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It is tragic that many Christians have never seen the radical dichotomy between Pharisaism and Christianity, between religion and Christianity. Pharisaic attitudes and methods are so pervasive and rampant within "Christian religion" today that it is imperative that those who call themselves "Christians" reconsider why Jesus was constantly exposing the Pharisees as contrary to the gospel He came to bring in Himself.

Contrasting Christ's Teaching and Pharisaism
    In his book exploring the Ethics of Christianity, German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer indicates that,

"It is in Jesus' meeting with the Pharisees that the old and the new are most clearly contrasted. The correct understanding of this meeting is of the greatest significance for the understanding of the gospel as a whole."
    "Jesus speaks with a complete freedom which is not bound by the law of logical alternatives To the Pharisees this freedom necessarily appears as the negation of all order, all piety and all belief. Jesus casts aside all the distinctions which the Pharisee so laboriously maintains. For the Pharisee, Jesus is a nihilist, a man who knows and respects only his own law, an egoist and a blasphemer of God." 5

   Swedish author Hugo Odeberg, in his book entitled Pharisaism and Christianity, notes the contrasting presuppositions of Pharisaic thought and Christian thought.

"The antithesis between Jesus and the Pharisees...involved the extreme basic principles, teachings, and experiences upon the recognition or denial of which the entire existence of society was dependent." 6
"Pharisaism declares: Man shall will what is good, and he is able to will what is good. He who wills what is good and also seeks to do good becomes a good and upright person. Christ's teaching, however, declares that by nature man neither can nor will do what is good. If he directs his will and his efforts toward that which is good, he in reality comes to strive for that which is evil. 7
"It is a fundamental conviction of Pharisaism that man has a free will with respect to morality. The Talmud states that 'everything is in God's hands except godliness. Whether man is a wicked man or a righteous man, this is determined by man himself.' That man has a free will in moral matters implies he is able to do what the commandments require. The ethical action is within man's power to perform. He can both will and do what is right. Josephus, himself a Pharisee, explained, 'do not deprive the human will of the pursuit of what is in man's power.' The Christian view is that man cannot choose what is good, and whatever ways of conduct he may choose, he can never produce what is good."8
"The Christian view is that man can will to do good and obey the divine will only on the assumption that he has become a new creature, born again by the Spirit. To the Pharisaic manner of thinking, this view is simply incomprehensible and appears as sheer folly.9

"The Pharisees taught the idea of the indestructible divine soul, the innermost and vital part of man. The neshama prayer was, 'My God, the soul which Thou hast given me is pure.' The neshama (soul) of man was regarded as a divine and eternal vestige in man, the divine spark in every man. Pharisaic Judaism is unable to comprehend the fall of man and the idea of original sin. They speak of good impulses versus evil impulses. The evil impulses may obscure the purity of the soul, but never extinguish it. Man's task is to bring everything within himself into harmony with his noblest (neshama) part, under the dominion of the divine spark. One rabbi wrote, 'In all of man there is nothing unclean. He is pure. Man is created in the image of God.' Christian teaching, on the other hand, indicates that "by one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin" (Rom. 5:12,16,17). The divine life in man has not been obscured but totally lost.10
"For Pharisaism 'conversion' is when man turns around from the direction leading away from God to the direction leading to God, to begin a new way of life by one's own ability, to change oneself by his own strength. Pharisaism consists in wanting to attain the divine by means which are apart from God. Christian behavior is based on, "I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Gal. 2:20)." 11

   These are revealing contrasts between the theses of Pharisaism and Christianity. They are based on diametrically opposite presuppositions and premises.
    Pharisaic thinking is indicative of all religious thinking, which is contrary to the "good news" of what Jesus came to bring in Himself. Pharisaic thinking and methodology is cultic thinking and methodology. It includes extra-biblical revelation, authoritarianism, elitism, superiority, pride, exclusivism, separatism, secrecy, legalism, moral and behavioral conformity, isolationism, busyness, critical and hostile attitudes, defensiveness, self-serving, deception, proselytizing, financial exploitation, political attachments, prophetic abuse, etc. These are not consistent with the character and ministry of Jesus Christ.
    To the extent that one thinks like a Pharisee, he is not thinking like a Christian. Odeberg explains that

"A Pharisaism which assumes Christian lines of thought ceases to be Pharisaism, and a Christianity which incorporates Pharisaic lines of thought likewise ceases to be Christianity. Pharisaism is not something that can be combined with Christianity. It will work as a deadly poison which is bound to destroy the Christian life. 12

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