Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: metmom
How about you post the verse(s) and tell why you think it supports your views?

Where does He say that He means it more if it's one of the Ten Commandments than if it were the rest of the Law?
. The Ten Commandments are separate from all other laws from God. They were instituted at Creation. The ceremonial laws and handwashing and other ordinances were to keep the Jews separate from the other nations and to impress them with purity. The sacrificial system was to show how sin was to be eliminated. They all had a reason for existence but when Jesus came and gave his sacrifice, there were abolished.

"Also, why do all the Sabbath keepers on FR continue to post on Saturdays?" Why did Paul preach and reason with Jews and Greeks on the Sabbath. Your question makes no sense.

71 posted on 03/03/2024 6:40:26 PM PST by BipolarBob (I identify as a Christian Nationalist. Joe Biden hates me.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 67 | View Replies ]


To: BipolarBob; Wuli; Philsworld; metmom; cowboyusa; AppyPappy; Qwapisking; boatbums

First off, I am not a jew, and am not bound by the ten commendments nor the Mosaic law no more than Abraham was.

I follow the teachings of Jesus, and in His teaching I learn I am free from sin in HIM. I do observe the moral teachings Jesus gives us all. Try as you may, you cannot find any passages of the epistles that tell me to follow the Mosaic Law. Period!

Mind you, while He lived and taught, Jesus had to observe all the laws Ann ceremonies so that He could be the perfect sacrifice and thus abolish the Law forever.

As for the idea the Sabbath came from GOD in the beginning, Well, nowhere in the explicit commands of Genesis 1–2 is it stated that humans must honor the Sabbath. Moreover, not only is a command to rest missing, there’s also no mention of a Sabbath. Nor after Noah left the Ark God never stated anything about the Sabbath, It is first mentioned in Exodus for the Israelites to follow.

Instead, the focus is entirely on God for resting, not his creation doing so. Until the Law He gave to Moses. Again, I am not an Israelite, and thus not a Jew. One can find neither an institution of, nor preparation for, the Sabbath. This means any grounding for an obligatory rest must be read back into the text. If you want a command for Sabbath rest, you will have to stick around until God’s people are en route to the Promised Land, where they will be governed by a theocracy.

The case for a creation ordinance gains strength in noncanonical Jewish texts, but not in ways that affirm Sabbath keeping as binding on all people. Excluding Philo, who sought to universalize Jewish teaching, the remaining texts restrict the Sabbath ordinance to Jews.

Jubilees 2:19–21, 31 can state, “the Creator of all things…did not sanctify all peoples and nations to keep sabbath thereon, but Israel alone.” Similarly, in rabbinic literature, it is stated that the seventh day of creation was God’s Sabbath but not humanity’s.

It is said of Jews in Shabb. 16:6–8 that “if a gentile comes to put out the fire, they must not say to him ‘put it out’ or ‘do not put it out,’ since they are not answerable for his keeping the sabbath.” This is because, the Sabbath is a perpetual covenant between GOD and the children of Israel, but not between GOD and the nations of the world.

The Noahic commandments, which governed the behavior of Gentile God fearers, also point to a restricted application of the Sabbath ordinance, for they say nothing about keeping the Sabbath. Only a full-fledged proselyte was expected to join the Jews in observing the Sabbath

I do not become a Jew, I am a gentile believer in Christ. Thus a follower of Christ, not Moses and the Law God handed down for the Israelites to follow.

The example I offered in Acts 15, where the apostolic decrees from Sabbath-keeping Jewish-Christians to Gentile believers, and as I stated, it excluded any mention of Sabbath observance.


75 posted on 03/03/2024 6:52:26 PM PST by OneVike ( Just another Christian waiting to go home)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies ]

To: BipolarBob
The Ten Commandments are separate from all other laws from God. They were instituted at Creation.

In what version of the Bible??????

The written in stone by the finger of God Ten Commandments were given to Moses on Mt. Sinai, which was well after the creation account.

77 posted on 03/03/2024 6:55:08 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 71 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson