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Thank you for your blessing; may it return to you twofold.

I don’t generally post on the religious forums, but I regularly read them. I have, believe me, seen your posts and read many of them. Your wisdom and godly insights have been inspirations to me—thank you.

It’s no wonder the same issues must be repeatedly addressed, yet seem never to yield profitable results. Some errors are simply pernicious.

For an example, look at Jesus’s interactions with the Pharisees. Although it was Christ Himself who argued with them, there is no Biblical evidence that a single Pharisee [of those Jesus directly confronted] ever repented. Embracing their error was more important to them than embracing Christ.

What, specifically, was their error? It was the use of man-made traditions to set aside the actual Word of God.

Does this happen today? Absolutely.

To give but one example: Jesus was asked, by the Samaritan woman—John 4— where true worship should take place. Specifically, the woman asked if God should be worshipped, ‘on this mountain or in Jerusalem.’

Jesus answered, neither. Rather, the time of physical-location based worship was over, and the time of spiritual/heart-based worship had arrived. Iow, from now on, true worship would depend not on place, but on being done, “in spirit and truth.”

Do some deny Jesus’s teaching on this subject?

Yes, some do.

Some say that when Jesus said true worship should be done in spirit and truth, what he *meant* was, ‘in Rome.’

Put another way, some turn Jesus’s words on their head, and then disregard them completely.

This was the Pharisees’ error. It’s still with us today. The allure of discounting God’s Word in favor of a more appealing man-made tradition is simply too great for some. Evidently, it always will be.

[Note to any taking offense at this post. It is now publicly acknowledged that a Gay Mafia exerts tremendous influence at the highest levels in Vatican City. It is impossible to argue that “in spirit and truth,” means condoning the Sodom and Gomorrah practices of a Gay Mafia. The day Rome completely and utterly purges the highest echelons of its hierarchy from the malevolent influence of the Gay Mafia is the day worship, “in spirit and truth,” can make a comeback there.]