To: Blzbba
The Jews believed God was appeased by obedience to rules. Once God established a set of rules, the Rabbis needed to "clarify" them for every day living. This is the result.
Religion by committee.
9 posted on
05/17/2005 12:46:03 PM PDT by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: AppyPappy
The Jews believed God was appeased by obedience to rules. Once God established a set of rules, the Rabbis needed to "clarify" them for every day living. This is the result...Religion by committee. Actually the prohibition on making a fire on the Sabbath is a Commandment, not Rabbinical in nature.
29 posted on
05/17/2005 1:04:33 PM PDT by
SJackson
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To: AppyPappy
It's awfully easy for you to ridicule, but given the Pentateuch, what would you expect them to do instead: just ignore the ones that seemed ambiguous and figure out ways to work around the others?
The reason the Jews believed God was appeased by obedience to rules was because he is. The only problem is, none of us can do so perfectly, so he's provided another Option.
30 posted on
05/17/2005 1:04:51 PM PDT by
mcg1969
To: AppyPappy
Did Yaweh have a gas oven?
128 posted on
05/17/2005 2:01:47 PM PDT by
toddlintown
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