Posted on 05/04/2015 6:23:01 AM PDT by Gamecock
The reason why Christians worship on Saturday is because they believe that Moses celebrated the Sabbath on Saturday. Of course, there is no proof of that because the specific day isn’t mentioned in Scripture.
Thank you! On this 30th Day of the Omer.
**I’m a Pro football fan and have discussed this issue with the Almighty for decades. Still can’t get him to change it up.***
Perhaps you need to pray for your heart to be changed. ;-)
It shouldn’t really matter as long as the better part of that day is given over to God.
And allah be damned.
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Thanks! Thirty days, which is four weeks and two days of the Omer.
Uh, your link proves nothing. The “L-rd’s day” does not say “Sunday.” Circular reasoning.
Please read Justin Martyr on the Early Church.
Mark 2:25 27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
Mark 2:25 27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
I’ve read Justin Martyr many times.
I also know that he was a dedicated anti-Semite, which would explain a lot of the early church’s attitude of hate toward all things Jewish, including the Sabbath.
Regardless, why quote someone who lived in the 2nd Century? What is wrong with the 1st Century account? Have you not read the book of Acts? Have you not read Paul’s own declaration in Acts 28, where he says that he had never abandoned the Law and traditions of the Jews?
Dr. Bacchiocchi: “From Sabbath to Sunday is a translation and an adaptation of my Italian doctoral dissertation, originally presented at and published by the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1977. The investigation establishes that the change from Saturday to Sunday began approximately one century after the death of Christ, as a result of an interplay of political, social, pagan and Christian factors. The change in the day of rest and worship was not merely a change of names or of numbers, but rather a change of meaning, authority and experience....”
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No, the legalisms of the Old Testament were not fulfilled, let me explain before you jump all over me.
Because of Adams Sin and because the law is that no imperfect being can be in the presence of God and because Adam died and we are his descendants we too must die.
God instituted a law of sacrifice to pay for our sins. It is our sin that makes us imperfect, it is Adams Transgression that makes us mortal.
the law of sacrifice has always been that God would send a perfect Son to earth and He would take our punishment for our sins. Because He did not deserve any punishment, He was perfect He could take our punishment for us.
the law of sacrifice of animals was not to forgive sin, not at all it was simply to remind us of the Gift that God would be giving to man. To say the law is fulfilled only means that the law of sacrifice has been completed, or that the sacrifice has been made. The law for instance that God gave Moses on Sinai is still in place and we are bound by it.
If we accept Christ and then break the law we are not blameless. we can beg Christ to forgive and keep us His but it means truly repenting to be able to have that “Grace” that allows Him to apply His punishment to our debt. If we break the law over and over then we have not really repented and that Grace will not apply to us because we are liars. Lying is against Gods law. Breaking that law has consequences, lying to God has horrible consequences.
We no longer have to count how many steps we take on The Sabbath but there still is law we must obey.
Yes. Total atonement on the Cross— a free gift if only you accept as true Jesus as the Son of God.
one century?
No way.
In Acts — it happens soon after Christ’s Ascension.
I will not jump all over you because I agree with you. I think you may need to direct your comments to the person to whom I was replying. The law doesn’t help us; it just leaves us helpless. It doesn’t justify us; it just leaves us guilty before the judgment bar of a holy God. By its operation, it leaves us with no other option than to run to Christ on the cross – the cure for our otherwise fatal disease of sin. Grace to the humble; the Law to the proud.
Really? Why does Luke use the otherwise superfluous “a Sabbath’s days journey” in both Luke and Acts?
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