"Questionable Traditions"

Thursday, September 25, 2014

"You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your traditions!" (Mark 7:9) The Pharisees must have been bewildered as they listened to Jesus so easily condemn their traditions. "What's wrong with tradition?" Much of them are built upon the law; a law this wandering rabbi professes to believe in. But that's the problem: only most of the traditions of the Pharisees were biblical. The remainder was simply a historical fabrication. There's nothing wrong with tradition, but when it is mistaken for divine inspiration, it becomes idolatry. In verse thirteen of our chapter, according to Jesus, tradition/idolatry causes us to "nullify the word of God" (Mark 7:13)

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