Faith seeking understanding
Your laws are always right; help me to understand them so I may live. (Psalm 119:144) Photo by John-Mark Smith from Pexels I expect most people have an innate understanding that nit-picky legalism is bad. We have a variety of English idioms that illustrate the point. In Matthew 23, Jesus said the Pharisees would strain out gnats but swallow camels. Another phrase is penny-wise and pound-foolish; another, missing the forest for the trees. Each one of these illustrate the problem of focusing on small details to the exclusion of the big picture.