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As much as we can debate whether Christmas is really a religious holiday any more, no one even attempts to claim New Year’s as a “holy” day. But I am beginning to think it is, after a fashion.
I’m not talking about the way people celebrate New Year’s Eve with its worst reputation being an evening of…..
You might be tempted to think this teaching comes from the New Testament. And it does. Jesus says it according to Matthew 22:39, Mark 12:29, and Luke 10:27 and both James (James 2:8) and Paul (Romans 13:9 and Galatians 5:14) refer to it as the foundation of the faith. But it was first stated in the Old Testament, in Leviticus.
When Jesus speaks this saying in Matthew and Mark, He is quoting from Leviticus 19:18 in answer to the…..