Its in TWO Gospels

Submitted by Charlotte (United States), May 2, 2007 at 01:37

Donvan, I heard it from no Muslim. I found it myself as your sister SHOULD have, considering we are equal in education. My BA is from Carroll College of Wisconsin in Religious studies and Philosophy of Ethics. My M.Div is from Marquette University of Milwaukee in Christian theology. I too was ordained in September of 2001.

This is a heatedly debated verse which is paramount to the theologian because it is a fine example of Jesus selectively reinterpreting mosiac law. It's part of the paradox of his role as Christos, expecially in application to Irenaeus' recapitulation theory. As your sister should well know when the Jews were exiled from Israel and the temple fell, they expected a messiah who would be a warrior king that would deliver onto them their holy land. Christianity grafted itself undo Judaism under the lawful religion clause and in doing such presented a savior which did not fit messianic prophecy and more over, reinterpreted many of the laws, causing much debate with the Pharisees of the time. The passage I talk of is only ONE of many passages in which Jesus violates the role of benevolent savior and divine incarnation of Yhwh by refusing to follow judaic customs and simultaneously criticizing his brethren for not holding fast to it themselves.

In the event your sister tries to excuse the passages of Matthew 15:4-7 & Mark 7:9 by stating Jesus is exposing the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, please remind her of the many other examples in which that excuse does NOT apply such as Matthew 5:17-19, Luke16:17, John 10:35, Matthew 5:27, etc.

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