Mark 7 vs WoW
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:26 am
I posted this on MAD, but I'd like to hear your comments as well...
In Mark 7, Christ is being chastised by the Pharisees for eating bread with unwashen hands.
Christ responds:
Mark 7:15-23
Why do LDS completely ignore this passage and claim that certain substances that go into the man are a sin? It appears that Christ specifically taught the exact opposite.
In Mark 7, Christ is being chastised by the Pharisees for eating bread with unwashen hands.
Christ responds:
Mark 7:15-23
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
17 And when he was entered into the house from the people, his disciples asked him concerning the parable.
18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
19 Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats?
20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Why do LDS completely ignore this passage and claim that certain substances that go into the man are a sin? It appears that Christ specifically taught the exact opposite.