Liberality

[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Corban law

Makes religion an excuse for neglecting morality. A door opened wide to knavery and hypocracy by using things lawful, according to the rabbis, so relieving oneself of all obligation to give others what would be duty to give them. Fear of God taught by precepts of men. Human prescriptions and traditions were the guide of their religion, which they followed blindly, heedless of how far these "commandments" of men led them from the paths of true righteousness and godliness.

But Jesus had compassion on the poor multitude who were being mislead to their ruin by their blind spiritual guides. If the leaders be so helplessly wed to their errors that they can't be turned from them, let's at least tyr to help the comparatively ignorant victims.

Jesus came to fulfill and also to destroy. Ceremonialism was to be abolished, and all the eternal laws of morality were to be all in all.
Human conscience was to be delivered from the burden of outward ordinances, that they may be free to serve the living God, by keeping the one royal law of love.

And it's the duty of the church to stand fast in the liberty Christ designed and purchased for her , being jealous of all human traditions out of holy zeal for the divine will; shunning superstitions on the one hand and licentious freedom from godless liberalinism on the other.


Worshipping the gold at the temple rather than who the temple is symbolic of.

The messenger in the same way has nothing to do with the message. It's not the package that counts.

 

[Yab Yum]

I'm sorry for kindergarteners like me could you elaborate about what Corban law is?

 

[LiturgyInDMinor]

Are you speaking of Christian Liberty?

 

[Hentenza]

I'm sorry for kindergarteners like me could you elaborate about what Corban law is?

Corban gift depicted in Mark 7:11 which is a special gift given to God that can not be withdrawn. Jesus condemn it because some were giving this type of gifts while not caring for their parents.

 

[LiturgyInDMinor]

I"m now really confused apparently.

 

[Dark_Lite]

There's not a Wikipedia article on this. I feel so lost right now.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korban. Sneaky Ks. However, I'm still lost at the moment.

 

[b.hopeful]

There's not a Wikipedia article on this. I feel so lost right now.

Edit: Korban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sneaky Ks. However, I'm still lost at the moment.

To quote my daughter....No wiki, no thinky.

 

[Dark_Lite]

To quote my daughter....No wiki, no thinky.

Wikipedia is the source of all human information. Completely credible too. True story.

 

[laconicstudent]

*bangs his head against keyboard and whimpers as he tries to understand the thesis in this thread*

 

[winslow]

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[Citizen of the Kingdom]

Jesus was undoing the Pharisee's for honoring traditions over the commandments of God, mainly by placing traditions above the 10 commandments.(Matt 15) Swearing that what was given to them to do by the leaders was taken as law and making God of noneffect.(Matt 23)
Honor due to others was forfieted because of it.
(I liken it to lockerroom translations that places men in all translations but disallows women from their place alongside, but you can make of it what you like)
What the Corban law did was take the responsibilty away from the people to honor their father and mother by not looking after them. They were allowed to do that by pledging their money to the temple. The money then remained theirs until their death when it went to the temple and they were 'legally' removed of their duty of honoring father and mother.

The people that used the Corban law knew exactly what they were doing, but the religious leaders had said it was ok. If they did honor God it was in a superficial way that placed traditions of men as the right way. Outwardly (according to traditions) they were acting as commonly percieved as right, but inwardly (if they honored God over men) they were being untrue to their own selves and god. The outward act should be made to correspond to inward condition of mind. The crux of the matter is in beleiving outwardly the lies of the devil while inwardly accepting the truths of God, or in this age the truths of grace. (doublemindedness/duplicity/hypocricy)
It's hypocritical to conform outwardly to traditions set by "elders" for which there isn't an inward respect of the tradition. Dead works.