i've read & participated in dozens of theological Christian & pseudo-christian forums over the last 15 years, and something that seems to come up ubiquitously, is that many people inform me i am damned to hell if i do not physically observe the sabbath day of the Mosaic law.
100% of the time, if the discussion is pursued, this passage is given as "evidence" that it's sabbath-or-damnation:
you will typically find zero on new moon festival observance.
this puzzles and frightens me -- this passage, if it is commanding eternal sabbath-keeping, is likewise commanding eternal new-moon-festival keeping -- and it lists the new moon first! with primacy!
likewise the days of creation -- the moon is created on yom 4, but it isn't until yom 7 that God rests. ordinal primacy again, the new moon is before the sabbath!
another striking thing is that these kind souls who mean to save my soul by commanding me to keep sabbath invariably argue that the sabbath commandment predates the law, therefore it is very great, and remains even if in Christ the law is taken away -- yet the new moon festival is not even written in the law but it is still presumed in the psalms, in Isaiah, and in Colossians. by the sabbatarians own arguments, the new moon festival is even greater than sabbath because it is so evident that it must be kept it need not even be written in the law!
the Hebrew calendar by which Leviticus is arranged is determined by the moon not by the sabbath -- isn't this for yet another witness saying it is greater?
why are there no threads on new moon festival??
how am i supposed to keep it?
am i going to hell because of my ignorance of this special ceremonial day?
who is wise among you; who can teach me these things?
please help
100% of the time, if the discussion is pursued, this passage is given as "evidence" that it's sabbath-or-damnation:
And it shall come to pass
That from one new moon to another,
And from one sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,
says the LORD.
(Isaiah 66:23)
go to any 'christian' discussion board and you will find dozens and dozens of threads espousing sabbath-keeping.That from one new moon to another,
And from one sabbath to another,
All flesh shall come to worship before Me,
says the LORD.
(Isaiah 66:23)
you will typically find zero on new moon festival observance.
this puzzles and frightens me -- this passage, if it is commanding eternal sabbath-keeping, is likewise commanding eternal new-moon-festival keeping -- and it lists the new moon first! with primacy!
likewise the days of creation -- the moon is created on yom 4, but it isn't until yom 7 that God rests. ordinal primacy again, the new moon is before the sabbath!
another striking thing is that these kind souls who mean to save my soul by commanding me to keep sabbath invariably argue that the sabbath commandment predates the law, therefore it is very great, and remains even if in Christ the law is taken away -- yet the new moon festival is not even written in the law but it is still presumed in the psalms, in Isaiah, and in Colossians. by the sabbatarians own arguments, the new moon festival is even greater than sabbath because it is so evident that it must be kept it need not even be written in the law!
the Hebrew calendar by which Leviticus is arranged is determined by the moon not by the sabbath -- isn't this for yet another witness saying it is greater?
why are there no threads on new moon festival??
how am i supposed to keep it?
am i going to hell because of my ignorance of this special ceremonial day?
who is wise among you; who can teach me these things?
please help