Think about the days of the 10 commandments. That whole era was like training a pet, let's say a pup as a familiar example. This good, that bad. The people who wrote the books and the people who read them were like the pups. They learned good/bad but did not question why. Like pups, they often strayed from the path sniffing out something that interested them more. They were very basic models of humanity.
Along comes Jesus with a superior mind and the ability to think. He stood out, especially in contrast with the dog trainer priests who were trained pups themselves, the blind leading the blind. A lot of what Jesus taught went right over the heads of the pup people but they seemed to grasp He was at least different, especially because He showed by example what good was so they could compare it to the default ways of man. Cause and effect. He didn't teach them to sit and roll over in ways pleasing to God, but why it was advantageous to do so compared to their traditional ways.
This worked for a short time until of course the gentiles basically went back to the old dog training ways of do this and never mind why, and the blind once again lead the blind. Such is life according to the will of man.
© ...timothyu
Along comes Jesus with a superior mind and the ability to think. He stood out, especially in contrast with the dog trainer priests who were trained pups themselves, the blind leading the blind. A lot of what Jesus taught went right over the heads of the pup people but they seemed to grasp He was at least different, especially because He showed by example what good was so they could compare it to the default ways of man. Cause and effect. He didn't teach them to sit and roll over in ways pleasing to God, but why it was advantageous to do so compared to their traditional ways.
This worked for a short time until of course the gentiles basically went back to the old dog training ways of do this and never mind why, and the blind once again lead the blind. Such is life according to the will of man.
© ...timothyu
