“Sort of a good news/bad news situation. The good news? Bacon’s back on the menu. More importantly, we don’t have to try to approach God like the scribes, with an ever-expanding, impossible list of arbitrary rules that no one can live up to. We don’t have to “keep” the Sabbath or “keep” a certain diet or “keep” a certain state of ceremonial cleanness to be able to approach God.
The bad news is that the holiness problem is way worse than not washing our hands a certain way before eating a biscuit. The actual problem is that our hearts are defiled. But how do you wash a heart?
While the Pharisees thought their hands qualified them for heaven, Jesus reveals that our hearts disqualify every last one of us.“
