We are not under the law but under grace...If you want to keep the Sabbath as a holy day, go ahead...If you don’t want to, no big deal...
If you want to have other gods before the Lord, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to make graven images and bow down to them, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to take the name of the Lord in vain, NO BIG DEAL...
If you don’t want to honor your father and mother, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to kill (murder), NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to commit adultery, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to steal, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to bear false witness against your neighbor, NO BIG DEAL...
If you want to covet your neighbor’s belongings, NO BIG DEAL...
Hey Iscool, WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL???
The BIF DEAL you have yet to comprehend is, this is the Age of Grace not the Law. This is the age of Grace, salvation by faith alone (no works of ritual repetition) in Christ alone. Your works are filthy rags to God’s Righteousness. There is not one stitch you can add to the Righteousness already imputed to every Christian. But you cultists will keep believing you can add your rags to earn eternal life. THAT is the Big Seal a cultist like you misses.
God entrusted the sabbath to Israel to keep as a sign of the irrevocable covenant.
The Gospel reports many incidents when Jesus was accused of violating the sabbath law. But Jesus never fails to respect the holiness of this day. e gives this law its authentic and authoritative interpretation: "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath."
Jesus rose from the dead "on the first day of the week." Because it is the "first day," the day of Christ's Resurrection recalls the first creation. Because it is the "eighth day" following the sabbath, it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ's Resurrection. For Christians it has become the first of all days, the first of all feasts, the Lord's Day (he kuriake hemera, dies dominica) Sunday
Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week
Furthermore, Phill of insufficient light -- Strictly speaking, the sabbath is the day it always was--Saturday--though it should be noted that traditionally Jewish people have celebrated the sabbath from sundown on Friday to sundown on Saturday. Do you Adventists celebrate Sabbath from sundown on Friday to Sunday on Saturday?
Properly speaking, we're not celebrating the sabbath on Sunday. We're celebrating something else, but it's something that the sabbath points toward. the Jewish sabbath announces man's eternal rest in God and prefigures some aspects of Christ. Sunday thus fulfills what the sabbath pointed toward.
What we are celebrating instead of the sabbath is "the Lord's day." That's something Christians have celebrated since the first century. In fact, in the very first chapter of Revelation, we read that John experienced the inaugural vision of the book on "the Lord's day." He writes:
I John, your brother, who share with you in Jesus the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.And he goes on to describe the vision of Jesus Christ he received. For our purposes, the important thing to note is that he speaks of the Lord's day as an already-established thing. He expects his readers to know what it is. So, when is it?
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet [Revelation 1:9-10].
It's Domenica i.e. Sunday - a day separate from Sabbath.