tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post7115364219980040479..comments2023-10-09T03:39:02.388-06:00Comments on Expository Lutheran: Augenschein RighteousnessBror Ericksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06913133289813136695noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-13763825131128042832011-08-01T11:06:29.391-06:002011-08-01T11:06:29.391-06:00Just a foot note here, because this is a common er...Just a foot note here, because this is a common error. The Pharisees did not make 600+ laws to keep from breaking the 10 Commandments. There are 618 laws in the Torah. All 618 are God given. They are summarized in spirit in the 10 Commandments, just as the 10 Commandments are summarized in: Love God with all your heart strength, soul and might, and your neighbor as yourself. The Pharisees made far more than 600 laws, they made thousands of them. The Talmud is a compilation of these laws designed to keep from breaking the 618 law of Moses.<br /><br />Your point is completely valid, of course, but leave it to a lawyer to pick nits.<br /><br />By the way, a lot of the disputes between Jesus and the Pharisees can be brought into context by looking at the laws that are today found in the Talmud. For example, there was dispute between the Rabbis about what to do if your donkey falls into a pit on the sabbath. Some say it's illegal to pull him out, but okay to put pillows in the pit to make the poor beast comfortable. The majority position, however is that it is legal to pull the donkey out on the Sabbath. This is the context behind Jesus statement in Matthew 12:9-14. The Pharisees knew he was right, but he used this to show how they violated God's law to keep their own add-ons to the laws of Moses.<br /><br />A bit of trivia for the day.Scottydognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-2572710032704475192011-08-01T09:21:13.989-06:002011-08-01T09:21:13.989-06:00“It is a game that occupies itself with making it ...“It is a game that occupies itself with making it hard to find a drink and lets the financial industry rob the poor blind as it allows for usury.”<br /><br />I just caught this one.<br /><br />Oh MAN, you are singing my song here. Your probably the ONLY other person I’ve heard have the nuts to say that!<br /><br />BRAVO! And AMEN!Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13387712441394419154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-86115498117191608812011-08-01T09:20:45.614-06:002011-08-01T09:20:45.614-06:00“It is a game that occupies itself with making it ...“It is a game that occupies itself with making it hard to find a drink and lets the financial industry rob the poor blind as it allows for usury.”<br /><br />I just caught that one.<br /><br />Oh MAN, you are singing my song here. Your probably the ONLY other person I’ve heard have the nuts to say that!<br /><br />BRAVO! And AMEN!Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13387712441394419154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8261814012053869943.post-5835330794890654252011-08-01T09:18:18.238-06:002011-08-01T09:18:18.238-06:00Bror,
In relation to this: I’ve been reading, mo...Bror,<br /><br />In relation to this: I’ve been reading, more for fun, a book that’s been out for a while “Drinking With Calvin and Luther” by Jim West. Yes it is by a reformed guy but worth the reading about the subject. It basically goes through the freedom of it from Luther through even the Puritans, etc… A lot of nice anecdotes and stories worth a chuckle or two. <br /><br />However, after he details “how it was”, even during the Puritan’s time what began to occur to me as an American Christian in the year 2011+ was just how foreign it was to me. The air they breathed was rather free from this idea of abstaining from “God’s good gifts” and it occurred to me that we today both secular and the church in the largest since more closely resembles Medieval at best or Islam at worse on this and other pressing issues. Our society is MORE pressed with “laws” about “how to behave and be” than any I can conceive, both secular and pseudo Christian. You’d have to read the book before you realize, “hey this sounds utterly foreign to me”. <br /><br />E.g. one of the early governors under the Puritans was dealing with some drunkenness in the township so he created some early abstaining promoting like laws. The pastor, which had weight back then under Puritans, wrote him and harshly warned him in an almost Luther moment about making behavior controlling laws and denying God’s good creatures to folks, that it would indeed provoke God (in a negative way).<br /><br />You would NEVER get that by in large from modern pastors, especially outside of the Lutheran church. <br /><br />Have you ever noticed that even now when pastors begin to rediscover the freedom of the Gospel around cigerettes or booze or other that they ALWAYS have to throw a hidden legal caveat back in the mix! Something like after a long discussion about this freedom, “….now that doesn’t mean you can go and get drunk…”. While all would agree with that it can be left unstated being obvious, but the secret Pharisee JUST CAN’T RESIST. It’s kind of like the fearful “but” put in when too much 200 proof Gospel is preached, they JUST CAN’T RESIST when all is said and done. Such exhibit that they REALLY don’t believe the Gospel nor its freedom. One can always “finger” the Pharisee in the group during such discussions, they’ll throw in the “but…” or “legal restraint they hallucinate that helps” or “change subject quickly” lest too much freedom be discussed. They are always the wet blanket “mom”/lawyer of the group.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13387712441394419154noreply@blogger.com