Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Thursday, December 04, 2014

Luke 5

As I have served, I have found that in the Church, many are steep in tradition.  Sometimes so steep in tradition that many follow traditions rather than the current inspired instructions found in the handbooks of instruction.

Because of scribes and Pharisees, the Jews had fallen into the trap of traditions over truth thus Jesus -

"...spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better."  (New Testament | Luke 5:36 - 39)

Thus when instructed by priesthood leaders and guided by the Holy Ghost, we should prepare ourselves to abandon old traditions and have a "new beginning".