The Da Vinci code

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by GreyMouser

Could you please give an example of one of the pre-Jesus "moral teachers" who taught that legalistic observances were what mattered, not whether the platitudes came from the heart?

Certainly not the Buddha, Confucius, Mencius, Socrates, Amos, Micah, Hillel, Mahavira...

A moral teacher who doesn't believe that what is in the heart matters would seem to be a bit of an oxymoron, no?

But first GM, I'm confused: you say to give you an example of a teacher who taught that legalistic observances were what mattered, not wether the platitudes came from the heart?

But if I read Inked correctly, he was saying that Christ did not teach anything new, as far as Socrates or another moralist are concerned, but the Jewish Rabbis of the day were the ones Inked is referring when he says that Jesus taught that the heart etc...

When we christians say that Christ did not teach anything new, its not really correct always. What we like to say is that Christ as simply a Moral Teacher is no better than Socrates or Confucius. But we believe that he was not just a teacher, but God.

More later, gotta run!