Loving God and your neighbour is enough to be pleasing to God; and loving God indeed means keeping His commandments.
But loving God and our neighbour - keeping God's commandments - looked very different in ancient Israel to how God expects it to look now this side of the cross.
It's like, the way an adult expresses love will be quite different in practice to the way it looked when he was a child, even though it may be the same in principle.
So when the Gospel went out among the Gentiles, loving God and one's neighbour didn't involve Gentiles literally becoming Torah Observant Proselytes to Judaism - but neither would it have been condoned if they'd carried on treating one another in their old pagan, fleshly ways.
But loving God and our neighbour - keeping God's commandments - looked very different in ancient Israel to how God expects it to look now this side of the cross.
It's like, the way an adult expresses love will be quite different in practice to the way it looked when he was a child, even though it may be the same in principle.
So when the Gospel went out among the Gentiles, loving God and one's neighbour didn't involve Gentiles literally becoming Torah Observant Proselytes to Judaism - but neither would it have been condoned if they'd carried on treating one another in their old pagan, fleshly ways.
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