Thou shalt not murder and steal is sensible enough, but is working on the sabbath really going to have any significant consequences other than missing football?
Come to think of it, isn't everyone who is working at the stadium breaking the fourth commandment?
2007-09-14 05:03:21 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ya, some of them don't have quite the same kick to them as others.
Don't kill, don't steal, yeah, those make sense.
But the sabbath thing, or coveting your neighbour's bum? WTF?
Why not just put "Thou shalt not swim until an hour after you eat" or maybe something like "Thou shalt wash your hands before eating" - something useful.
Maybe that's why Jesus went and distilled the whole thing down to "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". If you actually follow that one, it pretty much covers all the other commandments.
2007-09-14 05:09:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Ten Commandments of the true God are in Exodus 20:1-17. Is number 4 more important than number 10?
Jesus summarized these Ten Commandments into just two, namely as stated in Matthew 22:37-40: “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” See also Mark 12:30-31 and John 13:34; 15:12, 17.
Since we live in a “multi-cultural” society, there are those who will be offended if Sunday is made a Sabbath day for all. So there is football on Sunday and Christians working at the stadium would be breaking the fourth commandment.
The Holy Spirit confirmed to us that Sunday is the Sabbath day of Christians. He added that for an individual, his Sabbath day is the seventh day from his birth. So if one was born on a Wednesday, his Sabbath day is Tuesday.
We should be like Israel. If it is Sabbath day, it is a rest day and a day for the Lord God. God is asking us one day only per week for Him. How would we feel if He requires that per week, six days should be for Him and just one day for ourselves?
We have to feed our hungry soul and not only our stomach. Give time for the Lord, please. He is just asking only one day per week. Is that too much?
2007-09-14 20:52:29 · answer #2 · answered by Peace Crusader 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians don't follow the Fourth Commandment because things changed with the New Testament. The sabbath is Saturday - 7th Day. Christians have traditionally worshiped on Sunday, but that doesn't make Sunday the sabbath.
2007-09-14 12:10:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Right you are about all those folks working in the stadium. Keeping the Sabbath Holy is actually more important than all the other commandments. God observed the Sabbath when creating the universe. If it is that important to God it has to be in the top ten.
2007-09-14 12:12:03 · answer #4 · answered by Nora Explora 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the "sabbath" is actually Saturday and if I thought it referred to a specific day then I'd agree that it isn't as important as the other commandments. However, I think it has a lot more to do with the importance of taking a rest from our work every week and spending that time focusing our attention on God.
The entire commandment basically says, "for six days you will work, the seventh you will rest"...and I think this is pretty good advice on both sides of the equation. People that devote their time to productive work for six days each week will be able to support themselves and won't have time to engage in unproductive or even destructive behaviors. ...and after six days of hard labor, the human body and mind needs a rest! If people took this advice to heart, they would accomplish far more with their lives and it would significantly reduce (if not eliminate) "burn out". Yes, work is important, but God knows that we also need to make time to rest our bodies and our soul and to recharge our spirit to function most effectively the rest of the week!
Taking time to "smell the roses" may be simplistic but I don't think it is less important advice than "respect others" (i.e., don't kill, don't steal) in terms of our ability to perform at peak efficiency!
2007-09-14 12:25:42 · answer #5 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't put your work before God. God didn't intend us to do no work at all that would be dumb. I mean think about it. Some really strict Christian sects, like orthodox Jews and mayb the Ahmish, cook their meals on the days before the Sabbath so they don't get caught cooking dinner on the Sabbath. Technically driving your car to Church services is an act of work. It takes physical effort to drive a car so that would mean you broke the law of God in order to go worship God. Now if you spent all your time on the Sabbath working and gave NO TIME FOR WORSHIPPING GOD than yes you are braking the 4th Commandment.
2007-09-14 12:16:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God is love and his commandments are the key to love and loving him. He wants to be the only God in your life because he is the only God and you shouldn't bow down to anything else or curse his name. The sabbath is extremely inmportant it was there before human kind was. The sabbath is Gods way of knowing that you are worshiping him and its yor day to spend learning about Him and His word and spending time with Him. The sabbath is the only thing we will take with us to Heaven, there will be a sabbath in heaven not football. If you are a true follower of Christ then you will try to be like Him and Jesus kept the sabbath. The sabbath isn't only for Jews its for all mankind and God expects us to keep it.
2007-09-14 12:14:44 · answer #7 · answered by -.- 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Quite true Marooned...:
The very commandment that says "remember" is forgotten completely.
Let me read a N.T. text from the Aramaic Bible. That was the language spoken by the disciples and Christ, and they are using it today in Palestine."
"It is therefore the duty of the people of God to keep the Sabbath."
"For he who has entered into His rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from His" (Hebrews 4:9,10).
Isaiah also talks of the saints worshiping God each Sabbath throughout eternity: Isaiah 66:25: "From one Sabbath... to another shall all mankind worship before me says the Lord."
It was predicted in Daniel 7:25 that the law concerning TIME would be changed. Satan is very smart to trick people into thinking they obey God by worshiping on resurrection day.
A Bible code tells who would effect these changes. See http://abiblecode.tripod.com
Shalom, peace in Jesus, Ben Yeshua
2007-09-14 12:18:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Can people today be held liable to the conditions of a covenant they were never a party to, and that has lapsed? This covenant was a "contract" between God and Israel.
And it is one thing to say in a command, "You shall not murder" and quite another thing to command, "You shall love your enemy as yourself."
The letter of the law, "you shall not murder" addresses only the act that follows intent. The spirit of the law addresses the intent, for it also declares in this context that hatred is the spirit of murder.
What is truly sad is how few here comprehend the spiritual, seeing as people like yourself are so focused on the physical, letter of that law.
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2007-09-14 12:14:16 · answer #9 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Same with baseball, basketball, hockey, fast food, grocery stores, mini-malls, malls, toll booths, phone and utility companies, movie theaters, and basically everything else anyone in America likes to do.
I guess that's why this commandment doesn't get much attention at church nowadays.
2007-09-14 12:11:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋