Then why are all the churches not keeping the sabbath?
2006-10-04 14:03:32 · 16 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why not just change the church service back to Saturday, is that not simple enough?
2006-10-04 14:04:20 · update #1
Or study at home on the sabbath at least keep it holy
2006-10-04 14:05:09 · update #2
I have to study at home, my town don't have a church that open on Saturday
2006-10-04 14:06:50 · update #3
Jesus never told us the New Sabbath was on Sunday
2006-10-04 14:08:10 · update #4
But Jesus said He was Lord of the SABBATH, and if He is LORD of that day, then ... passing up a Sunday, in order to preach to the GENTILES upon the Sabbath day. ...
2006-10-04 14:11:12 · update #5
That shows he even told the gentiles about the sabbath
2006-10-04 14:11:59 · update #6
The Sabbath is a type or shadow - When Christ fullfilled the law he put and end to it for the believer. The believer lives every day as if it is the Sabbath because we can rest in the assurance of our salvation and we can rest in the fact that faith in Christ has made us righteous in God's eyes. Every day my life is in Christ -so every day is the Sabbath.
2006-10-04 14:14:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Although many today refer to the Sabbath as Sunday, the Sabbath of the Bible was on Saturday. Even though many think of Sunday as the weekend, most modern calendars show Sunday to be the first day of the week. In the Old Testament, the Jews were commanded to rest on the Sabbath. Since Christians are not under the law, we are not commanded to keep it. Hebrews 8:6,7,13 ...He [Christ] is also Mediator of a better covenant, which was established on better promises. For if that first covenant [the Law of Moses] had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second....In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away. What Scripture did you take that from? you arent showing the proof of where He said it, if He did?
2006-10-04 21:11:20 · answer #2 · answered by K 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sabbath keeping is an issue throughout the OT so you ask an excellent question. Christians observe Sunday as the Sabbath because Jesus, bringer of the New Covenant/Testament, rose on that eighth day of creation when God's work of salvation was completed.
2006-10-04 21:06:56 · answer #3 · answered by Joe Cool 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
smh73448,
It's just that that question shows a lack of understanding. The Sabbath was a type of something, like so many other things that were practiced in the Old Testament. That is: Types and Shadows of things to come. The Sabbath is the type. The culmination of the Sabbath is the life of faith.
That's Sabbathing. Living the life of faith. Or Faithing.
2006-10-04 21:06:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's a matter of understanding the law that was referred to. Jesus railed at any and all for their blindness and stupidity in adhering to idiotically inconsequential minutae, just as Christians still do today. Meditate on the deeper meaning of the quote you've posted here. If you understood it, you wouldn't have asked about the Sabbath. Jesus also said, "The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath." Stop picking at the splinter in your neighbors eye and remove the log from your own.
2006-10-04 21:09:06 · answer #5 · answered by quietwalker 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Sabbath was a day of rest, and its Americans who forget to take a day off. Church is not on satudays like sabbath, because Sunday is ressurection day. It was a sunday (first day of the week) that Jesus rose from the grave. so it is a celebration day.
2006-10-04 21:06:33 · answer #6 · answered by Char 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The proper translation of that verse shold read more like: "Not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law until the end of the world, or until all things be fulfilled."
Then, through his death and resurrection, Jesus fulfilled all the things in the old testament, set it aside, and left us only with the new covenant of grace, and his church.
2006-10-05 02:08:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
read carefully the next verse
about "fullfillment" of the law
why stop with saturday sabbath observance (as if the name of the day assures us that our "weeks" have been kept track of and uniterrupted since the original week)
why not offer some sacrifice, a dove and a lamb at the time of consecration of a new baby, or, if you are poor, two doves
this is a kind of silly question when the Christian theology is so full of fullfillment of "the Law"
2006-10-04 21:07:22 · answer #8 · answered by enginerd 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He also pointed out that I did not come to destroy the Law but to fulfill it.
We all want to live under Grace and ignore the Law, unless of course we are condemning Gays or collecting tithes.
I'm a Christian Pastor and I agree with you.
Personally I think the Law changed from a physical type to a spiritual type, but it's still there.
2006-10-04 21:40:15 · answer #9 · answered by drg5609 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That means that Jesus would fulfill the Law. At His death on the cross, He said, "It is finished." That was when He fulfilled the whole Law for us. Now we simply cling to Jesus in faith because "all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags."--Isaiah 64:6 Nothing we do is good enough. So He did it all for us.
2006-10-04 21:14:19 · answer #10 · answered by Gail S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋