Religious Legalism

Luke 14:1-6

One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son[a] or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” And they could not reply to these things.

The problem with religious legalism is not difficult to understand.  One modern example would be breaking a car window to save a pet on hot summer’s day.  Another example is trespassing on someone’s property to save someone from a fire.   Anyway, it’s easy to see why there are reasons to break just laws.   That was what Jesus was saying in the above paragraph.

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