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To: DouglasKC

Hmm, did Ellen G White have Acts 20:7 removed from the Bible under inspiration?

I repeat, the Mosaic law was fulfilled and nailed to the cross. We are not to be worried about new moons, festivals and sabbaths. Jesus is our Sabbath, we rest in Him.

Show me one verse where Paul explains to the Gentile converts what the Sabbath day is for, why we need to keep it and how we should keep it.
You can’t!
The Christian Church never kept the Sabbath any more than we practice circumcision.
Christians follow the commandments of Christ, I asked if you knew what they were. No Sabbath is mentioned so maybe you never learned that.


47 posted on 02/05/2016 8:00:06 PM PST by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism
Show me one verse where Paul explains to the Gentile converts what the Sabbath day is for, why we need to keep it and how we should keep it. You can’t!

Of course I can.

When Paul was tutoring Timothy he wrote:

2Ti 3:15 and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
2Ti 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
2Ti 3:17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

This is what Paul think about scripture. And that scripture he was referring to was what we call the books of the old testament.

And what do those scriptures teach?

Exo 20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

Now either Paul taught gentiles from the scriptures or he didn't. Your position (apparently) is that he completely abandoned all scripture that showed absolutely what God expects from his followers about the sabbath. And we KNOW that's not true because of what he told Timothy.

What did he teach to gentiles? There is no doubt that many, if not most, of the Roman converts were gentile converts.

Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, "YOU SHALL NOT COVET."
Rom 7:8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead.
Rom 7:9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died.
Rom 7:10 And the commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death.
Rom 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me.
Rom 7:12 Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

Substitute "keep the sabbath" for "thou shalt not covet". If it weren't for the sabbath commandment we wouldn't know we were sinning. Therefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good.

88 posted on 02/06/2016 6:07:13 AM PST by DouglasKC
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