The Pharisee in all of us
When you read the various arguments that are being spoken and published with respect to the hot issues threatening to split denominations, has it occurred to anyone that we need to look again at the arguments contained in the gospels between Jesus and the Pharisees? As I understand it, the Pharisees were one among several schools of thought within the Jewish community. However, by the time most of the gospels were written, after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, they were the group that survived the Roman effort to destroy Judaism.