There is no temple, there are not priests, there are no gatherings 3 times a year.
How can keeping the Sabbath only make a person more righteous than those who praise Jesus' name every day of the week?
2007-11-13 05:29:33 · 11 answers · asked by realchurchhistorian 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
God gave us the Sabbath day, not man. Satan has always tried to counterfeit the word of God. This is why so many people have been deceived into so called false doctrines that are not rooted in Christ and his Holy word.
God says Baptism by Immersion, but satan says sprinlkling will do.
God says, his coming will be literal, but satan comes along and says it will be secret.
God says the dead no not anything. Satan says that the dead know what the living are doing.
God says Fornication and adultery is sin, Satan comes along and says common law is acceptable.
God says I am the Lord thy God, Satan comes along and says worship me.
God says, I spoke the world into existence by my word, but Satan comes along and says it all happen by blind chance called the Big Bang and then Evolution.
God says keep the Sabbath(Saturday) Holy. Satan comes along and says that it has been changed to Sunday.
Satan's master plan is to counterfeit everything that God has said and done.
Humans must choose. Choose God's plan or Satan's plan.
Keep the true Sabbath holy. (Exodus 20:8-11). It has never been changed by God. Stand for truth even if you must stand alone.
2007-11-14 07:09:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our bodies are the "temple" where the Spirit resides; Christ is our High Priest; and the gatherings of the OT 3 times a year were to point forward to Christ, who has already come. However, the 7th-day Sabbath was instituted at Creation as a memorial to it, and God Himself blessed and sanctified that day alone. He did not bless any other day of the week. This is a perpetual reminder of Creation to us. If the Christian churches throughout history had kept the Sabbath, there would be no "theory of evolution" today, because all humanity would have had one day in seven to contemplate the works of God in nature, which would have reinforced their knowledge of Him every single week.
There is no command anywhere in Scripture that says to worship on the pagan Sun-day. Everyone in the Bible, from Adam to John the Revelator, including Christ Himself and all His apostles, both Jews and Gentiles, worshipped on the 7th-day Sabbath. That didna't change until a few hundred years after Christ's assumption, when the Catholic Church forced a pagan tradition on all of Christianity. This tradition lasted for almost 2,000 years, but it's still just a human tradition, not the command of God. I prefer to obey God rather than Men. People think that they worship on Sunday to honor Christ's resurrection, but that is not what Christ asked us to do in honor of His resurrection. Baptism is is symbolic of Christ's death, burial and resurrection.
2007-11-13 05:41:36 · answer #2 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good point, however, how can you justify equality of women and still retain a belief in the New Testament? Paul is pretty clear in 2 Timothy 2:11-16 about the roles of women in society. Do you follow that teaching?
If so, you are a bigot according to the society you live in.
There are many doctrinal beliefs that surround the bible, because it is exceedingly unclear and even people who spend their whole lives studying it disagree about its meaning. It clearly cannot be relied on for truth, and attempting to do so, leads to arguments like the one you are trying to start.
If God is ok with his will being unclear, why do Christians feel the need to clear it all up?
2007-11-13 05:33:16 · answer #3 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you are in Christ you are a new creation the old has gone the new has come...Christ's death and ressurection freed us from the bondage of the law...if you practice the law as a means of getting to heaven than how can you be free in Christ? His Word says "not my might, not my powers but by my Spirit says the Lord" it also says "it's not by works lest any man should boast"...we should not forsake the assembling together with other believers but we are not bound to the Law of Moses anymore...He whom Christ sets free is free indeed!
2007-11-13 05:34:28 · answer #4 · answered by Notagain 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
James was not telling Christians that if they broke one point of the law they were guilty of all. James was using the old covenant law to demonstrate how the new covenant law of Liberty worked; that if one failed to have love for even one person, they had violated the law of Liberty, no matter how many other people he or she loved.
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2007-11-13 11:43:30 · answer #5 · answered by Hogie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read the 4th commandment my friend. Just keeping it does not mean you are keeping all 10 but not keeping the 4th means you are breaking all 10 according to the text you posted.
2007-11-13 05:33:35 · answer #6 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
James is rough stuff. James and 1 John I find difficult.
2007-11-13 05:35:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Iit doesn't.
There is absolutely nobody in heaven worthy of being there, besides God.
It's not a question of righteousness that gets one into heaven. It's accepting the gift God gave us in his son Jesus.
2007-11-13 05:32:31 · answer #8 · answered by doug 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it doesn't in any way make a person better than another.
2007-11-13 05:34:03 · answer #9 · answered by drg5609 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if i knew the answer to that i'd be happy, i have been seraching for answers to this and many other questions for years, still looking. thanks for asking something pertinent and real....kudos
2007-11-13 05:33:04 · answer #10 · answered by jade4e83 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋