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I DON'T HAVE NEIGHBORS.

These days I feel like the Lawyer who after receiving an answer on what is the greatest commandment wonders who is their neighbor? My reasons are slightly different, I am just trying to wrap the fact that I have no idea who lives next to me. Don’t judge me yet am dwelling in an individualistic community and this is the norm,  so I am told: "it's just different”. What shall I do to inherit eternal life? Mathew which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus turns the question to him “what does the law say? How do you read it?  ‘‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. Do this and you will live. To justify his actions, he asked “who is my Neighbor” never mind he wants to test Jesus and see whether he understands the Law. So, the legal expert is confronted with a parable by Jesus and Just as the priest is looking for a loophole to avoid the inconvenience of helping his neighbo

CHRISTMAS: THE GREATEST CROSS CULTURAL MOVE.

Our savior is born.  God loved and decided to send His one and only son to save the world. Jesus had to leave his usual heavenly glory and come to earth.  What do you think were the differences between the host and the home culture?  He wasn't just a great teacher and a prophet I believe He was the son of God who took a bodily form and crossed to come to us.   I can guess that it was very different.  To make it worse Jesus did not just leave and enter the world.  He had to be born as a baby and experience normal aging.  He had to understand not just the culture but humanity.  Born as a baby and having to grow in a family and follow the usual stages of growth.  This was very different for him I guess.  He was therefore born within a culture with values, beliefs, and worldviews which some of them contradicted with those of where He came from.  Any contradictions you can guess?  So........ 1. He knew why He came; Jesus was keen to do the will of the father who sent