Mark 6:6-7

Church Doctrine is just that, doctrine of a particular denomination, it is not God’s commands. We must always make sure that we obey God’s ways and not man’s and understand the difference.

Jesus did not directly answer the question but instead addressed two more significant issues: (1) the superiority of God’s law over man-made tradition and (2) the difference between ceremonial and true moral defilement.  Jesus enters into the argument by calling His adversaries hypocrites. The term originally referred to actors who wore masks on stage as they played different characters. Thus the Pharisees were not genuinely religious; they were merely playing a part for all to see.

Mark 7:6-7

6 He answered and said to them,  “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written:

 ‘This people honors Me with their lips,

 But their heart is far from Me.

7  And in vain they worship Me,

 Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’