According to the gospels, only the Roman authorities could carry-out executions.
Which is why I said "They (The Jewish Leadership) had him Executed. Meaning the Jews did not do this they turned him over to the state./Rome..
Jesus was weakening the faith of Jews in the Law of Moses by brazenly and publicly violating the rules for the Sabbath.
It wasn't the law of moses. The Law of moses says to kept the sabbath holy/set apart for the purposes of God which the primary being rest. Jesus for the purpose of bring God glory as per the law of moses did so by healing a man with nothing more than words.
no work was done outside the work Of God Himself. But the laws of tradition/wicked men in the name of God stated no efforts could be expended meaning the law of men were replacing the laws of God to the point where the corrupt religious leads could no longer see/understand that God himself was working with in the framework of what the law intended. They could not see that by expending the law to no activity whatsoever they were in violation of the law's primary purpose and that was to set the day aside for God. meaning those deed which serve God (not man) were not excluded here.
This was exactly what might have been expected from a false Messiah. The devil often dressed-up sin to seem like righteousness.
but again... to what end. Meaninghow does it serve satan to do a deed that will bring people closer to God? You will not allow yourself to lok beyond the sandels of the pharisees. That is your problem you have in your heart invalidated the gospel message and are looking for reasons to also invalidate it. You yourself point this out to me when you told me to look at this senerio from the point of the jewish leadership. Then admonished me for carrying on into the christian narritive.
Well here is your challenge look at it from the perspective of Christ. yes look at it from the christian narritive BECAUSE it is from that position that the gospel was written.
In the long run this miracle was done not by Christ but by God. and because it seemed to violate the sabbath showed how far the law of the pharisees and sadducees departed from the intent the law was given to moses. again Keep the Sabbath and make it holy. This was a big open invitation to stop the chores of living one day a week and honor God with it. Remember the charge from God was to keep the sabbath holy. The charge from the jewish leadership was to do not work on the sabbath. Jesus with a word made a man Whole and gave the work honor to God. this is the embodiment of doing a holy work on a day set aside for holy work. But again the kicker was God did the work through the word of Christ. so the work was sanctified meaning it was approved by God as being a work suitable for the sabbath.
But the evil leaders did not see this, they only saw a violation of their rules and not what God had intended. They could not see the hand of god in this. Because they were nt of God.
This was the reason for the remarks of Christ.
He knew doing nothing and leaving the sabbath as the jewish leadership established it was the true evil. The law as it stood was a wedge between the people and God. So Christ with power which only could come from God healed a life long cripple man whom everyone knew to be legit crippled. (argument could be made about christ healing amputee with this guy as he grew new limbs.) But again only by the word of Christ but by the power of God. Meaning if the pharisees and the leadership were not evil men they would have known the words of Christ =/= God's power alone. God had to ok or go along with the usage of this power. and if his power being used on the sabbath was wrong he would not have allowed this usage.
Which bring's us to Christ's comment. A house divide can not stand.
meaning the sabbath belonged to lucifer in it's current man made laws about doing no kind of work whatsoever. to the point they where enditing God himself for breaking this law of satan of doing no work on the sabbath.
So again why would Satan break his own house just to empower jesus to do a deed that futher undermined a religious authority Jesus/ God wanted gone?
To me, this defense made by Jesus seems pathetic. I must be missing something.
We probably aren't going to reach an agreement. I don't want to wear you out with endless arguing.
I think what you are missing is that the antichrist/satan is still under the authority of God. You seem to have too much greek and roman mythos ted up into your christian understanding of satan and his role. Satan is not a god he is not independent he can only work within the limits God himself allows.
IE Read the book of Job. Nothing in that book happened to job without careful measuring and consideration. Meaning satan was not allowed to go beyond what God allowed. Here too the antichrist is also limited to what God will allow. Meaning the antichrist could not do more than what God would allow. the anti christ could not do a good deed that would mortally wound the church by making it look like it came from God UNLESS that is what God wanted in the first place. and if it is as God wants it to play out.. then again how is it ultimately a bad thing? The panultimate goal is to worship and love God, and not religion Judaism became a method of worshiping the method of worship and had no room for God in it. if we the church can be mortally wounded by an anti-christ's good deed then we too have become the thing God hated about judaism.
