Love is the fulfillment…
Rick Simmons
10/1/2024
I said a while ago that we don’t need the law and even the Ten Commandments if we have love. You don’t kill if you love, you don’t steal if you love, you don’t commit adultery if you love, etc. If you do, you go to reconciliation in the past. We likely will do so in the future because we strive to do the best we can. Why not research and transition beyond those things that lead us to sin, even though we are all sinners? What if we are all brought to a similar equity foundation condition out of survival zone suffering? Why not holistically tell everyone on Earth to prioritize love and explain the rationality that I am trying to propose? The following is a quote about natural law by Thomas Aquinas:
“For Aquinas, everything has a function (a telos), and the good thing (s) to do are those acts that fulfill that function. Some things, such as acorns and eyes, do that naturally. However, humans are free and need guidance to find the right path. That right path is found through reasoning and generates the “internal” Natural Law” (CSU). I came up with the idea of holistic prescriptive advice as a holistic preventative natural law satisfying concept. Natural law and natural healthy living are different from the current law. Is the natural law a natural concept inherent in nature?
Thomas Aquinas sounds like an early faithful ecologist. It reminds me of the notion that everything is related to and connected. I like the part where the right path is determined by reasoning and rationality, which sounds a lot like science. Anyway, I think God was working together with Aquinas. Natural Law can be learned from God’s teachings and Nature.
Two quotes struck me as engaging in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The first is “Love is the fulfillment of the law,” and the second is that “Love is the fulfillment of the Ten Commandments,” which led me to combine these two. Love is the fulfillment of the Ten Commandments and the law. Listening to the catechism was not my first time understanding this, as I considered this in the fourth grade during a period while going to catechism when I asked why we have war when God wants us to be all about love, or we are supposed to be all about Love. I wonder if God meant it in one way for times of war and violence and in the other for times of peace and love. Consequently, one way may lead to freedom, and the other may lead to liberty cycle exclusion and extremism.
When you combine these ideas, we should emphasize the first syllable in the sentence LOVE, which fulfills the Ten Commandments and the law like freedom. This means love is all we need, like the Beatles song and the 1960s, if we choose love over war and violence, etc. If not, then God probably wants to emphasize that Love fulfills the 10 COMMANDMENTS AND THE LAW, which forces you to live in liberty. Maybe God wants humanity to decide for itself. Which do you prefer? I prefer Love fulfills the Ten Commandments and the law. Imagine the energy wasted on ignorance, preventable suffering, complexity, chaos, negative energy, litigiousness, violence, war, crime, and terrorism while reimagining the positive energy we could allocate towards restoration, positive energy, and holistic rationality.
God loves all people, and everyone should love God above all else with their heart, mind, and soul, which means they should Love above all things. Life on Earth is about getting to heaven; some people are called earlier than others. Anyway, I have proposed a similar foundation condition for everyone on Earth that should replace law and possibly the 10 Commandments when you include holistic prescriptive advice—loving, caring, sharing, giving, forgiving, and genuine kindness striving for comfort, joy, love, hope, faith, and sustainable striving happiness in context with natural earth striving, natural humanity striving, and natural spirituality with God approach. In summary, let us be excited about transitioning to how things could be with our desired future conditions on planet Earth.
The world without end…