Posted on 06/27/2017 7:15:05 PM PDT by imardmd1
Some groups today, such as the Seventh-day Adventists, teach that keeping the seventh-day Sabbath is a perpetual moral law meant for all people, and that not keeping it is a sign of apostasy and disloyalty to God. They base their belief on Genesis 2:1–3, which tells of God resting after His creative work and then sanctifying the Sabbath day, and on the fourth commandment. They also argue that the New Testament teaches the continuity of seventh-day Sabbath observance by Christ’s followers, even after Christ’s death. These beliefs, however, are misguided. There is no universal moral obligation given in Genesis 2 to keep the Sabbath. Christ’s finished work on the cross, moreover, abrogated the Mosaic law, and thus the fourth commandment no longer applies to Christians.
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What would be possible on the Sabbath? Jesus attended synagogue, worshiped God, taught and applied the Scriptures, performed deeds of mercy and encouraged others to do the same, and He no doubt rested from some of His usual labor.
If there is a principle that one day in seven belongs to God, then it should be used to arrest us from our normal pursuits and allow us to devote more attention to God’s Word and work, but Christians are not obligated to observe the Sabbath, nor are they committing apostasy if they exercise their Christian liberty not to observe the Sabbath.
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This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 26, number 2 (2003)
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Mat 5: 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
You're on very shakey ground.
Immediately after Jesus says: 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments,
and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but it seems to me you're advocating that we don't have to keep the law, which is what Jesus precisely warned against.
Luke 4:16 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
A follower of Jesus would follow His example. That seems plain.
This is referring to the Sabbath rest instituted in Genesis 2:2 after Creation.
I am as well and he is doing some fairly strenuous acrobatics to make the nonsensical make sense. Strrrrretch!!!!
The Lord of the Sabbath
(1 Samuel 21:1-9; Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5)
1At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. 2When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”
3Jesus replied, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry? 4He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.
5Or haven’t you read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and yet are innocent? 6But I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.
7If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’a you would not have condemned the innocent. 8For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
Jesus Heals on the Sabbath
(Mark 3:1-6; Luke 6:6-11)
9Moving on from there, Jesus entered their synagogue, 10and a man with a withered hand was there. In order to accuse Jesus, they asked Him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”
11He replied, “If one of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out? 12How much more valuable is a man than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
13Then Jesus said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out, and it was restored to full use, just like the other. 14But the Pharisees went out and conspired to kill Jesus.
I know every Scripture you’ve cited. We simply do not agree.
The Sabbath was made for man. Not the other way around.
Try reading for context next time.
No, because it is right.
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ab·ro·gate
verb
formal
past tense: abrogated; past participle: abrogated
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repeal or do away with (a law, right, or formal agreement).
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synonyms: repeal, revoke, rescind, repudiate, overturn, annul; disallow, cancel, invalidate, nullify, void, negate, dissolve, countermand, declare null and void, discontinue; reverse, retract, remove, withdraw, abolish, put an end to, do away with, get rid of, end, stop, quash, scrap; disaffirm
"the time has come to formally abrogate this outdated agreement"
antonyms: institute, introduce
2.
evade (a responsibility or duty).
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Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
If there is a principle that one day in seven belongs to God, then it should be used to arrest us from our normal pursuits and allow us to devote more attention to God’s Word and work..
There is it, how the big message sails right on by. All that verse-quoting and 'explanation' , yet normal pursuits in regular life should be at one with devotion to God's word and work. All day every day. Devotion should course through the veins and mind and heart as the default manner of thinking and doing and existing. Thought ---> speech ---> action ---> living. It is how to elevate the physical world into the spiritual plane.
It's not even work if it is love. Much could be done and accomplished on the Sabbath alone by people who are not working. It ought to be the most productive day of the week actually, what with all the honor and reverence showered upon God.
The Messiah *is* the Law because he is the very embodiment of the Law. It is who he is, how he does things. He the one showing people by personal example of how it is done, superceding (not invalidating) the book. He *is* the Book, the word of God made manifest, acted out, lived. To deify him misses the point, but gross misunderstanding has been the established way since forever.
It’s one of the Commandments. Period.
If you want to keep the Sabbath, keep the Sabbath. If you don’t want to,don’t. It’s called freedom. You should try it.
Romans 14:5-6a (NKJV) 5 One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. 6a He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it.
God calls it sin. Sin being the transgression of His Law.
of course the Temple will be built again. One, the temple the antichrist moves into and announces himself god, and after it is destroyed, a permanent Temple
I am neither first-day nor seventh-day sabbatarian.
So, Nu, you Jewish?
With all my heart, a wild branch! Baruch haShem!
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Romans 11:13-33 AV (Bolding and color by me for emphasis):
13"For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. 15For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be,
but life from the dead?
16For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them,
and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness,
if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
23And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature
into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed
into their own olive tree?
25For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own
conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer,
and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election,
they are beloved for the fathers' sakes.
29For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
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So you are too immature of a believer to disagree without being combative or an arrogant jerk? Glad I didn’t waste my time explaining my understanding in detail.
It’s a commandment
Again, not a reference to the 7th day Sabbath. There many “holy days” back then. Is Christmas a holy day? It’s not in the Bible but many treat it as the “holiest time” of the year. Romans was wrote by the Apostle Paul, a great believer in the Law (Ten Commandments).
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