1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 «This shall be
the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing.
Not exact matches
If the
law says don't drink, rest on Sunday (or the sabbath, one
of the ten commandments) or don't touch
lepers, or tithe, give offerings, or anything you wan na add then Jesus certainly didn't follow all
of it and even broke it, it would seem.
He fights with every religious leader
of his day (they are representives
of God), hangs out with some
of the lowest people in society (drunks, prostitutes, tax collectors), healed people on the sabbath (they see this as against the
law), healed
lepers (also against the
law), accepts some Gentiles and heals them (outside his actual mission), died for all
of «humanity», etc..
I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult
of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches
lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages»
of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord
of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept
of the
Law into one
of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».