... sure everyone carried out every one of the 516-619 oral laws that existed and monitored the people making sure they ere not violating the Sabbath law by doing something that, for example, existed under the 39 categories of which work could be classified under. They enforced the fence around the law to make it unbreakable. They enforced each law rigidly and made sure that everyone else followed their strict interpretaion of the laws. We can clearly see how Jesus attitude to the Sabbath totally contrasted the view of the Pharisees in that he looks upon it in nearly the opposite fashion. Where the Pharisees took the attitude that the Sabbath was an issue that carried strict laws that shouldn't be broken, and not much else, Jesus took the attitude that the Sabbath is there to help, not hinder humanity. Where very few people follow the attitude of the Pharisees today, most ...

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