SputnikBoy said:
servant: So what are exactly the God's Commandments that John talk's about..
Answer: They are the commandments of Jesus Christ my God. And nowhere among them will be found, for instance, the Fourth Commandment of Exodus 20. It was only a long shadow on the desert floor of legalism pointing to Christ hanging on the cross. When following this shadow we found Christ we saw that this commandment, along with all the rest of the 613, had been nailed to Christ's cross.
Sputnik: Where do you get this stuff? Are you really not aware that God blessed and sanctified at Creation the specific day that became the Sabbath? Are you not aware that the Sabbath command was one of the ten that were carved into stone by the finger of God? Are you not aware that the Sabbath - despite the claim that it was nailed to the cross - was still kept SCORES of years after this event by the very people who should have known that it had been nailed to the cross? How was the 7th-day Creation Sabbath 'a shadow' pointing to Christ? Didn't Creation occur before the fall of man and the need for a Savior?
I'm sorry, servant, you're just NOT making your point with me at all. What exactly - plain English please - ARE those commands of Jesus that we're asked to keep? HOW - in plain English please - are those commandments made manifest in our daily life? And, to your way of thinking, wouldn't the keeping of ANY commandment amount to legalism anyway? You come across as being the all-knowing guru of the New Testament but your vagueness is frustrating to some of us plebs.
servant: Answer to you...
#1 God Blessed and sanctified...
Sputnik, are you not aware first God rested, then AFTER HE RESTED then He sanctified it
The Bible no where says WHEN He sanctified it, just that it was after God rested.
So even if God did sanctify the Sabbath day in Eden, God still did not revealed the Sabbath in Eden because there is absolutely no evidence that anyone kept the Sabbath prior to Exodus 16.
Sputnik: The same 'no evidence' applies also to other commands of God. And yet, God destroyed the world and cities because of 'sin'. What sin?
servant: Are you not aware that God gave the 10 commandments along with the Sabbath to Israel in the wilderness? so why do you argue that the ten commandment law is no longer written on stone, but in the flesh of the human heart?
Sputnik: I don't argue that fact. But, whether carved into stone or carved into the flesh of the human heart ...aren't the results the same? We don't need to consult the lawbooks (tablets of stone) before we choose not to kill, steal, etc. The 'transference' of the law from stone to the heart doesn't mean that we have to ignore the Sabbath.
servant: Yet you don't believe in the New Testiment such as 2 Corinthians 3:3 which says the 10 commandments were abolished and the new Covenant, the law of Christ is written on human hearts.
Sputnik: But I DO believe that the law of Christ is written into human hearts. It's BECAUSE that is the case that we're obedient to the commandments of God without the need to continually consult the lawbook. We do so as a matter of course.
servant: Are you not aware that...
Christians always worshipped on the first day (Sunday)
They state that they stopped keeping the Sabbath to worship on Sunday started with the apostles.
Sputnik: No, I wasn't aware of that, servant. Nowhere in my Bible does it say that the apostles stopped keeping the Sabbath to worship on Sunday. NOWHERE! There are a couple of texts that say that the apostles met on the first day (EVERY DAY, in fact) and even broke bread. I guess they needed to eat every day. But this has nothing to do with the Sabbath at all ...nothing!
servant: Are you not aware that...
None of say they kept the seventh day Sabbath. The only mention of Sabbath keeping was by Eusebius in 300 AD by a cult-sect known as the Ebionites, who Eusebius says also worshipped on the first day. (Ebionites were a cult of Judaizers who enforced circumcision, rejected Apostle Paul’s teachings, denied Jesus' virgin birth and his deity.)
Sputnik: So what? We shouldn't be driven by what 'people' chose to do. And, apparently (above), this cult-sect known as the Ebionites also worshipped on Sunday. Does the fact that they also kept Sunday make them only 'half' a cult-sect, perhaps? So what anyway ...is this piece of information somehow intended to give a 'counterfeit Sabbath (Sunday)' some credibility?
servant: Are you not aware that...
They partook of the Lord’s Supper (communion) every first day.
Sputnik: So?
servant: They called the first day (Sunday) the Lord’s day.
Sputnik: Hmmm ...why so? Did God ever refer to Sunday as the Lord's Day or is it again just PEOPLE that we're using as our example? Here's a text that almost EVERYONE seems to ignore: " ...if you call the Sabbath a delight and the LORD'S HOLY DAY honorable ...(Isaiah 58:13)" This text refers to the 7th-day Sabbath as 'the Lord's Day'. Any comments?
servant: They called the day Jesus rose from the dead, the Lord’s Day.
Sputnik: But 'they' were WRONG using that term, were they not? See above. I personally am not much interested in following the ways of those who are ignorant to the Word of God. And, as for the old favorite of 'Sunday-supporters' - "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day (Revelation 1:10) - being used as confirmation that Sunday had now replaced the Sabbath ...that is a complete fabrication. I personally don't believe that that text is referring to either Sunday OR the Sabbath. In any event, 'Sunday' as being 'the Lord's Day' would be that text's LEAST likeliest meaning. Please read Isaiah 58:13 again to see which day is the Lord's Day.
servant: They said the reason they worshipped on the first day, was because it was a weekly memorial of the day Jesus rose from the dead!
Sputnik: Did the Bible ask 'them' to do that!? Or us? If it's PEOPLE who are dictating these rituals and traditions to us, then we need to recognize that for what it is. Based on this form of logic, then I TOO can choose to keep Wednesday, for example, as 'the Sabbath' because Jesus fed the hungry multitude on that day. I have no idea on which day that occurred, by the way. What you are doing here, servant, is using a rather typical ploy. You're using men's tradition to justify your argument and you can't reasonably do that.
By the way, although we were not asked to do this either, we DO honor Christ's death and resurrection every Easter. Sunday is not, never was, and never will be a 'substitite Sabbath' whether Jesus rose on that day or not!
servant: They outright state that no one prior to Moses (Adam, Noah, Abraham etc) ever kept the Sabbath because it was Moses who first gave the Sabbath law and the ten commandments to man!
Sputnik: The 'they' you keep referring to are those who have substituted Sunday for the Sabbath. In order to justify this, 'they' are obviously going to use whatever methods they can to do so. Grasping at straws is understandable, I guess, when the very Book you profess to uphold doesn't offer you any support.
I have no issue, by the way, with worshipping God in church on ANY day. My issue is with those who have turned their back on the Sabbath because they say that it was nailed to the cross, that it was 'abolished'. I take exception to those who refer to 'Sabbath-keepers' as being legalistic or that they are members of a cult.
And THEN comes the REALLY silly and hypocritical part. These very same people remain obedient to a day of the week ANYWAY (???) and they become SO militant whenever that day is questioned. Their loyalty to Sunday (many of whom consider that day to be God's Sabbath) seems to know no bounds. If one is obedient to the 7th-day Sabbath, then one is considered to be part of a cult. If one is obedient to Sunday (and MOST of mainstream Christianity IS obedient to Sunday) then one is considered to be a 'healthy' Bible-believing Christian. The mind boggles!
servant: Are you not aware that you yourself, in your present belief system practice what is forbidden and abolished, and forbid what is allowed.
Sputnik: FORBIDDEN as well as abolished? You might have to clarify yourself on that one, servant. And, I DON'T forbid the worshipping of God on ANY day. That REALLY is not the issue here.
servant: You ask me, what are the commandments of Christ we are to keep? They are His teachings, while He was hear on Earth, primarily found in the Gospels but throughout the New Testiment, you find them....
Sputnik: And, one of Jesus' customs was to be obedient to the 7th-day Sabbath. The greatest commandment Jesus gave to mankind was to love God with all our hearts. Wouldn't obedience to the Sabbath (made for man by God) be one way of fulfilling that command?
servant: and one commandment He never taught us Christians to keep, is the Sabbath, the reason is He destroyed that temporary rest...and now gives us full spiritual rest, not one day, but 7 days....don't you want it? Don't you want to come to Jesus?