Mark 2:23-28 And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain. The Pharisees were saying to Him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And He said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry; how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. “So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
Jesus puts forth the idea that god can be flexible depending on need, and is not overly rigorous in the interpretation of law. The old testament gives the impression that god was willing to overlook a great deal if it promoted his plans. So god is flexible and willing to be considerate when judging a person's deeds. Which should be a very strong reminder to any believer who tells another person that they are doomed to hellfire and that this makes them glad or gives them comfort. Maybe usurping god's judgment is one of those areas that he isn't lenient towards.
Jesus puts forth the idea that god can be flexible depending on need, and is not overly rigorous in the interpretation of law. The old testament gives the impression that god was willing to overlook a great deal if it promoted his plans. So god is flexible and willing to be considerate when judging a person's deeds. Which should be a very strong reminder to any believer who tells another person that they are doomed to hellfire and that this makes them glad or gives them comfort. Maybe usurping god's judgment is one of those areas that he isn't lenient towards.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
