“How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Matthew 16:11-12 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.16.11-12.NIV
The Sadducees were a Jewish sect active during the Second Temple period, from roughly the 2nd century BCE until the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. They were primarily composed of the priestly, aristocratic, and wealthy elite who dominated the Temple in Jerusalem and played a significant role in Jewish governing institutions, particularly the Sanhedrin, the assembly responsible for both legal and religious matters. They controlled major religious and political life due to their involvement with the Temple and Sanhedrin, especially the role of High Priest, which was almost always filled by a Sadducee.
In Matthew 22, the Sadducees challenge Jesus with a conundrum about the afterlife, since they didn’t believe in the resurrection. The Pharisees follow up with a question of the law: “which is the Greatest Commandment?” “The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat. 3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach. “A better definition for legalism is the attempt to be justified on a legal basis. (“Two Pathways“)
“How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Matthew 16:11-12 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.16.11-12.NIV
The Sadducees were a Jewish sect active during the Second Temple period, from roughly the 2nd century BCE until the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. They were primarily composed of the priestly, aristocratic, and wealthy elite who dominated the Temple in Jerusalem and played a significant role in Jewish governing institutions, particularly the Sanhedrin, the assembly responsible for both legal and religious matters. They controlled major religious and political life due to their involvement with the Temple and Sanhedrin, especially the role of High Priest, which was almost always filled by a Sadducee.
In Matthew 22, the Sadducees challenge Jesus with a conundrum about the afterlife, since they didn’t believe in the resurrection. The Pharisees follow up with a question of the law: “which is the Greatest Commandment?” “The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat. 3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach. “A better definition for legalism is the attempt to be justified on a legal basis. (“Two Pathways“)
“How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Matthew 16:11-12 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.16.11-12.NIV
In Matthew 22, the Sadducees challenge Jesus with a conundrum about the afterlife, since they didn’t believe in the resurrection. The Pharisees follow up with a question of the law: “which is the Greatest Commandment?” “The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat. 3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach. “A better definition for legalism is the attempt to be justified on a legal basis. (“Two Pathways“)
“How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Matthew 16:11-12 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.16.11-12.NIV
In Matthew 22, the Sadducees challenge Jesus with a conundrum about the afterlife, since they didn’t believe in the resurrection. The Pharisees follow up with a question of the law: “which is the Greatest Commandment?” “The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat. 3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
“How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” Matthew 16:11-12 NIV https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.16.11-12.NIV
In Matthew 22, the Sadducees challenge Jesus with a conundrum about the afterlife, since they didn’t believe in the resurrection. The Pharisees follow up with a question of the law: “which is the Greatest Commandment?”
We’ve been living in the lengthening shadow of postmodernism, relativism, subjectivism, and standpoint epistemology since at least the eighties, when I came of age. For the less philosophically inclined, I call it mytruthism. Transgenderism is the apotheosis of this spirit. Today I ran across a new term to add to the litany: “cognitive autonomy”. In response to a clever riposte by J.K. Rowling, X poster @zoverions makes the following case.
We’ve been living in the lengthening shadow of postmodernism, relativism, subjectivism, and standpoint epistemology since at least the eighties, when I came of age. For the less philosophically inclined, I call it mytruthism. Transgenderism is the apotheosis of this spirit. Today I ran across a new term to add to the litany: “cognitive autonomy”. In response to a clever riposte by J.K. Rowling, X poster @zoverions makes the following case.
We’ve been living in the lengthening shadow of postmodernism, relativism, subjectivism, and standpoint epistemology since at least the eighties, when I came of age. For the less philosophically inclined, I call it mytruthism. Transgenderism is the apotheosis of this spirit. Today I ran across a new term to add to the litany: “cognitive autonomy”. In response to a clever riposte by J.K. Rowling, X poster @zoverions makes the following case.
We’ve been living in an age of postmodernism, relativism, subjectivism, and standpoint epistemology since at least the eighties, when I came of age. For the less philosophically inclined, I call it mytruthism. Transgenderism is the apotheosis of this spirit and there’s a new (to me) term to add to the litany: “cognitive autonomy”. In response to a clever riposte by J.K. Rowling, X poster @zoverions makes the case.
