David ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat but he was God’s consecrated future king, he was in need of nourishment and thus the priests heeded higher laws. Love is our highest law and when one is guided by God’s love...all the other laws will line up in the order we are to follow. Under Christ’s love, it is not that all laws are set aside, it is simply that some laws such as charity will supersede lesser laws. I’m with you in that this attempt to foist a Jewish system of feasts and Sabbath worship on Gentiles is a non sequitor in the living of the Christian faith. Paul condemen it then and he would now!
Referencing the story of the Good Samaritan: The priests were technically correct as per the Law of Moses in not helping the robbed injured traveler but they were wrong in not heeding God’s higher laws that demanded they help this man even if his bloody wounds were potentially a corruption to them. In truth, they hid behind their adherence to the law as a selfish justification in not aiding the man. The Good Samaritan, in helping the man,(despite the estrangement of the Samaritans from the Jews and the Mosaic laws) shows himself to be in tune with God’s rightful ordering of his Laws grounded in Love after the priestly order of Melchizidek!
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It’s the same with Jesus healing on the Sabbath.
You do not know the reason(s) they avoided him. Your theory is possible but not determined. What was judged is they did not fulfill the law to love your neighbor as yourself.
>> “I’m with you in that this attempt to foist a Jewish system of feasts and Sabbath worship on Gentiles is a non sequitor in the living of the Christian faith. Paul condemen it then and he would now!” <<
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First it is not nor ever was in any way “Jewish.”
The appointed times have been, since Adam sinned, for all men.
None of the apostles condemned keeping the times, and Sabbath, they all kept them and fully advocated keeping them, and this held true until the 4th century. This is the very essence of the faith.
What Paul and the rest of the apostles condemned was the Pharisee’s false man made commandments; the same ones that Yeshua condemned and issued many woes upon the scribes and Pharisees for promoting. Paul praised the Thessalonians, and the Colossians for their keeping of the times and Sabbath, and told the Thessalonians that Yeshua would not come unto them as a thief because they kept them, and would know when to expect his return.
On the other hand he cautioned the church at Sardis in Rev 3:3 that because they did not keep them, he would come to them as a thief, and they would not know.
Would you not prefer to be like the Thessalonians?
You are correct that the Love commandments must take precedence over all. And doing so subsequently causes us to follow all of the commandments, as he writes them on our hearts.
If they aren’t written on your heart, you’d do well to find out what has caused his writer’s cramp quickly.
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No, they weren't.