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Rome's Challenge: Why do Protestants Keep Sunday? (Its not in the Bible, she changed it and wants her credit)
https://www.romeschallenge.com/ ^ | 1893 | Catholic Mirror

Posted on 06/14/2023 10:48:04 AM PDT by vespa300

Most Christians assume that Sunday is the biblically approved day of worship. The Roman catholic church protests that it transferred Christian worship from the biblical Sabbath (Saturday) to Sunday, and that to try to argue that the change was made in the Bible is both dishonest and a denial of Catholic authority. If Protestantism wants to base its teachings only on the Bible, it should worship on Saturday.

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TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Mainline Protestant
KEYWORDS: rome; sabbath; sunday
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To: unlearner

——>God writes His laws on the hearts of those who trust in Christ. These laws are more than the ten commandments

But it certainly includes them, and therefore it includes the literal, original, moral 7th-day-Sabbath, as written by the finger of Jesus Christ.


681 posted on 06/20/2023 12:53:24 PM PDT by Philsworld (Saints are saints and angels are angels, except when they're called saints. )
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To: Songcraft

LOL. How appropriate.

We only know about the mark of the beast because God revealed it in scripture. Those who receive his mark will be doomed to Hell.

Revelation 14:11 NKJV
And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.

So it is appropriate that a similar warning goes out that references that cursed number. Those who preach a false Gospel will meet the same fate.


682 posted on 06/20/2023 12:56:07 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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To: Philsworld

Ok “Jesus”
You ain’t Jesus and Jesus never taught the heresy of your SDA CULT.

Ellen White and her brainwashed legion insult Christ.
You sir are a legalist follower of her- her son, plain and simple.

She’s made you twice the son of hell she was, according to Jesus’s own words and you go out of your way to stumble God’s children.

The millstone is actually “better” for you than what may be coming as you attempt to stumble His children from His flock of children.

Deal with that.
You have just been warned.
Repent.

::clapping the dust off of my sandals::

...that is all


683 posted on 06/20/2023 12:58:01 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved wth, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: unlearner

——>The desire to put Gentile believers in bondage to obey a command that was never given to them to keep (i.e. physical rest on the Sabbath), is to deny that it was a sign between God and His covenant people Israel, and it is a repudiation of the true meaning of the Sabbath for believers who rest in Christ spiritually. Further, when this error is elevated to become part of a way of salvation, those who promote it become cursed by God for preaching a false Gospel.

https://www.the-ten-commandments.org/old_and_new_covenants.html

....So what about the Gentiles? Today there is the Israel of God (Galatians 6:16) and the Israel after the flesh (1 Corinthians 10:18). The Israel of the flesh are those that are Jews by birth. The Israel of God is anyone who belongs to Christ and is under the New Covenant. There are many Christians who do not understand that if we are Christ’s then we are spiritual Jews and the Israel of God. The New Covenant was also ONLY made with ISRAEL. If one chooses to reject this truth then they cannot be under the New Covenant. Note carefully the following scriptures.

Romans 9:6-8 “Not as though the word of God has taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: 7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall your seed be called. 8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.”

In the above passage, Paul states that the children of the flesh (Jews by birth) are not the children of God but the children of the promise are. But who are the children of the promise now? The following passage explains this in a way that cannot possibly be misunderstood.

Galatians 3:28-29 “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus. 29 And if you be Christ’s, then are you Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

When the Jews rejected God’s message from Stephen (Acts 6:8-7:60, see Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy) and stoned him, the following statement became fact. He is not a Jew which is one outwardly, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly and so if we are God’s children then we are Abraham’s seed and therefore children of Israel and heirs according to the promise. See also Romans 2:28-29 and Isaiah 41:8.


684 posted on 06/20/2023 1:08:13 PM PDT by Philsworld (Saints are saints and angels are angels, except when they're called saints. )
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To: Philsworld

“But it certainly includes them, and therefore it includes the literal, original, moral 7th-day-Sabbath, as written by the finger of Jesus Christ.”

The tablets of stone and the sign-Sabbath written on it were given to Israel. Gentiles were not the recipients but merely witnesses of the sign and of the light to the Gentiles from Israel.

Which is greater, tablets of stone written upon by God that pronounce judgment on the whole world, or the hearts of those who rest in Christ on which God has written His law of love and faith?

Even the enemies of Christ can keep the outward rest of the sign-Sabbaths, but they do not enter into the rest of Christ spoken of in Hebrews.


685 posted on 06/20/2023 1:08:40 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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To: unlearner

>>>>Wow. You think you’re going to be martyred for resting on the Sabbath?>>>>

Wow, how deep you are! I can see your Bible scholarship. Deep mind you have.

Read Daniel 3 and 6. You might figure out it’s about worship and authority......not a day. Same in Revelation, the issue is Worship. Try going deep once in your life. You don’t have to be shallow all the time.


686 posted on 06/20/2023 1:15:40 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: unlearner

>>>Even the enemies of Christ can keep the outward rest of the sign-Sabbaths, but they do not enter into the rest of Christ spoken of in Hebrews.>>>>

Oh you mean the Hebrews that says there REMAINS a sabbath? That Hebrews?

Your such a scholar, you talked yourself into thinking there’s no rest in the Sabbath day....Jesus made unrest for man? LOL....u are hilarious.


687 posted on 06/20/2023 1:17:40 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: unlearner

>>>>Wow. You think you’re going to be martyred for resting on the Sabbath?>>>>

You think you hate the Sabbath now, wait till you are losing everything and need someone to blame for not going along with you and the Pope.....Revelation 12:17, that’s some serious wrath for those who keep the commandments of God that you gonna have.....wow.


688 posted on 06/20/2023 1:24:25 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: SheepWhisperer
My SDA cult? Well, here's my "cult", as described by John in Revelation:

Revelation 12: 17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Those who habitually break and hate the 7th-day-Sabbath, are currently excluded from God's remnant church.

And heaven, ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE.

Revelation 22:14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

689 posted on 06/20/2023 1:28:13 PM PDT by Philsworld (Saints are saints and angels are angels, except when they're called saints. )
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To: Philsworld

My SDA cult? Well, here’s my “cult”, as described by John in Revelation:

....AAAND...I didn’t read beyond that... “Jesus”
,,,,

SDA CULT AIN’T IN REVELATION.

Did Ellen tell you to type that garbage?

Laughing at the brainwashing, yet crying inwardly for your lost state.

“...that is all” means THAT IS ALL.

Good day


690 posted on 06/20/2023 1:31:50 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved wth, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: SheepWhisperer

....AAAND...I didn’t read beyond that...

Most haters of God’s law wouldn’t. You are no exception.


691 posted on 06/20/2023 1:38:09 PM PDT by Philsworld (Saints are saints and angels are angels, except when they're called saints. )
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To: Philsworld

You judge me NEVER.


692 posted on 06/20/2023 1:42:56 PM PDT by SheepWhisperer (Get involved wth, or start a home fellowship group. It will be the final church. ACTS 2:42-47)
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To: Philsworld

“He is not a Jew which is one outwardly, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly and so if we are God’s children then we are Abraham’s seed and therefore children of Israel and heirs according to the promise.”

If ONLY you believed this!

Both the signs of circumcision and sign-Sabbath physical rest were outward symbols of God’s covenant with the descendants of Abraham and Israel (i.e. Jacob). Both apply SPIRITUALLY to SPIRITUAL Israel. Colossians puts Sabbaths in the same category as circumcision. Both apply to the heart. We are to be circumcised in heart. We are to honor the Sabbath by ceasing from fleshly works and receiving the rest Christ promised to those who come to Him.

Outwardly Gentiles DO NOT BECOME JEWS!

Galatians 2:11-20 NKJV
Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. “But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is Christ therefore a minister of sin? Certainly not! For if I build again those things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. For I through the law died to the law that I might live to God. I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.

Here Paul clearly shows that Jews and Gentiles continue to be distinct groups in the external sense. Spiritually Jews and Gentiles are one in Christ. Same for male and female. But each of these groups continue to exist and have distinct roles.

It is very clear that Jews continued to observe the Law of Moses and Gentiles did not. This applied especially to circumcision. And we can see here that Gentiles continued to live differently from the Jews, even after they trusted in Christ for salvation. There is no evidence anywhere in the Bible or history that the apostles instructed or commanded Gentile converts to physically rest on the Sabbath. Never.

Gentiles did not get circumcised. They did not start eating an all-Kosher diet. And they did not start observing Sabbath physical rest.

God NEVER gave either the sign of circumcision or the sign of Sabbath physical rest to the Gentiles. Gentiles only had to rest physically on the Sabbath when in the land of Israel.

In Acts 19 we see that Paul preaching repentance from idolatry resulted in an uproar because the craftsmen of Ephesus were getting rich off of their promotion of idols.

Yet the apostles gave instruction to slaves who became believers, including those who had unbelieving masters. They also wrote to believing masters. A whole book of the Bible is written to Philemon (a believing master) about Onesimus (a slave who was a new convert to Christ). Never once did they mention the duty to rest on the Sabbath. Can you imagine the uproar it would have caused if the apostles had preached that all the Gentiles should repent of not physically resting every Sabbath and that the Romans should let their slaves rest?

Do you know why that uproar never happened? Because the apostles never taught this. And do know why they never told the slaves to physically rest on the Sabbaths? Because it wasn’t something commanded to them by God.


693 posted on 06/20/2023 1:47:29 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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To: vespa300

You are what the Bible calls a mocker.

It’s not a kind label. It reveals an extreme form of pride and stubbornness from which men rarely escape the judgment of Hell.

To top it off, I have defended every claim I’ve made with the Bible. And you are entirely unable to refute ANY of them. This shows that your mockery is directed at the Bible. You don’t show the Bible any respect.

You don’t keep the Sabbath. You don’t even know what it is about.


694 posted on 06/20/2023 1:51:49 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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To: vespa300

“Oh you mean the Hebrews that says there REMAINS a sabbath? That Hebrews?”

The book of Hebrews in MY Bible says to honor the Sabbath by spiritually resting. Maybe you should read chapters 3 and 4.

The enemies of Christ physically rested on the Sabbath, but they did not honor the Sabbath. Neither do you. You don’t even know what the Sabbath means.


695 posted on 06/20/2023 1:56:08 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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To: unlearner

——>Which is greater, tablets of stone written upon by God that pronounce judgment on the whole world, or the hearts of those who rest in Christ on which God has written His law of love and faith?

Christ wrote His moral law on the tablets of stone, then put them in our minds and hearts.

It’s amazing to me that you cannot grasp the realization that all who claim to be of Christ, are “spiritual Israel”. Incredible.

Here’s something you may be interested in reading. Free to you.

https://www.tastethehoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sabbath-in-the-NT-Bacchiocchi.pdf


696 posted on 06/20/2023 1:58:33 PM PDT by Philsworld (Saints are saints and angels are angels, except when they're called saints. )
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To: vespa300

Lol. You think I’d persecute you for resting on the Sabbath?

I think you should physically rest on the Sabbath if you are able because you are “fully convinced in [your] own mind” that God wants you to do this. Maybe you’ll seek God on some Sabbath and actually come to learn what it means and be converted and saved. Maybe you’ll be rescued from a false Gospel of salvation by the works of the flesh. I won’t hold my breath considering your current hard-heartedness and mockery of God. But you’re alive and there is therefore a little hope.

You don’t keep or honor the Sabbath now. You don’t understand it now. You’re NOT what you claim to be— “those who keep the commandments of God” because if you knew God or Christ you wouldn’t be spreading a false Gospel that leaves out resting in Christ’s finished work for salvation. You wouldn’t preach salvation through the Law rather than salvation by grace.


697 posted on 06/20/2023 2:03:53 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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To: unlearner; vespa300

——>The book of Hebrews in MY Bible says to honor the Sabbath by spiritually resting. Maybe you should read chapters 3 and 4.

Better look again.

https://www.tastethehoney.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Sabbath-in-the-NT-Bacchiocchi.pdf

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Literal Sabbathkeeping. Further support for a literal understanding of Sabbathkeeping is provided by the historical usage of the term “sabbatismos— sabbath rest” found in Hebrews 4:9. This term occurs only once in the New Testament, but is used several times as a technical term for Sabbathkeeping in post-canonical literature by Plutarch, Justin, Epiphanius, the Apostolic Constitutions and the Martyrdom of Peter and Paul. (69)

A. T. Lincoln acknowledges that in each of the above instances “the term denotes the observance or celebration of the Sabbath. This usage corresponds to the Septuagint usage of the cognate verb sabbatizo (cf. Ex 16:23; Lev 23:32; 26:34f.; 2 Chron 36:21), which also has reference to Sabbath observance. Thus the writer to the Hebrews is saying that since the time of Joshua an observance of Sabbath rest has been outstanding.”(70) We would conclude then that both the reference to cessation from work found in v. 10 and the term “sabbatismos—Sabbathkeeping” used in v. 9 make it abundantly clear that the writer is thinking of a literal Sabbath observance.


698 posted on 06/20/2023 2:07:30 PM PDT by Philsworld (Saints are saints and angels are angels, except when they're called saints. )
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To: Philsworld

“Christ wrote His moral law on the tablets of stone, then put them in our minds and hearts.”

2 Corinthians 3:3-6 NKJV
Clearly you are an epistle of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh, that is, of the heart. And we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

1 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Romans 8:5-8 NKJV
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Christ’s enemies physically rested on the Sabbath, but they did not honor it or Him.

You don’t keep the Sabbath or know what it means.


699 posted on 06/20/2023 2:11:01 PM PDT by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022 . )
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To: unlearner; vespa300
---->Lol. You think I’d persecute you for resting on the Sabbath?

Revelation 14:6And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 7Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

Where does this terminology come from? Any guesses? Hmmm?

700 posted on 06/20/2023 2:11:08 PM PDT by Philsworld (Saints are saints and angels are angels, except when they're called saints. )
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