What a poor argument for the changing one of Gods Commandments. If what you said were so, Jesus would have clearly and emphatically made this change and would have practiced this change. He did not. In fact He said in Matthew 24:20 about an event many years after His resurrection that the Sabbath was still valid.
BipolarBob,
Of my acquaintances I only know three of whom are or were Sabbatarians. I know that two of them were raised SDA, but they no longer are in attendance of a SDA church, but both propagate Sabbath observance.
My question, please don’t be offended, is this,
Were you raised SDA, or were you proselytized into the SDA Church?
I have a friendly running dialogue with both of them regarding SDA theology, in particular Sabbath Observance and Ellen White’s “The Investigative Judgement”
Thanks if you are able to respond, not looking for a pissing match I am just doing my own study of how people got into the SDA church.
gettinolder
Just following His words.
“And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Mat 6:18
"Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Mat 18:18
“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” John 16:12-13
“But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.” 1Tim 3:15
God Himself foretold in the Old Testament when the Sabbath would end, and it ended exactly when He said it would - at the cross. Up until that time Jesus kept the Sabbath because he was fulfilling the Law. The Sabbath ended at the cross. If you knew your Old Testament better you would know where it was prophesied and if you knew your New Testament better you would know how and WHEN it was fulfilled.
In fact He said in Matthew 24:20 about an event many years after His resurrection that the Sabbath was still valid.
You ought to be more careful about what you say the Lord said. He did NOT say "that the Sabbath was still valid". In Luke 21 He gave Christians in the city of Jerusalem instructions to FLEE THE CITY before the Roman armies surrounding the city destroyed it. The reason he instructed them to pray that their flight not be on a Sabbath day is that the Jews who controlled the city up until 70 AD always CLOSED THE GATES OF THE CITY ON THE SABBATH (Nehemiah 13:15-22) in which case the Christians could not get out.
In Matthew 24 that you cite Jesus lists 3 things that would hinder fleeing the city:
*Pregnant or Nursing mothers would be hindered for obvious reasons
*Winter would hinder because of exposure to cold temperatures and possibly snow.
*And closed, locked city gates on the Sabbath day would also obviously hinder their escape.
If you want to read some sort of doctrinal significance into these hindrances to fleeing the city, fine, but a requirement to keep the Sabbath is not even a remotely plausible one.
Cordially,