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Originally Posted by victorbravo BTW, the Matt. 22:40 quote also clearly establishes that the two commands are logically independent of each other (otherwise Jesus would have said something like: "on this one commandment the other necessarily follows"). | I think you proved my point by attempting to refute it. 
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Matthew 22:34-40
The Great Commandment
34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" 37And he said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets."
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JD, I won't use the head banging smiley, but I really think you are missing the point.
An analogy to what I perceive your point to be. My commands to a child:
"You shall, with great joy and thanksgiving, eat everything on the plate that I put there."
"And a second command, similar to the first (like unto it): finish your juice."
Just because I said "like unto it" doesn't mean one is
logically connected to the other. They are two separate commands, similar because they deal with consuming something, but the objects of the command are different.
That's as far as I can go. Follow David's advice and go back to the logic texts.