Posted on 03/25/2005 12:29:50 PM PST by DouglasKC
Yup. Good enough for me too.
Plenty of Christians kept the sabbath throughout history. Well into the 4th century it was apparently so prevelent that the early Roman church had to issue an edict at the council of Laodecia NOT to observe it by resting. Here is Canon XXIX from that council:
CANON XXIX.
CHRISTIANS must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day, rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians. But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ.
The mere fact that they had to tell people not to observe the sabbath by "resting" over 300 years after the death of Christ shows that many many Christians must have been keeping it.
I would say that's a modern day interpretation. Paul actually goes much further. He says that anyone who calls himself a Christian yet continues to willfully engage in obviously sinful behavior should put out of the church:
1Co 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
Your interpretation makes no sense. Why would Paul have thrown a command to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread into his discussion of the measures to take against the fornicator?
Because it shows the spiritual purpose of the holy day. The practice of seeking out and removing leaven from your household is a yearly physical reminder that we must seek out and remove sin from our lives. Paul extends the lesson to show that a sinful person in the midst of the congregation is like leavening in bread...it spreads to everyone else if tolerated. One bad apple can spoil the whole barrel.
Thanks for the ping. Another great post!
Show me a single source of anyone even suggesting to keep the Sabbath on a Saturday from between 800 and 1500 AD.
Classic!!
If we are to truly follow Christ, shouldn't we consider which religious days He observed?
A false dichotomy if ever there was one.
>> This is an example of a holiday that is not commandmended to be kept by God. Obviously observing it is not wrong. The difference is that it does not attempt to replace or supplant God's holy daysl. 2 Maccabees even shows that the kept God's Holy days: <<
How preposterous it would be to suggest tha it was meant to SUPPLANT or REPLACE a holy day? Since when does the observance of one feast supplant or replace another? Wherever did you get the bizarre notion that I endorsed something of the sort?
Now, I could have better noted that I did some calendar translation. What your source calls the "five and twentieth day of the same month," is of course referring to "Caslau" 25th.
I'm not sure where you're from, unless "KC" is a hint. But where I'm from, New york, Hannukah, the feast of the Taberbacles, is a big deal. And if you realize that the end of Hannukah is the 25th of "Caslau" and Christmas is the 25th of December, you recognize that plainly, Caslau is very close to December. As close as they can be given that one is a lunar calendar and one is solar calendar.
Had I had any question of your ability to recognize that the Jews kept a different calendar from us, I would certainly have noted the translation from one calendar to the next.
Given that Christmas (Dec. 25th) is celebrated nine months after the historical day of his death (Mar. 25th), according to the Roman calendar, and the anicent belief (cited by Constantine in your own source) that prophets died on the day they were conceived, there is strong basis that this translation of "Ceslau" to December is warranted.
j24>A false dichotomy if ever there was one.
Only if you consider Paul as the second person of the G-dhead !
B'shem Y'shua
chuck
Or if you believe that Paul followed the second person of the Godhead himself. I reject the premise of the extreme wings of Messianic Judaism, that considers Paul a corrupter of Christianity.
It's a reversion to Phariseeism all over again.
B'shem Y'shua
chuck
ps: off to shul
No more than the rest of the Scriptures. Peter also said this too.
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