For us, those principles bear directly on flesh and blood people.
I can say the same thing about my ethics of personal empowerment. But however much one is concerned with flesh and blood, real-life problems, thoughts and conversations and writings about them are abstractions.
The former was not a moral teaching.
The Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments. "Moral" concern or not, it was (and is) a primary aspect of Jewish culture and identity. Most of the Orthodox Jewish people i've known have to go to great lengths to structure their life around the Sabbath. So it is no light matter that Jesus insisted that the Pharisees cut his disciples some slack for violating Sabbath because they were starving.
And in the latter, we can't forget that he told her to go forth and sin no more.
The law demanded that the woman be stoned to death. That is the OT punishment for adultery. In that respect Jesus compromised on principle in a big way.
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I can say the same thing about my ethics of personal empowerment. But however much one is concerned with flesh and blood, real-life problems, thoughts and conversations and writings about them are abstractions.
The former was not a moral teaching.
The Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments. "Moral" concern or not, it was (and is) a primary aspect of Jewish culture and identity. Most of the Orthodox Jewish people i've known have to go to great lengths to structure their life around the Sabbath. So it is no light matter that Jesus insisted that the Pharisees cut his disciples some slack for violating Sabbath because they were starving.
And in the latter, we can't forget that he told her to go forth and sin no more.
The law demanded that the woman be stoned to death. That is the OT punishment for adultery. In that respect Jesus compromised on principle in a big way.