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To: Buggman

I gave you examples demonstrating that a change had taken place. They were in the custom of meeting on the first day of the week.

You also know that they were permitted to loose and bind whatever they wished.

Besides, it makes sense to worship Jesus on Resurrection Day. I’m not sure how this lessens Saturday any????


26 posted on 03/25/2008 11:46:23 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain -- Those denying the War was Necessary Do NOT Support the Troops!)
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To: xzins
I gave you examples demonstrating that a change had taken place. They were in the custom of meeting on the first day of the week.

We have one example of them meeting on Saturday night and one of them collecting money after the Sabbath so that the Jewish believers wouldn't have to handle money on the day of rest. We have several examples of them continuing in the synagogues on the Sabbath and Gentiles coming into the synagogues to learn about and worship God on the Sabbath, as well as the Lord's own example to follow.

Why do you see your two examples as overriding my half-dozen, the true teaching of Hebrews 4, and the whole Torah?

You also know that they were permitted to loose and bind whatever they wished.

Then I guess the Catholic Church leaders could just bind us into Marian devotion, purgatory, indulgences, and relics, now couldn't they?

Binding and loosing was limited in its authority. It gives one the authority to make rulings based on the Scriptures, not to override any existing Scriptures.

Besides, it makes sense to worship Jesus on Resurrection Day. I’m not sure how this lessens Saturday any????

It actually doesn't lessen the Sabbath at all to worship on Sunday--provided one does not let it. Again, the practice in traditional, Orthodox Judaism is to gather and worship corporately every day. Such was the practice in the early and medieval Church as well.

So the issue is not whether one may worship on Sunday. Of course you can! But that doesn't change the fact that God commanded that we observe the Sabbath and keep it holy, or that the Sabbath is on the seventh day.

I know Christians (Chuck Missler comes to mind) who continue to worship on Sunday, but who make a point of setting aside the Sabbath to be with their families and to rest in the Lord because they recognize that God especially sanctified that day. I have no problem with that at all; in fact, I see it as a wonderful thing, for they are treating the Sabbath as a delight to enjoy in the Lord rather than a burden to be avoided.

My problem is not with my brethren meeting on Sunday, but with the tradition of men that God either moved or annulled the Sabbath. He has done neither, and I must uphold the Bible above any and all traditions of men.

Shalom.

27 posted on 03/25/2008 12:47:41 PM PDT by Buggman (HebrewRoot.com - Baruch haBa b'Shem ADONAI!)
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