The Genesis Project
Genesis 2

Love your Neighbor

110 words · June 23, 2026

When God created the woman, the text doesn’t say that Adam worshipped God or gave thanks. The text simply shows that Adam loved her as himself.

Perhaps this is why the command to “love your neighbor as yourself” is said to be like the command to love God. Loving your neighbor rightly is precisely how you love God.

The only way to love your neighbor as yourself is to understand the most fundamental truth about all people, even the ones that you don’t like: they are “bone of my bone; flesh of my flesh.”

They are like you. They are not greater than you. They are not lesser than you.

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