Posted on 08/04/2009 7:20:37 AM PDT by topcat54
Seriously though, I'm not sure who you've run into that has given you a bad impression of Calvinists, but I assure you we are very pleasant people to be around, but I am a little biased.
Like I said in my later post, I prefer not to get caught up in the minutiae, but prefer to keep the perspective that, but for the grace of God, we would all be bound for Hell. It is a great equalizer.
Did worship in the Temple in Jerusalem take place only on the Sabbath?
That's not what I said.
What I said is:
Although I agree that we should worship the LORD every day of the week, it is very clear through Scripture that the Sabbath is something special.
Worship was a continual occurrence in the Temple of the Lord (and should be for us today since we are the Temple indwelt by the Holy Spirit).
The point I'm trying to make is that the Sabbath is special and should be treated as such. We are commanded to keep it holy and we honor the Lord by doing so.
If you lived 5 kilometers from the Temple in pre-Christian days, would you have walked on the sabbath to the temple for worship? It’s not an unusually great distance.
Except that this conclusion rests on shaky ground.
The real wisdom is in the root meaning of the word "prophet". Skipping intermediate steps, I could summarize it as, "Don't make stuff up, you WILL get caught."
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