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A gentleman in my Men's Bible Study group brought up an interesting question, which I felt worth sharing with the learned folks at Landover.
We were studying Mark 7, with the point being that we don't need to worry about Kosher dietary laws because only things from INSIDE a man make him unclean. However, Jacob Williams noted something of interest.
If Jesus said that we shouldn't concern ourselves with hand-washing before eating, could that make our culture's fastidious hand-washing actually a sin? And could it also prove that so-called "germs" do NOT cause disease?
Is it possible that all those hand-washing signs in restaurant restrooms are actually encouraging the workers to defile themselves, by presenting an outward clean appearance as whited sepulchres, while within they are naught but rot and decay?
We were studying Mark 7, with the point being that we don't need to worry about Kosher dietary laws because only things from INSIDE a man make him unclean. However, Jacob Williams noted something of interest.
Mark 7
1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
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14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
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14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
Is it possible that all those hand-washing signs in restaurant restrooms are actually encouraging the workers to defile themselves, by presenting an outward clean appearance as whited sepulchres, while within they are naught but rot and decay?
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