The Scripture doesn't declare any of these days to set a precedent for a weekly festival. The only weekly festival declared in Scripture is the seventh-day Sabbath (Saturday) commanded by God's voice and His writing on the tables of stone known as the ten commandments.
What does it matter? What if 99.9999999999999999% of all people decided to jump off a cliff. Would you do it?
There's that word again. Everything that doesn't dovetail with Catholic dogma is considered a "theory." I love the "gates of hell" reference. Nice, dramatic, irrelevant touch. True Protestants couldn't care in the slightest what the majority of Christians do. The majority of people in the world aren't even Christians at all. Do you believe their beliefs should have any bearing on yours?
True Protestants (it's important to distinguish "true" from "in name only") don't revere the Reformers the way Catholics do the church fathers and the saints. You shouldn't try to suggest similarities. It's not very honest.
Did we hurt your feelings by warning (not the same as judging) you?
We do. Why don't you?
No. See above.
Who are these men that Sabbatarians follow? Do you mean Christ Himself, maybe?
So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. (Luke 4:16)
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. (1 John 2:6)
Good Morning B5!
Thank you for your articulate response. Some of these things we have gone back and forth on several times so I won't beat a dead horse. Here are
my final closing points:
I agree with you that Scripture never comes right out and says
"I, God, under the New Covenant with my people Command That All Christians will now worship on Sunday, the Lords Day, and that Saturday will remain for the Jews under the Old Covenant". Sooooo what do we have:
We have
in Scripture is Paul telling Christians that Jesus
“canceled the bond which stood against us with its legal demands . . . Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of.....a Sabbath.
You and your ilk
are still being held in bondage to the Old Covenant.
We have
In Scripture Jesus only mentions keeping 9 of the 10 Commandments.....
He left out "Keep holy the Sabbath". You and your ilk, starting about 500 years ago, brought it back up.....
Jesus NEVER did!!! He made it clear that we must adhere to the 9
moral principles contained in the Old Testament law and that they are still binding on us. Keeping holy the Sabbath is a ritual law and rituals can be changed or cancelled. Which takes us back to what Paul said in Colossians 2 about no one judging (what you call "warning") by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. I will listen to the teacher Paul. You can listen to your
16th Century teachers.
We have
Scripture that makes it clear that 1st Century Christians gathered on the first day of the week...
Sunday...and considered it the Lords Day. You don't!
We have 1st Century
historical writings that match up with Scripture and make it clear that they worshiped on Sunday.
We have a person who was
a student of the Apostle John and a Bishop for the Church in Antioch wrote that they
'no longer observed the Sabbath'! I trust the writings that man over the writings of your 16th century men.
I straight up asked you why do you trust your men (and not Ignatius).
Your flippant response (2 questions back to me) was a dodge on your part because
you have no logical defense for following the teachings of men that are 500 years old.
Scripture, Christian History and a
1st Century Bishop who was a student of an Apostle
are against you.....I shouldn't say YOU....I should say the people who falsely taught you.
I find it bizarre that you would equate Luke 4:16 with 1 John2:6. They have NOTHING to do with each other!
Mary