When you stop to consider Jesus' prime enemy and main adversary was the clergy and religion of the day, there may be some present day bewilderment. He chastised them for putting themselves and their rules between the people and God (whom He tried to bring back to the people in a personal relationship). Yet the later gentile church did, and still does, the same as the rabbis of the day, furthering God from the people and inserting themselves and their rules between the people and God Himself, once again following the traditional human ways of power and government. Would it strike anyone as odd to be sitting in pews expecting to hear Jesus' truth from clergy who would be condemning themselves if they were honest about who Jesus struggled with, and why?
© ...timothyu
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