Subj : Today's Thought
To   : George Pope
From : Newborn
Date : Fri Sep 30 2005 20:49:00

  Re: Today's Thought
  By: George Pope to Newborn on Thu Sep 29 2005 02:19 pm

 > N> "Then drew near unto Him all the publicans and sinners for to hear Him.  
 > N> the Pharises and scribes murmured, saying.  This man receiveth sinners an
 > N> eateth with them (Luke 15:1,2)"
 > 
 > Everybody seems to mis-state it -- you should say, "And the [other]
 > Pharisees,and the scribes murmured. . . " because Jesus, too, WAS a Pharisee
 > albeit a more liberal one than those he castigated for their ways of
 > intolerance and dogmatic bigotry!
 > 
   Jesus was a Pharisee?   What is your evidence for that?  The word 'Pharisee'
   means 'seperate', and describes a group of legalistic leaders who zealously
   kept the law in its smallest detail.  The Pharisees formed a self-righteous,
   self-denying Jewish sect that was very vindictive of those who didn't teach
   the Law.

   Jesus never belonged to this sect, and therefore could never have been a
   of it.  He condemned their traditions and disputed their interpretation
   of the Law.  In fact the Pharisees were His mortal enemies who led the
   drive to have Him exectued.  Jesus FULFILLED the Law with His Crucifixtion
   and Resurrection and IS the one who can meet the qualifications for being
   our Savior.

   You say that Jesus was a Pharaisees then how do you explain His breaking
   of the so many dictates of the Pharaisees (i.e.  Healing on the Sabbath,
   associating with the 'unwashed' and 'Publicans', touching the Leperous,
   performing miracles as God, etc.)

   Besides to be a Pharaisee one had to be married according to Jewish
   tradition (i.e. Paul).

Newborn

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