book in the bible to get that degree.
Or how you have spent 4 or more decades in this study of the bible, as an adult.
Or how your formal education and your decades of personal study, teaching, and on occassion preaching; and has resulted in numerous expressions, (like those that follow), of your "true" faith:
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Make no friendship with an angry man (TigerBoardDrMatt),
And with a furious man (TigerBoardDrMatt) do not go,
Lest you learn his ways
And set a snare for your soul.
Of course, you will, once again, fail to give an answer, attack other(s) to deflect attention from your massive failures, claim to know more than you actually know, and declare your better understanding and moral superiority, when you have failed the most basic tests of knowing God and love for God.
Here is what God says about your New Testament dismissal of His commands:
"If you love Me, keep My commandments."
"He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."
"If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love."
"For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome."
"This is love, that we walk according to His commandments."
"But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do."
"Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God"
You reject God when you reject His ... HIS ... New Testament COMMANDS. They are not optional suggestions.
"Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments."
"He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."
"Now he who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him."
"By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments."
You hate the commands of God and His children who admit His commands and keep them.
"So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?”
He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.”
He said to him, “Feed My lambs.”
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?”
He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.”
He said to him, “Tend My sheep.”
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?”
And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.”
Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep."
Not optional.
Also not optional:
"I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry."
"Preach the word! ... Convince, rebuke, exhort"
Not
Optional.
Not up for debate.
Not dependent upon man's consent. Done on God's supreme authority.
"he who rejects this does not reject man, but God"