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(2 Cor. 4, 6–15; Matt. 22, 35–46) The Lord proposed the commandment about love for God and neighbors and immediately supplemented it with the teaching of His sonship to God and Divinity. What is this for? For the fact that true love for God and people is only possible under the influence of faith in the Divinity of Christ the Savior, in the fact that He is the incarnate Son of God. Such faith arouses love for God, for how can one not love God, who loved us so much, Who did not spare His only Son, but gave Him up for us? She brings this love to the fullness of completion or to what it seeks, and love seeks a living union. To achieve this union, one must overcome the feeling of God's truth punishing sin; without this it is scary to approach God. This feeling is overcome by the conviction that the truth of God is satisfied by the death on the cross of the Son of God; this conviction comes from faith; therefore, faith opens the way to love God. This is the first. Second, faith in the Divinity of the Son of God, for us who became incarnate, suffered and was buried, provides an example of love for others; for this is love when a lover lays down his life for those he loves. It also gives strength to show such love. To have such love, you need to become a new person, instead of an egoistic one, a selfless one. Only in Christ does man become a new creature; in Christ there is one who, by faith and grace-filled rebirth through the Holy Sacraments, accepted with faith, is united with Christ. It follows from this that those who without faith hope to preserve at least moral order expect this in vain. All together; a person cannot be divided. All we have to do is satisfy him. You might be interested in: