Human's are preoccupied with rules.  Jesus was not.  To ascribe a rule to Jesus -- as if he were also preoccupied -- is what I meant by the temptation to idolatry.

And it is precisely the community -- having seen Jesus challenge their regime of easy rules (e.g. Deuteronomy 24:1) -- who would be tempted to adopt much more demanding rules.  And thereby miss the point.  Jesus calls us as church to metanoia.  Be patient.  The church will in the end get the point.

One way of looking at the point Jesus was making -- which the church summarizes as "preaching the reign of God" -- is to consider a pair of bookends.  At one end is a vision: love of God and neighbor is "all the law and the prophets".  At the other end is a cautionary tale about burdening people with rules: Luke 11:46.

Jesus preached wholes.  Interpreting what he said so as to extract what looks like a "rule" -- simple and clear -- and filter out what makes us reflect and touch the Spirit, misses the whole that Jesus preached.