And we will commit holy jihad on challenges to the contrary!!! psst...how do we, uh, practice the sabbath?
Damn, I was hoping beer was involved in there somewhere. Will I be a heretic if I just do some stretching and then drink beer while watching the scrimmage?
I was a raised a 7th-Day Adventist until I was 7, and my extended family has ministers and lay people in the church still. Adventists believe the Sabbath is as Genesis says it is, on the seventh day, or Saturday. It begins at Friday night sundown and carries on until sundown the following day. I haven't been an Adventist for three decades, but when I find myself in a religious/spiritual mood, I celebrate the Sabbath from Friday eve through Saturday sundown, and enjoy the day as a rest from a world full of troubles. Didn't Paul change the day to Sunday to appease various populations in the Roman Empire? I don't remember how it changed, but Saturday, for me, is still the day.
The Israelite God who is the Christian God told the Israelites that Saturday is his day, yet most Christians dont observe it.
Yeah, I knew where you were going with the thread. Why not tell the Christians to stop making graven images too, as long as you're jousting at windmills.
Christians have some good ways to get around the issue of what you called graven images. But not the Sabbath. Its basically some guys decided on Sunday and suddenly the Sabbath is forgotten.
Why is it OK to 'get around' some OT commandments but not others? And didn't Jesus rise on a Sunday? You think that might have a little something to do with it?
I dont know if it ok. But some say that the OT laws were just for the Israelites. I thought it was because some Roman god had that as his day.
What do you say? Personally, I think the OT laws expired right around the time iron replaced bronze, but that's just me. That was kind of the point Norsk Troll was making by bringing up Thors Day.
The commandments in the OT, as you call it, are for the Jews with the exception of the 7 Noahide laws contained therein.
What about this: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the law..." Matt. 5:17-18 Jesus doesn't appear to setting aside the Sabbath Commandment here.
yes, and then Paul said, "don't worry about the commandments." Are you saying that Christians still believe that the 613 commandments are still applicable? If so, that will surprise the Kosher industries.