Interesting Quote from Hugh Nibley

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I think what we are being taught is that the Pharisees failed to see the spiritual meaning and importance of the laws. All they had were laws to compare and elevate status and judge each other with those laws.

Today, I believe we are taught the laws and rules in the church are given with the right authority, so it is God’s will as long as we also remember the spiritual meanings behind them.

There is value to having rules and order, and I find the most spiritual people I interact with understand that these rules are less important than the principles behind them, and always subordinate to loving the individual. The more shallow and immature folks I interact with are the ones that obey but don’t understand why, and seem to be fixated on whether others are obeying also.

I think Christ was teaching teaching to be careful of being shallow in obedience.

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