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To: editor-surveyor

that’s very interesting, but i would find it more interesting if you could produce one Scripture that instructs any Gentile Christian to keep the 7th day sabbath.

if i am a Gentile convert in Corinth, i am totally unaware of the 7th day sabbath. if i am supposed to keep it, wouldn’t the NT indicate this somewhere?


923 posted on 06/17/2012 8:47:13 AM PDT by one Lord one faith one baptism
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To: one Lord one faith one baptism

The epistles to the Corinthians are a direct account of those Corinthians keeping the sabbath, and the appointed times. Ditto for every other congregation that Paul visited in his journeys.

There is nothing in the entire NT to indicate that any gentile or hebrew christian did anything but keep the appointed times. As for the sabbath, Paul didn’t instruct them that they ‘must’ honor any day, but that we are placed at liberty, under our personal convictions under Christ.

The point is that there was either honoring the Lord’s sabbath, or not honoring it. There never was any other day to honor. “Sunday” worship came centuries later, instituted by a pagan dictator, interested solely in consolidating his personal power.

Read the epistles openly, without preconceived bias, and you will see what they were doing. Prayer helps too.


925 posted on 06/17/2012 11:22:46 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they were.)
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