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To: NYer

Matt 15: 3 - 9 “Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of G-d for the sake of your tradition? For G-d said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to G-d,’ he is not to ‘honor his father’ with it. Thus, you nullify the word of G-d for the sake of your traditions. You hypocrites! Isaiah was right about you: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’

Jesus has a word for people that place tradition on equal ground with Scripture: hypocrite.


10 posted on 07/11/2010 11:26:06 AM PDT by ziravan ("Are you better off now than you were 4 trillion dollars ago?")
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To: ziravan
One man made tradition is to suppose that when Jesus said "for the sake of your tradition," he was talking about ALL tradition.
14 posted on 07/11/2010 11:37:41 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (O Maria, sine labe concepta, ora pro nobis qui ad te confugimus.)
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