Posted by Lou Pilder on December 17, 2004, at 21:15:46
In reply to Re: Ancient Near Eastern Covenants » rayww, posted by MKB on December 17, 2004, at 19:27:56
MKB, You wrote,[...these 600 laws are called the Talmud. This is where the handwashing...along with things like not carrying a burden on the Sabbath...Jesus condemned the way the rabbis burdened the people with all these laws.
I am wondering if you have read from the book of Jeremiah , which is in what some call the Old Testament, the following:
[...Thus the Lord said to me; " Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem, and say to them, 'Hear the word of the Lord, you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalam, who enter by these gates. Thus says the Lord, 'Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in bythe gates of Jerusalem, nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers...].
Lou
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