heretoeternity,
Please pay careful attention and watch as I knock down
each and every one of your arguments, all without adding a single word to scripture, without breaking scripture, and without failing to harmonize with the the entire counsel of scripture.
Do you think you can do the same? I know that you can't.
What you need to ask yourself is
why you can't.
heretoeternity said:
God, wrote the ten commandments of stone by His own hand Exodus 20, with the fourth Commandment being "remember the Sabbath day to keep it Holy...sounds like Upsi you better do a reading of this verse again, for forget the false teachings you have obviously endured...it is part of the Ten Commandments, and uses the word remember to harken His followers back to Genesis 2 when He created the seventh day Sabbath, blessed it, and sanctified it (set it aside for Holy purposes)..that should be good enough for anyone who calls themselves a Christian.
I don't think you are putting much though into this. To start with, why not tell me
who it was that was being told to "remember the Sabbath".
In the meantime, I'm still waiting for you to prove that Christians are still under the old covenant,
without breaking the rules I mentioned.
Can you do that, or can you not?
Paul said in Romans..do we make void the law through faith?
And
neither do I.
The fact that a Christian is no longer under the Mosaic law does not make it void, does it?
Read Romans 7:1-6
carefully and think about what Paul is saying. You will easily see what Paul means by
not being under the law, and yet
not nullifying it in the least.
It gives an illustration of how a woman is freed from the law of adultery through the death of her husband. The reason she had been set free was
not because the law itself was bad,
nor that it was abolished, but rather it was through death that she was set free from it.
Did the law of adultery still exist after she was set free from it? Yes it did!
And then he goes on to say that
we too have been set free through death:
"But now, by
dying to what once bound us, we have been
released from the law so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and
not in the old way of the written code." (verse 6)
Obviously you can "establish" the law (acknowledge that it is good, holy and perfect) without being under it.
Apostle John said in 1st John sin is transgression of the law..(God's law)...so to transgress the law of God is SIN...
What law?
God's law for Christians is the law of Christ, not the 10 commandments. ALL of the NT authors mentions the law of Christ in one form or the other. Where do
any of them say that we are under the 10 commandments? None of them do!
Again, if you want to prove your point then show me by sticking to the rules I mentioned.
If you think the rules are too strict, or are incorrect, then let me know what your objection is. Why haven't you addressed this?
back to Paul again in Romans..do we sin more so grace abounds? God forbid...again very plain...
Oh! Did I say that we should sin?? I suggest you think before you accuse.
And let me ask you this. What, according to scripture, is the antidote for sin?
If your answer it the 10 commandments, then I promise you, you are in for a big surprise!
Apostle John also in 1st John by this we know we are children of God, that we keep His commandments and they are not grievous...even though the vast majority of professing christianity obviously think His commandments are grievious...God does not think they are...
And
what "commandments" was John talking about?
The 10 commandments?
Please, be my guest and explain to me why any apostle of the
New Covenant would be referring to commandments in the
Old Covenant as though we were still under that covenant. We are not!
In the meantime, read what
John himself had to say:
"And
this is his
command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us." (1 John 3:23)
"Remember always, Savlation is through the Son of God, His grace and commandments
You are adding to scripture.
We are under strict orders not to do that, just as we are under orders not to be deceived. And how was mankind originally deceived?
By adding to scripture!
Adam was not the one deceived. It was the woman. And notice how she took the only commandment that was available back then and then added something to it. That, I think, provides a good clue to understanding how mankind has been getting into trouble all throughout history. From the fall of man, to the yeast of the Pharasees, and right on to our present time where we have enormous divisions in Christianity, the problem is still the same.
Never add to God's word.
Never!!!
and not the sungod/satan and his days of sunday, dec 25th and easter all of which are non Biblical and of pagan origin...
That (false) argument has already been dealt with in this thread.
Why are you repeating yourself?
And why do SDAs always seem to ignore everything that contradicts their teaching, and just go back and repeat the same standard arguments no matter what?