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To: DouglasKC
That's certainly a post biblical traditional view. Nobody in biblical times thought it wise to overthrow the Lord's sabbaths and institute man made ones.

Oh??

Romans 14

1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. 2One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

5One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

72 posted on 10/10/2010 12:18:31 PM PDT by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
Romans 14 1Accept him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. 2One man's faith allows him to eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3The man who eats everything must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. 4Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand. 5One man considers one day more sacred than another; another man considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6He who regards one day as special, does so to the Lord. He who eats meat, eats to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains, does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7For none of us lives to himself alone and none of us dies to himself alone. 8If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

1.In context the verse you quoted is referring to "days" that have something to do with eating and drinking. This could have been fasting days or a controversy about vegetarianism.

2. When the sabbath of the Lord is being referred to in scipture there are specific greek words that are used...every time. None of these are used in these verses.

3. Paul was accused of many things. But he was never accused of sabbath breaking or teaching others to break the sabbath. If his audience understood that he was advocating this there would have been controversy. He wasn't so there wasn't.

4. Paul's own words affirm that he believed in the validity of the scriptural sabbath of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Act 24:13 Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.
Act 24:14 But this I confess to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the Law and in the Prophets.

5. The notion that this verse supports breaking a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ is traditional revisionism of holy scripture.

73 posted on 10/10/2010 4:28:58 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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