How many times our Lord would teach the Gospel to those eager to hear the Words of Salvation while many, not all, of the scribes and pharisees, though men of the cloth, were not men of the spirit.
These latter did not understand, yet they presumed to tell our Lord He was in error. One of Yeshua's most telling lessons on this subject is simple and to the point. He said had they not said they see, when they were actually blind, they would not be guilty, but having said they see their guilt remains.
May Yahweh have mercy and give light to those who yet walk in darkness, amen.
all that is so true.
the Pharisees remain in that state today.
yet we have a lot who profess they know the LORD who love the things of the Pharisees more than the LORD.
it's ironic that they admire the enemies of the cross and seek to emulate them.
but it's evidenced in their projecting the historical Pharisees traits and behavior toward Jesus and His real disciples onto Christians.
they prefer the things of the Pharisees because they believe it makes them more spiritual.
but because they are anti-intellectual, they are not even aware of what they have become.
they experience the bible, so to speak, by inserting themselves into every narrative.
taking to themselves what was never said to them, nor given to them.
they devise contrived manners of speech that sound spirutual, and
they strive to appear/sound outwardly religious to others.
The sages of the Talmud see a direct link between themselves and the Pharisees, and historians generally consider Pharisaic Judaism to be the progenitor of Rabbinic Judaism, that is normative, mainstream Judaism after the destruction of the Second Temple. All mainstream forms of Judaism today consider themselves heirs of Rabbinic Judaism and, ultimately, the Pharisees.
apparently they want the reality of what they love to go away from public view.
they don't mention Shaul much.
they don't like to experience the book of Galatians.
Galatians 2
11But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; so that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
babbling incoherently in gibberish seems spiritual.
but because they are anti-intellectual and anti-scholarship, they don't understand what the gift really was.
and they can't stand it if others do know.
endless religious speeches are not simple and to the point.
full-circle to the real neo-Pharisees projecting onto others what they themselves are.
huh.
