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Misuse of law.	ROLCAM	04/24/06
When Jesus healed on a Sabbath, he broke the law. When he was crucified it was according to law. Indeed, it was said that the law required it. Your views, please.
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rosends		04/24/06
According to what I have learned, Jesus advocated breaking the sabbath to his disciples by telling them to pick grain. There are rules which allow one to save a life on the sabbath (it is an obligation, actually) but in neither the case of the blind man, nor in the case of the hungry disciples was there a life or death situation. [The blind mand healing was problematic more for the digging of dirt and making and applying mud than for the actual healing -- if my mom can get rid of a boo-boo by kissing it, then kissing it and healing it is not against the sabbath.] He was, then, guilty (on onlyu a superficial level -- Jewish legal guilt which demands punishment is complex and requires subtantially more process than the heresay or eyewitness testimoni of an involved party after a single infraction) according to Jewish law. The law which had him crucified was a Roman military law, not a Jewish law. Crucifixion is not a Jewish penalty, nor would the Jewish court have operated as reported. Thus, there are two separate sets of laws operating here. If you sin against the bible but then speed in your car after you do it and thus are forfeit of your driver's license, you have a similar situation.

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