In America, Christmas, a tradition of men, an unbiblical feast day, is observed by both believers in Christ and unbelievers, every year, without fail. Businesses close. People have a feast. They have a tree inside their house. They give each other gifts.
Jesus tells us what the two great commandments are and that if we keep them we have kept them all.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
To honor God in our hearts, souls and minds could be much more important than honoring God through ritual or physical doings.
If we believe that we can change the Sabbath to some day other than the day in which God rested we can hardly say we believe in him with all of our hearts, soul and minds.
The Sabbath is an event which happened, we can not change it.
So if the Sabbath means nothing, then neither do any of the other commandments such as thou shalt not kill which the Sunday Sabbath keepers hold so dear.
I believe the early Church held services on the first day of the week ( Sunday ) for two reasons, the first in honoring the Sabbath the second in honoring Christ.
The religious leaders obviously had made the Sabbath a day of ritual,
The early Christians knew that the seventh day was a day of rest, not a day of ritual, also in honor of the Sabbath Jesus was raised on Sunday so the Christians held services on that day in honor of him.
Yes, Christmas and the Sunday Sabbath are nothing but traditions of man and yet they will go on and on about false prophets and false doctrine.
I hardly believe that we can live the letter of the laws of
God, we couldn’t that is why God sent his son.
But i also think it is fruitless to try to change the laws of God and make up all sorts of laws in an attempt to hide our own short comings.
But it seems to be great for the bank accounts of many.
Yes, ravenwolf; verses to remember regarding false teachers and bank accounts:
2 Peter 2
“1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
Christians are USED today to further the ends of globalism by false Christian leaders. Globalism, of course, is ultimately Satanic. Satan, remember, is a “deceiver” and “father of lies”.
John 8
“42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”