Great day- got to spend quality time with my wife (despite the long travel), rolled with Amir, his friends, and Project 2 students, and Xander and I started our first dive into Discipleship. To finish up our lesson on traditions and what the Bible says about it, Mark 7:1-13 shows Jesus viewpoint on a Jewish tradition twisted by the renowned people of their time. To sum it up, quoting from gotquestions.org: Jesus tells the Pharisees that their misuse of Corban was an evil rationale to avoid doing what they should. God never intended that the good principle of devoting something to the temple should be twisted to dishonor fathers and mothers. Ritual without reality is what the Pharisaic religion was all about. It was also ritual without righteousness and without relationship. Jesus taught that, without a personal relationship with God, ritual profits nothing, and the traditions of man should never usurp the authority of God’s Word. Read more: gotquestions.org/corban.html#ixzz3D8Ek5aHx
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 19:41:13 +0000
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