  
Mom, you always taught me that we were created by God and today at school the teacher said that we came from the monkey. I went to ask Dad and he confirmed what the teacher said. So Mom, where did we come from, after all?  
The mother answered calmly: Daughter, your father came from one family, and we came from another.

The Scriptures teach that God created the world by calling things into existence; God spoke and things came to be. So it is written:  
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty; darkness covered the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved over the face of the waters. God said: **Let there be light**, and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.

So God went on creating all things and seeing that they were good. When he went to create man, he said: Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness… God created man in his image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them… And God saw everything that he had made, and everything had turned out very good.

While God was creating all things, he saw that they were **good**; when God created man and woman, he saw that everything turned out **very good**.

The whole OT tells the story of man's separation from God, through the deception of the Evil One, the consequences of it, and points to the restoration of man. The NT already shows God's reconciliation with man, and his freedom from slavery. And we see that the Evil One keeps acting the same way, to this day. Even though he no longer has the authority to do so, he keeps deceiving men, making man forget the work accomplished by Jesus.

The OT gathers the Law and the Prophets and sums them up as: **Love your neighbor as yourself.** 
This proved weak, useless, it perfected nothing and was abolished by God.  
Then, in the NT, Jesus gives us a new commandment: **Love one another. As I have loved you, you must love one another.**

Just as science teaches that man came from the monkey, many religious people, even with excellent intentions, keep preaching the observance of the Law, to the detriment of the new commandment given by Jesus.

To remember and to be more comfortable: God had announced, in the OT, through the prophet Jeremiah: I will put my laws in their hearts and write them on their minds; and he adds: Their sins and their wickedness I will remember no more.

An important difference between the OT and the NT:  
In the OT, we were the reference: Love, as you love yourself  
In the NT, Jesus is the reference: Love one another, as I have loved you.  
Seeing this changes simply **EVERYTHING**: There is no longer the figure of the neighbor, you and I are no longer the reference; we need to abandon our own sense of justice, because it stinks.

So, if I am still referring to the old Law, to loving the neighbor, am I rescuing what God himself abolished?! Jesus had warned: You always find a little way to abandon the commandment of God to follow your own traditions.

Which family did we come from, after all…. lol?

(To be continued… in another post)