St. SteVen
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Probably because the common understanding was that it referred to Sunday. Not the seventh day Sabbath.SS, up until about 25 or 30 years ago virtually no one believed it had anything to do with the 4th commandment, except for maybe rich kids going to forward-thinking seminaries.
There was some pretty good white papers by the church (GCI ) We Believe | Grace Communion International ResourcesI've asked repeatedly for someone to post some scholarly work dated from the mid 20th century or earlier citing the nullification of the 4th commandment. I haven't had a single taker.
I couldn't find the resources that I found earlier. But, this was the church originally started by Herbert W. Armstrong. (Radio Church of God)
That became the Worldwide Church of God, which then splintered into hundreds or thousands of offshoots when
the top leadership put an end to Armstrong-ism. Grace Communion International - Wikipedia
"Grace Communion International, formerly named the Radio Church of God and the Worldwide Church of God..."
Anyway. They had the most scholarly work I had seen on the subject. For what it's worth.
I think this is the scripture typically used to make that claim.I asked him about a year ago if he'd ever heard of the Ten Commandments being nailed to the cross. He said "What?!"
"... having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness..." to what?
Colossians 2:13-15 NIV
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh,
God made you[a] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,
14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness,
which stood against us and condemned us;
he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities,
he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.[b]
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