Well, good morning, everybody. This is Bible versus Mark chapter 7, verse 17.

And when he, Jesus, later entered a house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable.

And he said to them, now the parable is to do with honoring thy mother and their father.

So as they refer in the previous chapters to the verse from Moses,

or to the commandment from Moses, honor thy mother and their father,

and anyone who speaks ill of thy mother and father,

he should be put to death, right?

So a death penalty for criticizing parents. Now, that's way too

much power for any human being to handle, that if you are criticized, those who criticize you

should be killed. That is a form of absolute megalomaniacal vanglorious psychosis, that is viewing yourself as a

god. And putting parents in the positions of vengeful, hateful, evil gods who can

command the death of anyone who criticizes them is, it's psychotic. And so they're saying, well, hang on,

you've said that parents can be criticized

and in fact should be, if they've done wrong,

and Moses says that anybody who criticizes parents

should be put to death.

So his disciples ask him about the parable,

and he said to them,

are you so lacking in understanding as well?

Do you not understand that whatever goes into the person from outside

cannot defile him?

Because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated.

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