Yes, and Jesus did so in obedience to the Law he was fulfilling at that time - the time prior to Calvary and Pentecost, the time prior to the realization of the Law's testimony and witness, the time prior to what the Law foreshadowed was realized, the time prior to the law being abrogated.
Ephesians 2:13-16
13But now in Christ Jesus you who previously were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14For he himself is our peace, who made both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the dividing wall, 15by abolishing in his flesh the hostility, which is the Law composed of commandments expressed in ordinances, so that in himself he might make the two one new person, in this way establishing peace; 16and that he might reconcile them both in one body to God through the cross, by it having put to death the hostility.
The hostility which is the Law expressed in ordinances was abolished in Christ's flesh when he died and was resurrected as the perfect, blemish-free sacrifice
after Matthew 24:20. Which part of that Pauline commentary isn't understood?
Yes, they did. AND Paul, who was also an apostle, instructed his readers there was liberty to do otherwise. You are not dealing with that fact. You can post all the selected verses citing the sabbath you like but you're avoiding the salient points that conflict with the Judiazation of New Testament scripture, the nature of the covenant of Christ, and the facts of history. Half of scripture never proves anything.
They are select verses. You are selecting them. You are selecting them in neglect (or ignorance) of their
inherent contexts: They were Jews and we are not, most of those verses are statements made prior of the resurrection, all of those verses exist within the context of their fulfillment, the resurrection, and the new covenant, and the fact God gave Paul a new revelation for those in Christ (both Jew and Gentile) that provided liberty that did not exist in the Mosaic Code prior to Calvary. Scripture is not selective.
You are using it selectively. You are not addressing the many verses I have selected for your consideration; the many verses I have selected to show your selective use of scripture. When
whole scripture is examined (all the scriptures you select and all the scriptures I select) then Adventists demand everyone practice the seventh day sabbath proves untenable.
Seventh Day Adventists have liberty to honor one day more highly than the others. I do not say their practice of honoring the sabbath is heretical.
It is the demand everyone else do so that is unscriptural. Adventists have liberty to continue abiding by the seventh day sabbath as long as they do so honoring God
and do not judge others who do things differently. You,
@Hobie, have my blessing to take your day of rest on Saturday. You do not have my blessing
or God's to demand I do so.
I comepltely agree and nothing I have posted should be construed in any way to suggest otherwise. I have already addressed the pre-Law nature of the seventh day sabbath.
You have been ignoring all that content.
I completely agree and nothing I have posted should be construed in any way to suggest otherwise, but it is you, not me, who has been setting aside portions of God's word.
Genesis 2:2-3 foreshadowed Christ's death and resurrection. God rested on the seventh day CANNOT be construed to ignore the fact God worked on that day by creating that day!!! Similarly, Genesis 2:2 CANNOT be read and understood to conflict with the FACT Jesus (who is God) worked on the Sabbath and the sabbath. God had His Son die on the Passover Sabbath, lay in the grave on the seventh day sabbath
WHILE GOD SAW TO IT THAT HIS BODY DID NOT DECAY!!! (which is a lot of work) and then resurrect him on the first day of the week.
Not a single verse you have quoted or cited exists apart from those facts.
Your lack of whole-scripture exegesis is deplorable. Your allegiance to SDA teaching over the whole of God's word is idolatrous. The attempt to use SDA doctrine as an agent by which you presume to stand as judge over all other Christians is putrid self-aggrandizement for which many in the past have been struck dead by God.
And it is all so very unnecessary. Keep the sabbath, if you want to do so but do so with the knowledge and understanding the sabbath existed as a foreshadowing of Christ in whom we now find our rest 24/7. Keep the sabbath in honor of God. Keep the sabbath but do so without judging ANYONE in Christ who honors days differently than you do.
Romans 14:5-10
(excerpted to focus on the salient content)
One person regards one day above another, another regards every day
alike. Each person must be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord.......... and gives thanks to God. For not one of us lives for himself, and not one dies for himself; for if we live, we live for the Lord, or if we die, we die for the Lord; therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and lived again, that He might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you regard your brother with contempt? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
God, through the words of Paul's Romans epistle, explicitly stated one person regards one day above another, another regards every day alike
as an acceptable practice!!!!! It wasn't the previously held normal operating procedure, but God's demands and expectations changed 1) with Calvary
(because God had fulfilled His covenant promises and fulfilled all His foreshadowed revelation and all His Law), and 2) because as God brought outsiders in/to the body of His resurrected Son.
Those are God's words.
Stop setting them aside.
I happen to live a fairly privileged life when it comes to the seventh day sabbath. I rest on Saturdays AND I rest on Sundays. God has seen fit to bless my financially and skillfully so that I can do both AND
to do good and
help others in need as He leads on both days. He has, in a sense, been preparing me my entire life to do exactly that. I'm not sure engineers, or accountants, or carpenters or plumbers can do the same thing, but if a person is in a "helping profession" his limitations and liberties differ.
Christians in the helping professions learn things most people never need to learn because we are made to serve others in a way that is physically, psychologically, soulfully, relationally, and spiritually demanding. On top of that hubris is always a trap waiting to be sprung on us by our own arrogance. We learn the necessities of relevant liberties and boundaries because we do NOT have a license to help everyone in need any time we want just because we can.
I have saved lives on the sabbath.
That fact is not an entitlement to do as I wish. Nor is it an entitlement to impose my life, the privileges, the blessings and demands
given to me by God on others.
I say this because if we were to abide by the letter of the law then it is
you who come up short in comparison to me
, unless do ALL that the sabbath laws require as asserted by the entirety of scripture and not just the verses you like to select to justify your practice.
So.....
Give consideration to the contexts that exist for every verse you've quoted because abiding by the letter of the law at the expense of all else God has said about that Law is, in fact, legalism. Ignoring the post-Calvary conditions is, in fact, Judaization. Selective use of scripture is, in fact, sloppy exegesis. You have liberty to practice the seventh day sabbath.
It's your liberty, not your requirement. The Law enslaves when it is not understood in Christ. You have liberty to practice the seventh day sabbath as long as you do so honoring God and do not judge those who do things differently. It's not your keeping the seventh day sabbath that is the problem. It's the demand everyone do like you do that is the problem.
