There are many rules, probably too many to keep track of them all, and sometimes they come into conflict with one another. When obedience to two or more rules becomes mutually exclusive, it's most important to obey the most important rule. For example, I'm supposed to blog every day, before midnight, but something more important came up, so my blog got put on the back burner. I suppose, then, that it's important to know what the most important law(s) is/are. Fortunately, Jesus Christ was very clear on that front.
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. - Matthew 22:37-39
Basically, love God and love your neighbors. Everything else is secondary. As long as we continue following those first and greatest two commandments, we're obeying the most important rules. So, whenever there's a conflict, we can always fall back of those core principles and know that our morals are in the right place.
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