text: There are gods (let's say) and humans who have no authority over us, and whom it is not right for us to serve. So though I agree with you that orthodox Catholicism understands JC to have "full authority," as you say, it's not on the grounds of his humanity and divinity, however full they might be.
  
  And the "first commandment" that Jesus utters in Matthew 22, in reply to a question, is in fact his quoting from Deuteronomy 6, and is understood to be a quotation from Torah, and not his own original words.
  
  Anyway that's not to the point. My point is twofold. First, in modern English, we tend not to think one can "command" someone to love, no matter the object; true love can only be a freely offered commitment of relationship, springing from the lover's heart. Secondly, we have come to mistrust a relationship called "love" if it is between parties of very unequal power, and especially if the relative inequality of their power is always in view.