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righteousness, only a relative righteousness (John 14:6, Rom 3:10) as this was a
secondary will way (Mat 7:12, Rom 10:3). Complete adherence to the Law would
forgive all sins, except the unforgivable sin of non-salvation (Mark 16:16, Rom
10:4).

When Jesus summarises the Law the standard used is the Love of God, neighbour
and oneself i.e. God’s standard but this is a summary or headline extraction i.e. not
an exact equivalence or same identity (Mat 22:37-40 - ‘hang’, Mark 12:29-31 -
‘first’ and ‘second’, Luke 10:26-28 - ‘what is written in the law?’ and ‘how readest
thou?’). The references to ‘first’ and ‘second’ commandments establishes Christ’s
commands as part of the Law (Deut 30:10, Rev 22:18-19), for those under it not
having fulfilled it vicariously by Christ, and indeed as 'before' the Ten
Commandments (John 8:58) and the laws that followed (Mat 22:37-40, Mark
12:30-31), which means that to keep, as opposed to vicariously fulfil by Christ,
just, the Law one would still need to be a Christian (Deut 4:2, 30:14, Mark
16:16,John 3:3-7, 8:58, 14:6, Rom 3:20, Phil 3:3, Jam 2:10, Rev 22:18-19) and yet
be under the Law which is impossible anyway (Rom 10:4).

God was and is gracious to let Man try to justify himself by absolute consistency
against his own standard, not God’s, and even this would be enough under the Law
(Mat 7:12). Remember however that what someone wants is a function of their
soul and not just the conscious mind and ultimately in eternity everybody wants
Salvation (Phil 2:11) which is indeed commanded as part of the Law (Mark 16:16,
John 3:7, 8:58). Keeping the Law is not fulfilling it (Mat 22:40, Rom 10:4). Trying
to keep the Law is what Man by default always chooses (Gen 2:17, 3:5, Deut
30:14-15, Rom 2:14, 4:15, 10:3) and was chosen by the parabolical Adam (Gen
3:22) and is the Law and the ‘Golden’ rule (Mat 7:12).

Neither the ‘first’ and ‘second’ commandments or the Golden Rule, applies to
Christians as Law. Neither the equivalence of the Golden Rule or the two main
commandments apply as law as the Law does not apply to Christians (Rom 6:14,
10:4). We know that the Law does not apply to Christians (Isaiah 28:10-12, Jer
31:31-34, Rom 6:14, 10:4, Heb 8:9-13). The two great commandments apply to
Christians, though not as law, whilst the Golden Rule does not apply as fulfilled in
the flesh (Rom 3:19).

Does it not follow that since the commandments of the Law are the
commandments of Christ (Deut 30:10, John 1:1, 14) then therefore the Law applies
to a Christian (Deut 30:10, 31:26, Mat 23:3, 23, John 1:14, Rev 22:18-19)? No.
The resolution comes firstly from the fact that all commandments of the Law are