Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1John 3:23 This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

The Apostle John gives but one commandment here, not many commandment(s), or many principle(s) of the Old Law, but why? Because Adam and Eve the first humans on earth were not burden with many rules, laws, or doctrines, no! Jesus came to restore that which had been lost by Adam and Eve; God's perfect loving ruler-ship over the human race.

Although, to a world that is interwoven from its foundation with many laws, and which cannot exist, or function without those many laws it seems foolish to be ruled by love> God does not need, but one law to govern, and that law is love, for He is love. The simplistic nature of such a statement to the world, and it many elite judicial systems appear absolutely foolish. Yet, it is God’s will, and His reality for human race to live according to love. Those that the apostle John was speaking to faced death for walking in love, without protection of human judicial laws, moreover, the laws of nations were used against them often so it was no easy course to walk in love.

John knew the power of Law he had witnessed his Lord and Master crucified by Roman laws, he had witnessed thousands of his brothers and sisters deaths at hands of those wheeling the law, and yet under all this pressure John did not succumb to the efforts of false brothers to once again enslave the body of Christ Jesus under the Old Law.

There is no fear in love; John would not create a protectionist mentality in the body of Christ through his teachings under the direction of God’s Holy Spirit.