Love That Will Not Let Me Go
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able to make the choice in love.<br />
LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO<br />
A FRESH LOOK AT GENESIS<br />
M.M.NINAN<br />
There are only two laws in the Kingdom of <strong>Go</strong>d:<br />
Mat 22: 37-40 Jesus declared, “‘<strong>Love</strong> the Lord your <strong>Go</strong>d with all your heart and with all your<br />
soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is<br />
like it: ‘<strong>Love</strong> your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two<br />
commandments.”<br />
First commandment makes sure that every action is based on the <strong>Love</strong> of <strong>Go</strong>d which includes<br />
the whole creation in all dimensions. The second has a dialectics. You should love yourself<br />
to maintain yourself to do the work that is given to you.<br />
You should love your neighbor as<br />
youself so that he can do his work in dignity and love just like you. The moral error lies in<br />
loving oneself<br />
more than others creating an upside down world of hell.<br />
The Tree of Knowledge of <strong>Go</strong>od and Evil.<br />
The statements like “The knowledge of good and evil” is what is called a “merism.”<br />
merism is an expression of totality by the mention of polarity. You mention some opposites and<br />
it implies everything in between.<br />
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Examples of merism:<br />
<strong>Me</strong>rism is a figure of speech by which something is referred to by a conventional phrase that<br />
enumerates several of its constituents or traits.<br />
In the marriage vows: "for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health."<br />
Hook, line, and sinker. (To swallow something hook, line, and sinker means to swallow it<br />
completely.)<br />
High and low. (To search high and low means to look for something everywhere)<br />
Lock, stock, and barrel. (Referring to the different parts of a gun. As a mersim, it refers to the<br />
whole of any object)<br />
Flesh and bone. (Referring to the body).<br />
Search every nook and cranny. (Search everywhere).<br />
Sun, sea and sand. (Referring to a holiday destination).<br />
Young and old. (Describing all the population.)<br />
Heaven and hell,<br />
Near and far<br />
“Peace to the far and peace to the near,”<br />
“The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in,” meaning the Lord will take care of<br />
everything in your life wherever you are..<br />
Then “good and evil” is actually a merism which means “everything connected to good and<br />
evil.” Whenever a decision is to be taken, man will have a moral understanding of what it will<br />
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