the Law was not given to any other people.
And most of the principles associated with those Commandments pertain to us in Christ’s teachings.
Scriptures inform us Christians that there are more deeper aspects to our understanding of the role of the law than you are suggesting. While you intimated correctly, that love fulfills the law, you cannot make that concept as a generalisation for all the law given to Israel. Not can you sort your theory that you are free from the law of God, the Ten Commandments. Here's James talking to you...
KJV James 2:8-11
8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: (
this is exactly what you said)
9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. (
I am not suggesting you do this, but if you do, as James is saying...)
10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. (
And we must keep the whole law, for how can God judge anyone except the law is the standard in the judgement?
So what law is James talking about in these passages?)
11 For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
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Clearly James is talking about the law of God. He is not discussing circumcision, sacrifices, washing of hands, or disposal of offal. He is talking about what he describes as that law which will be used in the judgement...
KJV James 2:12
12 So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
Now. It wasn't me or other Seventh Day Adventists that place the Sabbath law in amongst the Ten Commandments, that same law that is to be used in the judgement. If God, and His Son Who stood on Sinai talking with Moses, saw fit to place the Sabbath on equal footing to the other 9 Commandments, who are we to argue otherwise? Are not the other 9 laws pertinent to all men? Did not Jesus state that the Sabbath was made for all men? Your protests that the Sabbath was only for the Jews is presumption based on circumstantial evidence, whilst ignoring Christ's own words to the contrary. Not only so, but the early church, beginning from the women who after observing the Sabbath "according to the commandment" (Luke 23:56) had intended to dress the body of Jesus on Sunday morning, the first day of the week, continued to observe the Sabbath for centuries until persecuted and bullied out of that practise.
brought us under ‘the Law of Love’….written on hearts, and enforced by a Bible trained conscience.
What law are we free from , and why?
Christians no longer had to circumcise their males or observe a Sabbath.
I see no law in favour of circumcision among the Ten Commandments.
Christians no longer had to circumcise their males or observe a Sabbath. It was not a requirement, but there was no prohibition either…..can you not accommodate that at all?
No. If God placed a Sabbath Commandment among the 10, after declaring it with thunder and lightning and all manner of drama on Mt Sinai, and promoted it with substantial unequalled fervour throughout the remaining of the OT, and if as you say it was only for Jews, then Jews in the NT ought to expect at the very least a "thus saith the Lord' in support of its abolition or change. And as you also said, n there was not a whimper or a whisper from the Jewish legalists regarding any supposed change in the nature of the Sabbath, whether changed or abolished. Which means they had no issue with Jewish Christians regarding that day... Because they never ceased to observe it.
The Sabbath that God blessed and sanctified at the conclusion of his creation in Genesis, is not a literal day of the “week”
So until Sinai the World was observing a 6 day week?
The real Sabbath was for the blessing of all mankind, as it would see the resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous, redeemed by the blood of Christ, to give all opportunity to gain everlasting life.
Conjecture. You are guessing. And the reason you are taking this fishing expedition is because all you have is bait, and nothing more in support of your Babylonian theory.
just know that being fixated on only one small aspect of God’s law
Fixated? One small aspect? And you now admit it is a part of the law. You obviously haven't really read the OT have you. Tell the Lord of the Sabbath that His day and the 4th commandment are only one small aspect. Ask yourself some questions.
If Satan has seen fit to lead his baby, the Antichrist papal power to change the Sabbath from the 7th day to the first, then persecute anyone who chooses to obey the commandments of God as opposed to the commandments of man, and then encourage the entire Protestant world bar one or two small exceptions to follow the papal power in ignoring the 4th Commandment while claiming falsely they are honouring the other 9, why do you think this is? Why do you think the future global apostasy, Babylon the Great, is even now promoting Sunday sacredness in the halls of political power throughout the world, and encouraging penalties for transgressors? Why is it that prophecy informs us that the final remnant of God's people immediately before the second coming are attacked, and a death sentence passed against them, because they keep the commandments of God and have the faith of Jesus. (See Revelation 12,13,14). What specific Commandment do you think bothers them so much?