Deuteronomy Six Four - The First Letter of the Bible

In deuteronomy six four, we find enough o textual clues to tie this into the larger story line of the bible that takes us all the way back to the garden of eden. In first corinthians eight, 6, paul seems to be developing the shama to include the father and the son. One particular feature of the shma that we shouldn't miss is verse five, you shall love the lord your god. You know, it's god's singularity, his oneness. And what this means for the people of israel is just that they should obey him in an even worse situation than a dictator or tyrant. They obey with a love relationship on the basis