Question for all

[Jeremiah Ames]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

 

[Rival]

THREAD MOVED TO GENERAL RELIGIOUS DEBATES.​

 

[Unveiled Artist]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

To worship God through sacrifice and service. First commandment really covers it all.

 

[Jesster]

A question for all? Okay.

I don't value any of the teachings in the bible. But that's beating a dead horse at this point.

 

[Altfish]

As an atheist, I'd say ...

Matthew 7:12
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you:
do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets

aka The Golden Rule

 

[Harel13]

And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

Somehow I have a feeling that anyone familiar only with the OAHSPE Bible will have a completely different answer to this question. Just sayin'.

 

[HeatherAnn]

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

1) Love God, others and self - greatest commandments above all.
2) “The kingdom (realm/experience) of God is WITHIN you.”

 

[Gargovic Malkav]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

It helped me give meaning to my life.
Without it my existence feels like a cage.

 

[bobhikes]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

The single most important teaching is reading otherwise your doomed to follow false prophets, Unless god speaks to you directly

 

[exchemist]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

Love thy neighbour as thyself.

 

[Heyo]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

According to the bible (and coming directly from the highest authority) it is Marc 12:28 - 31.

"28 One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”

29 “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.a]">[a] 30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’b]">[b] 31 The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’c]">[c] There is no commandment greater than these.”"

 

[Secret Chief]

A question for all? Okay.

I don't value any of the teachings in the bible. But that's beating a dead horse at this point.

I'm beating it with you.

 

[stvdv]

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

Love Thy neighbor ("as Thyself" part can be added IF you are not a masochist)

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

I think there are a few ways to measure "important," but if we're talking about importance in terms of how Christianity's form evolved over time, then probably Matthew 16:19:

"I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

 

[MNoBody]

"Love"... the rest is merely commentary to indicate both the presence of and the absence of this "invisible" quality.
which seems so hard for people to define or to do.... which is odd.

 

[Rival]

Not 'most important' as I can't put one teaching over another, really, but this is pretty much the final word for me:

For this commandment which I command you this day, is not concealed from you, nor is it far away.
It is not in heaven, that you should say, "Who will go up to heaven for us and fetch it for us, to tell [it] to us, so that we can fulfil it?"
Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, "Who will cross to the other side of the sea for us and fetch it for us, to tell [it] to us, so that we can fulfil it?"
Rather,[this] thing is very close to you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can fulfil it.

(Devarim 30:11-14)

The Torah is doable, it is close, and it is good

 

[Nakosis]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

No one's worth is greater, no one's is less.

 

[Dawnofhope]

Jesus was essentially quoting from Deuteronomy when He spoke of loving God with our whole being as the greatest commandment. The second greatest commandment was of course to love your neighbour as yourself.

 

[sun rise]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

The two Greatest Commandments

 

[Nimos]

To answer this question you only need to know that there is a bible.
And it can be whichever bible you are familiar with.

Question:

What is the single MOST IMPORTANT teaching in the bible?

Don't believe everything you read