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Even when sabbatarians set out to "keep" the sabbath day holy, are they truly keeping the sabbath day holy? To "keep the sabbath day" as it was required in the Old Testament under the old covenant would involve compliance with specific regulations (Exodus 16:23; 35:3; Leviticus 23:32; Jeremiah 17:21) that were strictly enforced.Who among you are able to keep the sabbath day Holy? You gag on a gnat but you’ll swallow a camel.
No, that is heresy. I believe according to God's word, the only safe belief/practice.Okay, you may believe however you would like ma'am/sir.
Col 1:16 For by him were all things created,' And He said unto them,
The Sabbath was made for man,
And not man for the Sabbath:
Therefore the Son of Man
Is [present tense ongoing (active) indicative, meaning even still now is] Lord of the Sabbath.'
(Mark 2:27-28)
Aaannd?' And He said unto them,
The Sabbath was made for man,
And not man for the Sabbath:
Therefore the Son of Man
Is Lord of the Sabbath.'
(Mark 2:27-28)
There's a perfectly understandable reason for the tension and the passion in relation to this topic. The Sabbath question strikes at the very heart of people's motives and cuts away at their hypocrisy and declarations of faithfulness and belief in the word of God. For millennia this has been the case.
The Sabbath was the identifying mark for the Jews whereby pagan Rome was able to discern between them and other religions, and thus able to persecute them as rebels against the emperor.
Christians were then reluctant to be identified along with the Jews in order to escape persecution, and many gave up the Sabbath in favor of the pagan Sunday.
Sabbath keeping Christians of that time were in the majority, and did suffer, but not by the hand of pagan Rome, but at the hand of the rising papal power who had adopted the Roman day of the sun as her own, and set about enforcing it on the church who outside her jurisdiction, observed the biblical Sabbath.
Today, that battle between the days is going to escalate. Papal Rome in most of her recent encyclicals have magnified and promoted so called Sunday sacredness, and asking world bodies to observe Sunday universally as a day for family, climate change control, environmental regard, and godliness.
This discussion is not going away. It's between the commandments of man by which tradition is enforced by the church, and the commandments of God. This issue is soon to be the major political and religious issue of the age. It will be the dividing issue between those who obey God, and those who don't, but claim they do.
What would you expect of the approach of the mark of the papal beast if not passionate debate and division?
Yes, God sees the heart. He sees that when a Christian reads Exodus 20:8, the heart says, ignore that, it's not for me. He sees that when the Christian reads Isaiah 58, he thinks in his heart, that's wonderful, it's prophetic for the Christian Church. But God sees that he stops reading at verse12, and his heart says, that's not for me. God sees that when a Christian reads the scriptures, far too many baulk at God's word when it requires obedience and sacrifice. That is not fine.Yeah, ReChoired. I see no reason in fighting or debating. But if people desire to believe how they do that is fine. It is for us to love as Christians, and it is the heart that God sees. Not the outward expression of any type of holding of sabbath days or whatever.
KJV 1 Corinthians 5:7I understand what your saying. And I've heard and read all the arguments.
Here's the thing..
Are we required to still keep the passover?
Hugs
KJV 1 Corinthians 5:7
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
The above scripture... Clear, concise, accurate, beyond debate.
Where is the scripture that is equally clear and concise, saying Christ our Sabbath?
Generic per se nonsense based on non-fact non-truth non-understanding.
A cowardly trick to avoid to get to grips with each individual Scripture. You're all BLUFF.The "ordinances" in Colossians 2 deals with "shadows", such as the daily "meat and drink" offerings of a worldly sanctuary and carnal ordinances, the seasonal "feast days", the monthly "new moons", and the year based "sabbaths", in the singular, every 7 and 50th years,
>>The Sabbath of the LORD thy God is always called "my [as in God's] sabbaths", and the others in Leviticus 23:4 onward are called "your [the peoples] sabbaths" [Leviticus 26:35 KJB] which are "beside [given in addition to] the sabbaths of the LORD" [Leviticus 23:38 KJB].
Even when sabbatarians set out to "keep" the sabbath day holy, are they truly keeping the sabbath day holy? To "keep the sabbath day" as it was required in the Old Testament under the old covenant would involve compliance with specific regulations (Exodus 16:23; 35:3; Leviticus 23:32; Jeremiah 17:21) that were strictly enforced.