That's a funny cartoon!
I and most members of the church of God don't consider ourselves to be protestants. Obviously such things as sabbath and biblical holy day observance didn't cut the mustard in either Rome or protestant churches so I would trace my history back to Jesus Christ through a different route than traditional Christianity...through those who were outcast and vilified throughout history.
Is that an admission that there is no factual history for your claims?
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“Obviously such things as sabbath and biblical holy day observance didn’t cut the mustard in the Bible...”
Fixed your quote for you. For some reason it said “didn’t cut mustard with Rome and the Protestants” instead of the Bible, which is the correct wording. Your war is with the scripture, not with any particular group.
Col 2:16-17 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: (17) Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
The sabbath, and religious holy days were only a shadow, an imperfect symbol of Christ who was to come. We are not bound to watching any days, nor should we be wary of being judged by the likes of strange religious groups or modern day Judaizers who judge us on the matter.
Gal 4:9-11 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? (10) Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. (11) I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
This covers all the festivals, jubilees, all of the Holy days that you claim we are supposed to be observing. It has always fascinated me how cults like the Jehovah’s Witnesses or other groups always put so much emphasis on these things, but yet are utterly devoid of any desire for the deeper spiritual truths that are the treasures of God.
Rom 14:1-7 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. (2) For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs. (3) Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him. (4) Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand. (5) One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. (6) He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. (7) For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
I’ll regard not the day, and I’ll thank God for it. You go and regard it, and if you think it will save you, when you wake up in hell, you can cry out and say “But I kept the holy days!”