Loophole Religion
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Loopholes
Loopholes
Ways around the rules that technically don’t break the rules.
Ways around the rules that technically don’t break the rules.
Hypocrites, Whitewashed tombs
Hypocrites, Whitewashed tombs
Story of Jesus, Peter’s View Point, Written by John Mark
Story of Jesus, Peter’s View Point, Written by John Mark
Gospel of Mark
Gospel of Mark
Mark was documenting Peter’s experience with Jesus
Mark was documenting Peter’s experience with Jesus
“The time promised by God has come at last!” he announced. “The Kingdom of God is near! Repent of your sins and believe the Good News!”
Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath.
But the teachers of religious law who had arrived from Jerusalem said, “He’s possessed by Satan, the prince of demons. That’s where he gets the power to cast out demons.”
and they ran throughout the whole area, carrying sick people on mats to wherever they heard he was.
Wherever he went—in villages, cities, or the countryside—they brought the sick out to the marketplaces. They begged him to let the sick touch at least the fringe of his robe, and all who touched him were healed.
One day some Pharisees and teachers of religious law arrived from Jerusalem to see Jesus.
They noticed that some of his disciples failed to follow the Jewish ritual of hand washing before eating.
(The Jews, especially the Pharisees, do not eat until they have poured water over their cupped hands, as required by their ancient traditions.
So the Pharisees and teachers of religious law asked him, “Why don’t your disciples follow our age-old tradition? They eat without first performing the hand-washing ceremony.”
Jesus replied, “You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’
For you ignore God’s law and substitute your own tradition.”
Then he said, “You skillfully sidestep God’s law in order to hold on to your own tradition.
For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.’
Christians don’t honor their father and mother because Moses told us to.
Christians don’t honor their father and mother because Moses told us to.
Christians honor their fathers and mothers because Jesus instructed us to love one another the way he loved us.
Christians honor their fathers and mothers because Jesus instructed us to love one another the way he loved us.
For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and ‘Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.’
But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—
In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents.
If we hurt or offend people and use our loophole to get “forgiveness” from God but don’t address that person or address the offense with the offended...
If we hurt or offend people and use our loophole to get “forgiveness” from God but don’t address that person or address the offense with the offended...
And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”
Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead.
“The time promised by God has come at last!” he announced. “The Kingdom of God is near! Repent of your sins and believe the Good News!”
Breakdown
Breakdown
You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
Do you ever try to figure out how close you can get to sin without actually sinning?
Do you ever try to figure out how close you can get to sin without actually sinning?
Do you believe their a ritual that makes you right with God while removing your responsibility to make things right with others?
Do you believe their a ritual that makes you right with God while removing your responsibility to make things right with others?
Do feel more guilty about missing church than mistreating someone at work?
Do feel more guilty about missing church than mistreating someone at work?
Are you banking on the myth that God has short-term memory loss?
Are you banking on the myth that God has short-term memory loss?
Kingdom of Conscience, Law of Christ, To love others as God through Christ has treated you
Kingdom of Conscience, Law of Christ, To love others as God through Christ has treated you
What does love require of me?
What does love require of me?
What does love require of us?
What does love require of us?
Did you grow up with any religious traditions that, looking back, made God seem small and petty?
Did you grow up with any religious traditions that, looking back, made God seem small and petty?
Are you inclined to believe that confessing your sins to God makes things right between you and God, regardless of weather or not you’ve made things right with the person you sinned against?
Are you inclined to believe that confessing your sins to God makes things right between you and God, regardless of weather or not you’ve made things right with the person you sinned against?
Jesus accused religious leaders of nullifying the intent of God’s command with made-up traditions (Mark 7.13) Can you think of any modern-day examples of this?
Jesus accused religious leaders of nullifying the intent of God’s command with made-up traditions (Mark 7.13) Can you think of any modern-day examples of this?