So is failing to offer the blood of goats and lambs. You don't seem to understand the way in which the New Covenant superceded the Old Covenant. Christ sanctified a new day, and fulfilled the Old Covenant. That's why we don't have to circumcise our baby boys.
-A8
I don't understand the disconnect here. Circumcision and animal sacrifice are directly addressed in the New Testament. There is no mention of keeping any weekly day holy anywhere in scripture other than the 7th Day Sabbath. Christ sanctified the Sabbath, and he showed us that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
Rome teaches contrary to your interpretation of Scripture, not contrary to Scripture itself.
FRiend, your argument is not with me on this one. Rome changed the Sabbath and they are proud of it. It is a witness to their "binding and loosing" power. It shows, to all the world, they they are the final arbiters of doctrine for the universe. This is the entire foundation that the church at Rome is founded upon. Apostolic succession trumps everything. If you believe that the switch from Sabbath to Sunday is scriptural, then you are not a Catholic. You are a misinformed, revisionist Protestant.
"From this same Catholic Church you have accepted your Sunday, and that Sunday, as the Lord's day, she had handed down as a tradition; and the entire Protestant world has accepted it as tradition, for you have not an iota of Scripture to establish it. Therefore that which you have accepted as your rule of faith, inadequate as it of course it is, as well as your Sunday, you have accepted on the authority of the Roman Catholic Church." D. B. Ray, The Papal Controversy, 1892, page 179
This is also the basis of ecumenism. Pre-vatican II, everybody outside Rome was screwed. Then it hit them. All these "Protestant" churches go to church on Rome's Sabbath. They all observe Rome's key invented holidays as well - Easter and Christmas. They're all giving witness to the power of Rome while decrying it's authority! Vatican II celebrates this!
"Reason and sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday. Compromise is impossible." James Cardinal Gibbons, Catholic Mirror, Dec. 23, 1893.
I can't tell you guys the laughs I have enjoyed over here watching you guys attack me over things your very church teaches.
Have a blessed Sunday,
Chris