Please take the time and respect to read this to the end before you answer my questions. Many thanks.
Why do many Christians ignore the fact that the 4th commandment (Sabbath day) was still being kept by the early Christians by keeping the 7th day holy? The catholic church admit to changing it to Sunday but it was changed on no scriptual authority. Now please put on your thinking cap and answer this next question:
If the early Christians were not keeping the 7th day Sabbath, then how could the catholic church change the day of worship from Saturday to Sunday if nobody was keeping the Sabbath? If the catholic church admits to changing it to Sunday, then obviously the 7th day Sabbath must have existed to be changed in the first place.
Now crazy as this sounds, some Christians believe that the 10 commandments were nailed to the cross and done away with. They claim it was the old law etc and think that Jesus died to give us a license to break the 10 commandments. Of course most Christians will only attack God’s law as soon as you mention the Sabbath because they would rather follow the traditions of men and the church rather than follow the Bible.
Colossians 2:16 gets ripped out of context so I would like to explain it incase it comes up again. Colossians 2:16 is referring to the yearly sabbaths written on paper by Moses. It is not referring to the Sabbath of the 10 commandments written by God in stone. All of this ceremony and ritual foreshadowed the cross and ended at Christ’s death. Moses’ law was added till the “Seed should come,” and that “Seed…is Christ” (Galatians 3:19,16). God’s law could not be involved here, for Paul spoke of it as holy, just, and good many years after the cross:
Romans 7:12–Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.
Romans 2:13–(for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified;
There are so many Scriptures that support keeping God’s law. Not Moses’ law, God’s law. But I guess many Christians don’t seem to believe the Bible. Could it be that there are certain commands that they do not want to obey, so they have to twist the Scriptures to attack God’s law? I can quote Scripture after Scripture that supports keeping God’s law but nearly every time it will get completely ignored.
Now lets just pretend that the fourth commandment got deleted because the 10 commandments were part of the old law. If I was claiming to be a Christian and I kept telling people at my church that I keep 9 of the 10 commandments, but every week I break into someone’s house and steal their property, would it be ok for me to say, “I will still get to heaven because we are under grace, we don’t need to keep God’s commandments”
Basically what Christians think is that Jesus came to do away with God’s 10 commandments, just to command us to keep 9 of them, but do away with one of them–the only commandment that begins with the word remember.
You see when I first found out the truth about the Sabbath, I didn’t want to believe it. But I did not ignore it and twist the Scriptures. I went over and over it and saw that the evidence was so great. I gave up my job and joined a church that believes we are saved by faith in Jesus, but also believes in keeping all of God’s commandments. Sadly, I have found that Christians who believe in keeping God’s commandments get scoffed at by other Christians. I really do not know how someone can claim to be a Christian but yet scoff at other Christians who obey God’s law (10 commandments ).
The question is, if Christians really believed I was in errror, then why do some Christians give me insults? If another Christian was in error I should talk to him in a loving way, not scoff at him. Same with atheists. If they believe they are right and us Christains are wrong, why do they get so angry? Could it be that deep down they know they are the ones in the wrong and the truth hurts? If I am the one who is in error, then I don’t know how on earth other Christians can get angry with me and make insults if they really think they are right.
But when I give the evidence to other Christians they seem to just want to sweep it under the carpet and turn a blind eye to the evidence. If you go on google and type in something like ” The Sabbath Commandment”you will find so many websites that will explain that the 10 commandments were not done away with and that the Sabbath was not changed to Sunday. How can someone claim to be a true Christian but yet turn a blind eye to the truth?
I think any honest Christian will agree that if the catholic church had not changed the Sabbath day, Christians would still be keeping it today. Like I have said before, people just seem to want to follow the tradition’s of men rather than follow the Bible.
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A Question For Christians?
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Sorry to answer your question with a question, but if God’s law is still active you must obey everything in Leviticus. No cutting your beard, no wearing polycotton fibers, women must remain away while on their period, no shellfish, no pork,. You will be leaving like the strictest of orthodox Jews. So what parts of the law can you realistically follow?
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Hi, I’m sorry you’re getting angry responses. Some of them could have worded their answers differently, but chose not to – I would like to encourage you to take this and find a shorter question that everyone can follow so that it can be answered better. I find this hard to pinpoint exactly what your question is.
You’ll get better (not nicer probably though) responses this way
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American businesses for many past generations used to be all closed on Sundays. Where do you think this law came from. I think it was America’s government respecting the Sabbath law of their God Yahweh. Christians in America have failed to realize that many of America’s judicial laws were modeled after the God Yahweh’s Mosaic Laws by our Freemason forefathers and not from the Catholic church.
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1.Constantine changed the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday and it spread across the Roman Empire. Except the Jews maintained Saturday as the Sabbath. And actually there are many language in the world where the word for saturday is Sabbath.
2. Christians do in fact read the Bible. But a pope ( Pope John 2 ?) stated that the word of the papacy is higher then the the word of the Bible. Something that non-catholics clearly disagree with.
I wish more christian churches held services on Saturday. Some use verses to support that the Sabbath is any day you choose but I do not subscribe to that and feel they are taking those verses out of context.
This is a rant.