Mat 12:9 states After departing from that place he went into their synagogue; 10 and, look! a man with a withered hand! So they asked him, “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath?” that they might get an accusation against him. 11 He said to them: “Who will be the man among YOU that has one sheep and, if this falls into a pit on the sabbath, will not get hold of it and lift it out? 12 All considered, of how much more worth is a man than a sheep!
Some people say that Jesus implied that you can break the laws of Jehovah if your life is in danger citing Mat 12:9 as an example.
The question now is, Is “saving the sheep on Sabbath” a violation of God’s laws? The answer is No, because Jesus said “So it is LAWFUL to do a fine thing on the sabbath.”
Saying that Jesus implied that men can break God’s laws when their lives are in danger mean that they are saying that Jesus sinned, which is not true.
Saving a life on Sabbath is NOT a violation of God, so Jesus did not sin.
2007-01-19 05:53:48 · 11 answers · asked by trustdell1 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I could avoid a serious auto accident by running a red light, I would probably do that even though I might get a ticket for breaking the law. If I could save a person’s life by telling a lie, I would do probably do that, too. If I were stranded with no available food except for unbled meat, I might eat it. I wouldn’t WANT to break any of those laws, but common sense tells me the “good” “the fine thing” outweighs the gravity of the sin in such cases. Perhaps that is how David felt when he and his men ate the loaves of presentation which Jesus said was “NOT LAWFUL for him to eat.”
He said to them: “Have YOU not read what David did when he and the men with him got hungry? 4 How he entered into the house of God and they ate the loaves of presentation, something that it was NOT LAWFUL for him to eat, nor for those with him, but for the priests only? 5 Or, have YOU not read in the Law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple treat the sabbath as not sacred and continue guiltless? 6 But I tell YOU that something greater than the temple is here. 7 However, if YOU had understood what this means, ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice,’ YOU would not have condemned the guiltless ones
23 “Woe to YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU give the tenth of the mint and the dill and the cumin, but YOU have disregarded the weightier matters of the Law, namely, justice and mercy and faithfulness. These things it was binding to do, yet not to disregard the other things. 24 Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but gulp down the camel!
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2007-01-19 15:48:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jesus fulfilled the law, by keeping or obeying all the commandments from God.
The sabbath laws did not exclude helping people.
It was the Jewish traditions or man made laws that Jesus ignored.
It was the Jewish traditions that made Jehovah's word invalid, or burdensome.
It is like a parent telling the babysitter that their child can not to play in the street and a babysitter telling the child 'not to leave the yard'
Though the babysitter had good intentions, it goes beyond his authority as a sitter.
2007-01-19 14:35:02 · answer #2 · answered by TeeM 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one sins.
The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.
If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.
How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?
It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.
One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.
Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.
If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.
If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.
How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.
Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.
If this is the case and we are perfect creations of a perfect God then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.
How likely is that????
Think about it.
The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.
Love and blessings
don
2007-01-19 13:58:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus never taught that one's life (or another's) was more important than one's integrity and obedience to God. The account of Matthew 12:1-12 certainly does not teach that...
What Jesus' contemporary critics (and some today apparently) forgot was that the Jewish Mosaic Law was a command of God; it did *NOT* devolve from the opinions of those Pharisaicial religious leaders. As the perfect Son of God, Jesus knew better than anyone exactly what behavior did or did not demonstrate proper subjection to Jehovah and to that Law, including its provisions regarding the Sabbath.
Jesus never violated the actual sabbath law.
What do the Scriptures teach about the relative importance of integrity and the earthly life a human might now cherish?
(Matthew 10:28) And do not become fearful of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather be in fear of him that can destroy both soul and body
(Matthew 16:25) For whoever wants to save his soul will lose it; but whoever loses his soul for my sake will find it.
(Luke 12:4,5) Do not fear those who kill the body and after this are not able to do anything more. But I will indicate to you whom to fear: Fear him who after killing has authority to throw into [the grave without hope of resurrection]
(Luke 17:33) Whoever seeks to keep his soul safe for himself will lose it, but whoever loses it will preserve it alive.
(Revelation 12:11) And they conquered ...because of the word of their witnessing, and they did not love their souls even in the face of death.
2007-01-19 14:01:46 · answer #4 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not healing on the Sabbath was a man made rule not religious rule
2007-01-19 13:59:09 · answer #5 · answered by travelguruette 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus never sins its just a fact
2007-01-19 13:57:45 · answer #6 · answered by couriouscat156 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Without credible evidence to reasonably prove the historical existence of Jesus, it's hard to believe he existed, much less did anything at all.
2007-01-19 14:01:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wonder if you are driving home from church and hit an animal that is crossing the road, and decide to save it by taking it to the vet...
only to find out the vet's office is closed...
is the vet guilty of sin?
2007-01-19 13:59:40 · answer #8 · answered by ÜFÖ 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Saving lives.
2007-01-19 13:57:16 · answer #9 · answered by ManhattanGirl 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How should one answer exactly? "I agree" ?
2007-01-19 13:58:55 · answer #10 · answered by wildkid740 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋