Love is at the heart of everything we do as Christians. Everything else we may be asked to do in our walk with God can be traced back to these first principles, which are simple but not simplistic. To me, this is the “Ockham’s Razor” moment of the Gospels. On these two commandments depends the whole law and the prophets” (Matthew 22:35-40). And the second is like it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. This is the greatest and the first commandment. Matthew’s Gospel, a scholar of the law asks Jesus which is the “great commandment in the law.” Jesus’ response distills the law of God into two precepts: “Thou shalt love the Lord your God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. As a scientific principle, it has been used by such thinkers as Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein, but I’m interested in what Ockham’s Razor can tell us about how to live. According to “Ockham’s Razor,” as the principle has come to be called, we should strip away whatever is unnecessary in our explanations for things. There is a famous principle developed by the medieval writer William of Ockham which states, in essence, that unnecessary complexity should be avoided.
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