Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
Mark 2:27
This released people from the many strict rules among Jews to be followed on the Sabbath.
___Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
Mark 2:27
This released people from the many strict rules among Jews to be followed on the Sabbath.___
Yep, agree. But he never threw the baby out with the bathwater. John sees the 10 commandments in his heavenly vision (Revelation 11:19) and of course in Acts 13, the gentiles ask Paul to come out “next sabbath” so they can hear more of what he is preaching.
Isaiah 66 even says when God recreates this earth, ALL FLESH will worship him “from Sabbath unto Sabbath”..so much for the Sabbaht being Jewish. that’s like saying don’t kill is Jewish, or steal, or lie.....
It’s really weak Bible scholarship......if you ask me.
That is correct. The rabbis implemented a meticulous set of man made rules for the Sabbath that were never meant to happen. They made the Sabbath of more importance than man himself. According to their logic God created man to observe a Sabbath He created instead of it a time for man to commune with Him. They emphasized the negative aspects of the Sabbath observance of restraining people which negated the positive outcome of continued refreshment from meditating on God and the blessing He has bestowed upon us.
In verse 28 He circles it back to the Author Who determines what is appropriate and what is not. That was Himself not the rabbis. The Sabbath was to fulfill a human need and not the power trip of religious leaders.