>>40301729When was the last time you even went to church?
5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”
6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
“‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
7 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’[b]
8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
[Mark 7:5-8]
They point to the rules isn't to be obeyed, they're to recognize that we're ALL sinners. Nobody can obey all of the rules. That's WHY we need Jesus, and His Church. We are imperfect beings, but God doesn't love us because we're perfect, He loves us because we're His.
6 The apostles and elders met to consider this question. 7 After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. 8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear? 11 No! We believe it is through the grace of our Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”
[Acts 15:6-11]
I used to be just like you btw, like St Paul before he was blinded by God. Using the law to justify my hate. But I was healed by Jesus, you can be too, just accept His love.