Right, so you are saying that Jesus wasn't so much doing away with the laws about the Sabbath (apart from a general instruction not to work found in the Ten Commandments), ...
I think this is part of the problem, martin. As far as I am aware, Jesus was NOT doing away with the general instruction not to work - but to rest and recreate/recuperate - but WAS doing away with the other laws that had been added to the core instruction. I do not see there being 'laws' in the beginning; if anything, there was
a law, if that is what people want to call the instruction that appears in the 10 Commandments.
Look at the context in which the instruction is worded - "I - God - rested on the 7th day, so I want you to do the same; it is a way for you as humanity to remember what I did in creation and to recover from the strenuous activities you have done over the past 6 days"
Look, for instance, at Matthew 16:5-12. Here Jesus tells the disciples to beware of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees. This implies that they were teaching things that were outside the parameters of God's own teaching. Look, also, at the passage on the 'Seven Woes' later in Matthew (chapter 23) where Jesus speaks out against the way in which the teachers of the law taught one thing and acted in another - 'straining out gnats but swallowing camels'.
whoops, forgot to erase the rest of martin's post!!
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