When Jesus Broke the Rules

And When He Didn't. Jesus royally ticked a lot of people off- he broke the rules in a couple cases where it was thought sacrosanct territory. I can think of two without even researching far. The disciples were on a long trek with him going from village to village, and they got hungry-they started picking off the grains of wheat and eating them-why not, its just bread without the water, and yeast not cooked. The problem is that it was the Sabbath and it is against the rules to do any work on the Sabbath-they violated the rules- they collected and ate what they harvested. Jesus said, haven't you heard about the time when King David was on the run and so starving he ate what was in the Sanctuary for the priests? Sabbath was made for man not visa versa. The Sabbath is to regenerate by rest. If you can regenerate or revive immediately on the Sabbath of course you do that. Someone comes into an emergency room on the Sabbath you don't tell him to wait a day or two to take out the knife in his head. Another time a man with a withered hand approached begging him to heal him. The Pharisees advised him that it was not permitted to heal on the Sabbath. In their faces he told the man to come near him and he instantaneously cured him. The Pharisees were furious. He did the same thing to the blind man whom he cured by rolling up some mud with his own spittle and putting it on his eyes and he was cured of blindness. Jesus said- look, if your ox or beast of burden fell in a ditch on the Sabbath are you allowed to pull him out? Of course everyone agrees you shouldn't let him just die there because it is the Sabbath, you should rescue him. And how much more important then is a human's life or health? So the rules were determined in some cases to defeat the purposes for which they were intended and in that case, they have to be broken. So why isn't gay marriage and anal/oral sex till you die like that? Shouldn't we all just be really compassionate toward anyone's sexual practice, -its none of our business, we should just bless whatever they want to do with their bodies? No, that is not compassion. Because first, Jesus says if you love me follow MY commandments because they are not burdensome, they are light. Do not be deceived, says Paul in Corinthians 6:9 (...) men having sex with men, homosexuals ....will not enter the Kingdom of God. The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. Sexual purity is something serious. Nowhere does Jesus say - see that bunch of gay guys groping each other like a bunch of drunk Romans over there? That's OK too because the Sabbath was made for anal copulation. No-its an absurd result- We are to hate evil, hate sin and love what is good. Every argument for gay marriage circularly reasons that it is good and should be recognized as such. But that is not what it says in Scripture. In Scripture the twin towns of Sodom and Gommorrah full of homosexual lust was leveled and thousands of people died under an ashpile of hailing sulpher (hence, the name Fire and Brimstone given to sermons that remind us of this historic episode). The wife of Lot, a nephew of Abraham was turned into a pillar of salt for even debasing herself by looking back on it when told not to. To this day nothing grows there-God cursed the land itself he was so disgusted. Jesus has some pretty clear rules of things he does not think are OK. Corrupt money-changers at the Temple Courtyard, for example. There is never one account of any disciple or apostle being given a blessing for a blessed union of body anywhere in the New Testament- and with 12 guys traveling around together you would think it would get a mention if such a thing were blessed. No, Jesus calls them his brothers. Whoever does my Will is my brother or sister- like those apostles. Not his married homosexual lover friends. Even given the trajectory of Jesus' compassion, there is no spiritual or scriptural justification for putting any sort of legal blessing on a homosexual union. It is a sign of the later days we are told. It is sign of the general debasement of humanity encroaching on us and demanding respect like the demons following Jesus and the apostles yelling louder and louder for attention because really, they are trying to trip him up. There is no requirement to make equal things that are not. Good is not equal to evil, there is no Constitutional right to be bad. The assumptions required to find homosexual sex 'good' in any fashion, as a matter of psychology or science are not valid or real. It is a psychological fiction demanding to be treated as good.