post does not preach that the Pharisees were blameless. HISTORY says that Pharisees , over the time period between the return of Israel, when the N.T. picks up the story, had added the laws to the Torah. the tradition of the elders.
Who is "History", I never quoted "history" to come to my conclusion. I quoted the Prophets, Jesus and Paul. Many times.
every scholar and historian and Bible commentator and pastor I have ever read or heard acknowledges this, in some fashion.
I don't know what these other men preach, Jesus specifically warned about "Many" who come in His name. So I stick with scriptures.
you and a youtube video are the only ones I have ever heard claim the Pharisees were Satanists.
Now G9, I simply repeated the Word's of the Christ.
John 8:
44 Ye are of
your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
You preach, as do many of your friends, that the Pharisees were "trying to follow God's Commandments" and not their own religion as the Bible teaches.
This is one of many proofs in the Bible that expose this religious doctrine as false. This false teaching, as a foundation, leads to other falsehoods. "A little leaven leavens the whole lump".
Since I know this, it is incumbent upon me to warn those who have been infected with this lie. I can't help it is some people would rather believe the lie than of the truth.
by the way, I asked you earlier today, why were the Pharisees searching the Scriptures for eternal life if they disregarded them? you never answered.
I asked for you to please show me where I am twisting scriptures and help a brother out. You ignored me again, as you have done many times.
The scripture you refer to makes my point regarding the Pharisees.
They claimed to be "children of Abraham" but didn't do the works of Abraham.
Gen 26:
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
They claimed to be "children of God".
John 8:
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication;
we have one Father, even God.42 Jesus said unto them,
If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
They claimed to follow the Law of Moses.
John 5:
45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is
one that accuseth you,
even Moses, in whom ye trust.
46For had ye believed Moses,
ye would have believed me:
for he wrote of me.
47 But if ye believe not his writings,
how shall ye believe my words?
and again.
John 7:
19 Did not Moses give you the law,
and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?
They also claimed to believe in the Word of God.
John 5:
39 Search the scriptures;
for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and
they are they which testify of me.
If they really believed the scriptures they would have listened and obeyed God, like Zechariahs did.
This is why Jesus called them "liars" and "Hypocrites", vipers, and "children of satan". It's in your Bible, all you have to do is believe it.
So G9, you guys reject all these scriptures, and many many more, in order to preserve a belief that is false.
Why would you do that? What is so important about this insidious lie "The Pharisees were trying to "Earn" Salvation by following the letter of God's Law", that you and your friends would go to such lengths to protect it?
I just don't get it.