{"id":17671,"date":"2019-01-10T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17671"},"modified":"2019-01-10T09:25:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:25:08","slug":"jesus-and-the-bible-the-law-says-but-i-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17671","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and the Bible; The Law Says . . . But I Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jesus and the Bible<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Law Says . . . But I Say<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Thursday, January 10, 2019<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/es_wk3UUr6c\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nToday we will continue looking at the way Jesus used the Scriptures with some specific examples:<br \/>\nHe openly disagrees with Scriptures that emphasize non-essentials and \u201cmere human commandments\u201d that made their way into what are presented as divine commandments (see Mark 7:1-23 and almost all of Matthew 23).<br \/>\nHe consistently and openly flouts seemingly sacred taboos like not working on the Sabbath, not meeting with women, not eating with sinners and non-Jews, not touching lepers, and purity codes in general. He is shamed and criticized for ignoring: sacred hand washing (see Luke 11:38, for example); taboos against touching the dead, unclean people, and unclean foods; and the practice of stoning women adulterers. Jesus has Jewish common sense and can never be called a legalist or a \u201cconservative.\u201d In fact, he is accused of being a libertarian and a non-ascetic, instead of following the strict fasting of John the Baptist and his disciples (see Matthew 9:14).<br \/>\nJesus reduces the 613 clear biblical commandments down to two: love of God and love of neighbor (Matthew 22:34-40).<br \/>\nHe minimizes or even replaces commandments, as when he tells the rich young man that it is all fine and good that he has obeyed the Ten Commandments, but what he really needs to do is sell everything and give the money to the poor (see Mark 10:21).<br \/>\nHe omits troublesome verses with which he does not agree, as when he drops the final half verse from the Isaiah scroll when he first reads in the Nazareth synagogue (Luke 4:18-19). The audience would be familiar with the final line of Isaiah 61:2: \u201cto proclaim a day of vengeance from our God.\u201d Yet Jesus ends earlier with \u201cproclaims the Lord\u2019s day of favor.\u201d There he goes again, light and easy with the sacred text! Good Protestants would call that \u201cselectively quoting\u201d and pious Catholics would call it \u201ccafeteria Catholicism.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus uses Scripture in rather edgy ways to defend people, like when he says that David went into the temple and took the loaves of offering to feed his troops (Mark 2:26) or tells the story of the poor man who works on the Sabbath to get his donkey out of a ditch (Luke 14:5). His general principle seems to be summarized in his famous line that \u201cthe Sabbath was made for humanity, not humanity for the Sabbath\u201d (Mark 2:27). This sounds a lot like what many Christians would today call \u201cmere humanism\u201d or \u201csituation ethics.\u201d<br \/>\nJesus feels free to reinterpret the Law\u2014for example, when he says, six times in a row, \u201cThe Law says . . . but I say\u201d in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:21-48).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus and the Bible The Law Says . . . But I Say Thursday, January 10, 2019 Today we will continue looking at the way Jesus used the Scriptures with some specific examples: He openly disagrees with Scriptures that emphasize non-essentials and \u201cmere human commandments\u201d that made their way into what are presented as divine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17673,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17671\/revisions\/17673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}