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Most christians celebrate the sabbath on Sunday. Nowhere in the bible is it written that Sunday is the 7th day. Saturday is. Why, especially since it was a catholic pope that made the change?

Working on the sabbath is a mortal sin. You must be put to death if you do. Why is this not enforced?

Do you always send the women from your house during the unclean period?

These are specific laws of god that have not changed, according to the bible. Even if they were changed within the bible, then god made a mistake, and is not unerring. How can you reconcile this?

Romans 10 isn't specific enough to excuse these.

2007-02-08 18:17:22 · 9 answers · asked by Amanda H 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

Wow, I expected better from you people. Gravtol, 10 commandments? Spanky, if the OT is irrelevant, then why have it? The bible is the whole thing OT + NT. If you are a literalist, how can you justify cherry picking the things you like? That's my point.

2007-02-08 18:44:38 · update #1

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Although I agree with you, Do not try to reason logic with faith. You will never win. Arguing about religion is like aruging about who has the better imaginary friend. God, Allah, Zeus, Shiva, Brama, Ra, Horus, Mercury, or "The Great Spirit" have never manifested and said "LISTEN PEOPLE, STOP EF'IN KILLIN EACH OTHER AND LISTEN" as soon as that happens, ill let these wackos boss me around, but until then, its just idiots using mythic stories to pretend they know something about the world.

2007-02-08 18:28:13 · answer #1 · answered by eldeeder 3 · 0 3

You are citing statutes of the nation of Israel which was a theocracy and then became a monarchy. They were the code of the government to govern the nation. There is the law being the ten commandments which do not change. Even among the ten commandments Christ imparted spiritual meaning as doctrine. He redefined murder to include hate. He became our Sabbath rest. So concerning the Sabbath Christ is our Sabbath. Not a day of the week.

About the unclean women this was representative of the underlying spiritual truth concerning any person in relationship to Christ. The feminine represents the bride or the individual believer in relationship to Christ.

The bleeding was unclean because it was dead or dying blood and dead blood was contrary to the life being in the blood. But I do not understand that meaning very well. It's just an idea not to be taken as gospel or backed up sufficiently by scripture. Perhaps as Christians are instructed to put away the unrepentant there is a connection to sin.

God doesn't make mistakes. Naturally God is not going to be completely understood at first glance. In fact He never will be completely understood. I guess a-theists demand a God they can completely understand and thereby surpass or they just refuse to play nice. Too bad for them.

2007-02-08 18:36:24 · answer #2 · answered by David P 3 · 1 1

while I am not a biblical literalist I can still take some of the bite out of this argument (just for fun).

So I will pretend to be the Biblical Literalist.

nowhere in the Bible is it stated that Christians are obligated to observe the sabbath.

It has been stated that the Sabbath is a sign between God and the Nation of Israel.

As such Christians are not committing any moral sin by working on the sabbath because they were never obligated to observe it in the first place.

2007-02-08 18:32:24 · answer #3 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 1 2

Christ did not say, "Sit down and write Bibles and scatter them over the earth, and let every man read his Bible and judge for himself." If Christ had said that, there would never have been a Christianity on the earth at all, but a Babylon and confusion instead, and never one Church, the union of one body. Hence, Christ never said to His Apostles, "Go and write Bibles and distribute them, and let everyone judge for himself." That injunction was reserved for the Sixteenth Century, and we have seen the result of it. Ever since the Sixteenth Century there have been springing up religion upon religion, and churches upon churches, all fighting and quarreling with one another, and all because of the private interpretation of the Bible.


One cannot have God for his Father, who will not have the Church for his Mother, and likewise, one cannot have the Word of God for his faith who will not have the Church for his teacher. It is the infallible teaching authority of the Church, as promised by Christ, which alone preserves God's Word from erroneous interpretation.

It is Divine Faith alone by which we give honor and glory to God, by which we adore His infinite wisdom and veracity. That adoration and worship is necessary for salvation.

2007-02-09 06:26:01 · answer #4 · answered by cashelmara 7 · 0 0

We aren’t saved by following the law contained in carnal ordinances. We can’t be because God has written the law on our hearts and to go back to the ordinances is to deny the work he has done in us. Concerning the Sabbath, Jesus became our Sabbath and we rest in him every day. We have ceased from our own work. There is no way we can make ourselves righteous by following the law. The day that the weekly worship service is held on is by tradition and it doesn’t take away or add to salvation. It would be an attempt to add to our salvation if we tried to follow it by the law instead of celebrating it daily, which is the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

2007-02-08 18:41:05 · answer #5 · answered by hisgloryisgreat 6 · 1 1

I love questions like this.... it simply shows your ignorance of the grace of God.

The law, in it's entirety was Gods way of showing man that we are in no way perfect, in no way good enough to be equal to God. The law is the standard by which God judges us and He knows that we will fall short. The law is for us to understnad that we fall short.

In His Mercy and Grace, God provided a Saviour. A means by which we are saved from the law. One who accepted the punishment for our sins so that we would not have to.

Now.... to shoot holes in your argument....

Working on the Sabbath is not a mortal sin.... the term "mortal sin" is not in the Bible. In effect all sin is mortal sin because it seperates us from God. God does not quantify sin... one sin is not worse than another, that is man's interpretation of sin.

Let me know when you have something a little more challenging. I'll pray for you.

2007-02-08 18:27:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3 2

Yes the bible is very specific on this matter, Jesus was very specific on this matter. He stated it like this, " I came into the world to abolish the law" which is the law of the OT.

2007-02-08 18:29:01 · answer #7 · answered by spanky 6 · 1 2

Read the New Testament, it explains it all there. Read Hebrews and Romans especially, we are no longer under the Law of the OLD TESTAMENT!

2007-02-08 18:41:25 · answer #8 · answered by great gig in the sky 7 · 1 1

"Ye strain a gnat, and swallow a camel." (with your question)

2007-02-12 13:30:42 · answer #9 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0 0

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