Huff explained that the Pharisees and Sadducees, the Jewish leaders of the day, lived out a “hypocritical religiosity” and were obsessed with following “the letter of the law versus the intention of law.”
“Jesus critiques them for that,” said Huff, “because he says, ‘You’re trying to do everything right, and you’re missing the point.’” Huff gave as examples how Jesus saw the Sabbath and the way Jesus explained murder in the Sermon on the Mount.
“I think, you know, if Jesus is a moral example, it actually misses what I think Jesus actually said about what his purpose was,” Huff said, “in that, you can’t do enough to actually live up to the standard that God holds you to, and so if you keep striving, you’re actually going to wear yourself out and be exhausted.”
