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To: DouglasKC; Diego1618; XeniaSt
Act 18:4 And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

Thanks, but I already dealt with those verses. Paul was there to dispute with the Jews about their Messiah. It was not a Christian worship. These were Jews and proselyte gentiles to Judaism in synagogue. You can read for yourself I suppose.

I repeat once again, where in the NT after the resurrection do you find the church meeting on the last day of the week to break bread and hear the apostles' teaching?

113 posted on 09/30/2005 7:29:14 PM PDT by topcat54
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To: topcat54
Thanks, but I already dealt with those verses. Paul was there to dispute with the Jews about their Messiah. It was not a Christian worship. These were Jews and proselyte gentiles to Judaism in synagogue. You can read for yourself I suppose.

Act 13:44 And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

Nearly the WHOLE city of Anitoch in Posidia was proselyte gentiles? Kind of hard to believe that a city of 100,000 people had that many proselytes. But even if it did, so what? Your position is that Paul had in essence "come to Jesus" meetings every sabbath day. Then you suppose that he had secret meetings not mentioned in the bible where he preached to those who had come to Jesus the day before.

Acts has a couple of sermons by Paul. He never says "and after you come to Jesus meet with us tomorrow at our church because we believe that Christians should worship on Sunday, not the sabbath because we don't have to keep the sabbath anymore." Yet they kept coming back sabbath after sabbath. Scripture records that Paul preached sabbath after sabbath. Scripture even records absolutely that Christians met in synagogues:

Act 22:19 And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

Paul states that he was beating Christians who were meeting in synagogues. And when were they meeting in synagogues?

Act 13:42 And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.

Sabbath days. It can't really be much clearer...unless you want to embrace your tradition over scripture.

I repeat once again, where in the NT after the resurrection do you find the church meeting on the last day of the week to break bread and hear the apostles' teaching?

I've got to give you credit for your debate style. You state a question and then disregard any and all answers that are given unless it's the one you want to hear. Nonetheless, the apostles broke bread and met every day:

Act 2:46 And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
Act 2:47 Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Your task is still to prove, from scripture, that God ever instructed Christians that the sabbath that he had made holy, the 7th day, was ever made non-holy. Here's one more proof text that shows this isn't so. Jesus said:

Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

The event that Jesus is discussing is the destruction of Jerusalem, which happened in 70 AD. Now why would God on earth, Jesus Christ, if he knew that the sabbath day was going to be abolished upon his death on the cross, possibly make reference to a sabbath day that was no longer going to exist 35 years later?

119 posted on 10/01/2005 6:10:32 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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