Re: Honest Questions -
06-15-2009, 04:04 AM
Luke 6 IS an example of the Pharisees making up their own rules. All the Old Testament says is to not work on Sabbath. The Disciples just picked up some corn from a field to eat. This isn't really eating, but the Pharisees extended rules of how to keep the Sabbath, which is not from God, included not being allowed to pluck crops. Jesus was just letting them know that they were wrong on this point.
You want more proof that they added their own rules? Look, do even the tinsiest about of research on what the Pharisee party was and you'll find out that they were a sect that had a very long list of extra-Biblical commands they had to keep. Even the Bible says so:
Mark 7: 5Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
12And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Oh, and you clearly did not agree with my first point, because you said the only problem Jesus had with the Pharisees was that they wanted everyone to follow the commands of God fully, not that they were hypocrites.
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