This is the first time I have read it on this site. If you say so, then so be it. From now on I will refer to this one post, after it is brought up that none ever did before. If someone else jumps on board, then I'll register them too.
Good, always refer to this post and remember that SDAs worship in Spirit and in Truth.
Those were false accusations against Jesus, that doing such things were judged as work by God. Work for pay is not healing for mercy. Work for pay by healing is not healing for mercy: Working on the Sabbath would cut off the soul from the people: tilling the soil, shearing the sheep, harvesting the field. Today that would include working the job and advancing the career, whether commercial, military, emergency services, gvt, etc...
Yes, the accusations of those who cried "Crucify Him!" are most assuredly unfounded.
If this is a way of saying that pay from working on your Sabbath is used in some special way, then the hypocrisy is confirmed. If your Sabbath were law of Christ, then you would be cut off by Christ from His body.
We should not be working on Sabbath but if, say, a wrecker truck driver is called out to help free a trapped accident victim, that money ought to be given as an offering, for Sabbath hours are holy hours.
No point of the law of Moses remained in power through the cross.
Agreed, the Mosaic Law of ceremonies, sacrifices, shadows of things to come has been nailed to the Cross. The Ten Commandments, however, "stand fast forever and ever" (Psalms 111:7-8 KJV).
The Lord also declared the old Covenant to have been eternal, and is now old and decayed.
The OC was conditional - on condition those to whom it was proferred
continued in it. By their refusal to do so, the OC came to an end.
The stones and book of the law of Moses included everything written therein, including statutes, judgments, carnal ordinances, commandments. And the commandments were written last on stone.
Long before Moses was born, God told us through Joseph adultery was "sin" - breaking the 7th commandment (12 John 3:4 KJV).
With the resurrection of Jesus Christ, He then gave His law, doctrine, and commandments to His apostles for the church. Whatever therefore you can quote from the apostles as doctrine and commandment, then do so. Otherwise, you preach your own doctrine and law, and is to be rejected.
The Ten Commandments are Jesus' commandments because the same God Who said in the OT:
"Give ear, O My people, to My law: incline your ears to the words of My mouth (the same law God spoke with His mouth at Sinai) I will open My mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: - Psalm 78:1-2 KJV
...is the same God Matthew says fulfilled that prophecy:
"All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world." - Matthew 13:34-35 KJV
I do not bid you God speed in your commandment to keep your Sabbath, since you cannot quote an apostle commanding it from the Lord.
The writer of Hebrews, who is most likely the Apostle Paul, says in Hebrews 4:9 Lamsa's Pishitta says, "It is therefore the duty of the people of God to keep the Sabbath". The word rest here is "Sabbatismos", or "Sabbath". Now you know the Sabbath is plainly commanded in the NT, just as are the other Ten Commandments enforced in the NT.
Everything written in the ark, including the tables of stone and the book of the Law was nailed to the cross. (2 Cor 3)(Col 2)
Sorry, but it's just plain asinine to deny that the Ten Commandments which were first written on stone are not what's now what's written on the heart, when that is the very definition of the NC - "I will put My Laws in their minds and
on their hearts will I write them".
Paul distinctly included Sabbath days as shadows, and not to judge others accordingly. Both your commandment and judgment based upon in direct opposition to Scripture: they are both false.
OK, this is an example of some of the most sloppy exegesis there is: claiming Colossians 2:16 KJV refers to the weekly Sabbath.
A blind man can see verse 16 is a list of
ceremonial laws of Moses: "meats (offerings), drinks (offerings), new moons (marking ceremonial observances), holy days (like Purim, Jubilee commencement, etc.).
In Leviticus 23, the yearly Feast Day shadows were called "sabbaths" which pointed to the Messiah Who was to come in the future, while in Genesis 2:1-2 KJV the weekly Sabbath is defined as a memorial to God's creation that had come to pass.
The only commandments of the Lord before the law of Moses, were circumcision to Abraham, and the Sabbath in the wilderness.
So, Cain didn't know not to murder, Rachel didn't know not to steal, Abraham didn't know not to lie, Joseph didn't know not to sleep with another man's wife, etc.???
Once these were included in the law of Moses, they were then done away with it at the cross.
What an astounding example of Biblical ignorance that is.
Scripture says the opposite of that:
"Wherefore serveth the law?
It was added because of transgression until the Seed should come..."
Paul wanted to know why people
served the Law of Moses which was added because of transgression to the already existing Ten Commandments, understand? It was the Law of Moses, not the Ten Commandments to which it was added, that began a Sinai and ended at the Cross, and is why it's no longer wrong to skip Passover, circumcision, meat and drink offerings, but if you commit adultery or kill or break the Sabbath, you become a transgressor of the law and will go to hell, understand?
The teaching that commandments are distinct from the law is a lying destruction of the wholeness of God's written law:
Bulldookey, there are several places in Scripture where God makes a distinction between the Mosaic Law and God's Law. For instance, the Ten Commandments are called "holy, just, and good" but the Mosaic Law of the Levitical priesthood is called a "carnal commandment". How the flip can the same law simultaneously be "carnal" and "holy, just, and good"???
James also says that not keeping the commandments is transgression of the law.
Correct, including the Sabbath commandment.
Jesus confirms the commandments, including the first great ones were in the law, are in the law, not separate from the law.
The Two Great are not "in" anything - they are a SUMMARY of the Ten Commandments because if you love God, you'll keep the first four, and if you love your neighbor, the last six. Explain how we can love God and our neighbor while breaking any of those Ten and I'll concede, but if you fail to do so, YOU CONCEDE.
Your doctrine is false, because you do not learn by Scripture only, but by men's false commandments.
I've explained where your doctrine only exists by twisting Scripture, and showed you how to read them in accordance with the Spirit of Truth of the Scripture. All that remains is for you to abandon the popular errors you've parroted and embrace truth.
Strive away. It's nothing to me. But so long as you preach your personal striving for law of Christ, by corrupting the Scriptures, then you're preaching false doctrine.
Jesus says those who do and preach His commandments are regarded by heaven above as "great", while those who fight against them are regarded as "the least", so can you see which of us is on the Lord's side and which of us is on the side of rebellion against the Lord?
At this time your religion is an outcast from both believing Christians, who read no commandment of apostles to keep a Sabbath, and from unbelieving Jews, who say your Sabbath in Christ's name is as cursed as He.
Seeing that Hebrews 4:9 says it's our "duty" to keep the Sabbath, it's clear who's doing God's will and who isn't. The good thing is that when a person is walking away from God, He allows U-turns ;)
BTW, if the Ten Commandments are no more, I'm sure you wouldn't object to me coming to your house and stealing all your stuff, seeing that it's OK with God now, right? I mean, how can you object to that which God now says is OK, right?