What is the legacy of the Pharisees to the Catholic Church & others?

[Winston]

In Luke 11: 37 to 54 (Woe to you, Pharisees!), Jesus Christ cursed the Pharisees six (6) times as follows:

Verse 42: Neglecting justice & the love of God;
Verse 43: Wanting to be treated as VIP;
Verse 44: Hypocrites;
Verse 46: Giving burdens to people without helping them;
Verse 47: Killing the apostles & prophets;
Verse 52: Taking the key of knowledge when it was not given & prevented others from rendering the truth.

If you examine Jesus Christ's curses, do you think that the churches in these present times are doing the same? I say YES. To justify, look at the Catholic Church for example:

In verse 42, international media exposed sexual immoralities in the Catholic Church in the first half of 2010 but the Vatican did not give justice to those victims from sexual abuses. In fact, it harbored & protected clergies involved in this crime.

In verse 43, we all see or witness this in social functions;

In verse 44, international news had it (as of November 2009) that Pope Benedict XVI wanted to study aliens in the outer space. And the Vatican said that it has to review first if this is not contrary to faith. Can you imagine that they have to validate faith when we expect the Pope to be totally loyal to God?

In verse 46, the foreign news sometime 2nd quarter of 2010 said that Belgium discovered money laundering violations, committed by the Vatican. People give tithes. Collection undergoes illegal transfers. But the Catholic Church, with so much resources, could not even help people from natural disasters.

In verse 47, the Catholic Church interprets this as physical persecution. This is wrong. Please take note that there are many false interpretations in the Bible (particularly written in the footnotes) and therefore, this will prove that they have also killed the prophets just like the Pharisees. Like Daniel 7 (known as the 4 beasts vision), the Church says that it was wars in the Middle East before Christ while USA's 1999 version was wars in Europe after Christ when the truth is, it pertains to the 4 councils of the United Nations as decoded & interpreted by the asker (Winston Kayanan from the Philippines) in June 2004. Search my name at Yahoo to know the details of the interpretation since answers.yahoo has stored some of my articles since April 2009. Other than this, Genesis 1-3, 2 Peter 1-3 and Revelation 1-22 were also decoded & interpreted from September to November 2011 and hence, the interpretations of the Catholic Church are all false which will prove & justify that they indeed killed the word of God through the prophets.

In verse 52, the Catholic Church interprets this as people go to other churches. This is also wrong. This verse means that God did or does not give the truth to the church, theologians, historians, philosophers, scholars & experts but rather He gave or gives the truth to His chosen ones to be proclaimed to all. In other words, they preempted God's words without receiving them. And if someone reveals the true meaning of the prophetic words of God, they don't listen for they just ignore it.

In this vein, the faults of the Pharisees were no different from the faults & failures of the Catholic Church and others. And hence, these curses have not been withdrawn for these have been the legacy that has been carried over from generations to generations up to the present times. They have taken advantage of God and Jesus Christ in their infinite goodness, thereby deliberately condemning themselves. That is why, in Revelation 19 Triumph of the Word of God, Jesus Christ will execute God's wrath (i.e., destruction of mankind) on his second coming and the Catholic Church & other churches have no justifiable excuses.

[kaganate]

I should realy start becoming immune to these sorts of posts - but I just can't help it.

The anti-pharisee propaganda caricatures of the New Testament as ratified by the Roman council of Nicea 300 years after the death of Jesus were just that -- calumnies designed to demonise Jews.

The Pharisees were modest scholars with moderate habits who spent their time in the careful study of God's words.
For example, to explain what Pharisee is to a Roman audience, Josephus calls them Stoics.
You can read the philosophical works of Marcus Aurelius to see what the word Stoic meant to the Roman audience.

[Prince of Blacks]

I am most surprised that this Question got Asked on YAHOO! AUSTRALIA without being deleted!
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What is surprising is that EVERY Protestant will agree with you, but NOT ONE other is going to see that EVERYTHING Jesus accused the Pharisees of is functioning in EVERY Church that follows PAUL (Matt. 7:1-5).
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I have met Christians who thought that they were preaching The Gospel who were STUNNED when I informed them that PAUL WAS A PHARISEE (Acts 23:6)!
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Every Church that follows Paul commits the same sinful Principles Jesus blasted them for in Matt. 15 & 23!

[me]

Modern day Pharisees are Rabbinical Jews