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Why does a non-Christian, such as your profile says that you are, care anything about what Christ said?
Are you one of those who claims that the rest of Christianity is following a pagan religion, and you are the true follower of God? That's what I suspect.
I was part of an Armstrongite group who suffered from that delusion.
You need to read Colossians 2:16-17 which says that the Sabbath was a shadow of Christ. Christ is our true spiritual rest (Matt 11:28-30). Place your faith in Him and enter into your spiritual rest (Heb 4:9-10).
Additionally, view the following Scriptures, which say that the Old Covenant is no longer in effect: II Cor 3, Acts 15, Hebrews 8 and 9, Galatians 3 and 4, Ephesians 2:13-15, and Romans 7:1-7.
Ask yourself the question..if the Sabbath still applies, why was Sabbath-breaking never mentioned on any of the sin lists of the Gentiles? Why did Paul never provide any instruction to the Gentiles in regards to keeping the Sabbath? The same observation applies about clean/unclean meat laws.
Notice that all of the references to the Sabbath, after the resurrection, involved meetings in synagogues, and not church meetings. They involved Paul going to synagogues to reach unconverted people, who were congregated there....obviously an evangelism effort.
Notice that there are more than once reference to church meetings on Sunday, and that Christ appeared on Sundays each time after the resurrection when the days were mentioned..never on Sabbath.
Jewish Christians continued to observe some elements of Judaism, even circumcision (Acts 21), but there's no evidence that Gentile Christians did. In fact, Galatians was addressing a group of heretics who were claiming that the Old Covenant still applied to Gentile Christians.
Christians probably did frequent the synagogue to hear Scriptures read, as the scrolls were stored there, but they also had private meetings on Sunday in order to observe communion and to talk about the Scriptures from a Christian perspective. After the Jews started persecuting Christians following the destruction of the Temple (due to their fleeing from Jerusalem), they migrated away from their synagogue meetings and just continued to meet on Sunday.
As an Armstrongite, I believed their distorted views on church history including the claim that the Roman Catholic church and/or the Roman government changed the Sabbath, but it's a bunch of nonsense. I've written about that on other threads. They distort history to suit their purpose, and a lot of their rhetoric comes from Alexander Hislop.
If anyone is troubled by this, I'd read Sabbath in Christ by Dale Ratzlaff. Dale is an ex Seventh Day Adventist pastor and teacher.
So, rstrats..why are you interested in what Christ said if you are a non-Christian? Are you one of those who thinks you represent the true faith, and the rest of Christianity is in error?
Are you one of those who claims that the rest of Christianity is following a pagan religion, and you are the true follower of God? That's what I suspect.
I was part of an Armstrongite group who suffered from that delusion.
You need to read Colossians 2:16-17 which says that the Sabbath was a shadow of Christ. Christ is our true spiritual rest (Matt 11:28-30). Place your faith in Him and enter into your spiritual rest (Heb 4:9-10).
Additionally, view the following Scriptures, which say that the Old Covenant is no longer in effect: II Cor 3, Acts 15, Hebrews 8 and 9, Galatians 3 and 4, Ephesians 2:13-15, and Romans 7:1-7.
Ask yourself the question..if the Sabbath still applies, why was Sabbath-breaking never mentioned on any of the sin lists of the Gentiles? Why did Paul never provide any instruction to the Gentiles in regards to keeping the Sabbath? The same observation applies about clean/unclean meat laws.
Notice that all of the references to the Sabbath, after the resurrection, involved meetings in synagogues, and not church meetings. They involved Paul going to synagogues to reach unconverted people, who were congregated there....obviously an evangelism effort.
Notice that there are more than once reference to church meetings on Sunday, and that Christ appeared on Sundays each time after the resurrection when the days were mentioned..never on Sabbath.
Jewish Christians continued to observe some elements of Judaism, even circumcision (Acts 21), but there's no evidence that Gentile Christians did. In fact, Galatians was addressing a group of heretics who were claiming that the Old Covenant still applied to Gentile Christians.
Christians probably did frequent the synagogue to hear Scriptures read, as the scrolls were stored there, but they also had private meetings on Sunday in order to observe communion and to talk about the Scriptures from a Christian perspective. After the Jews started persecuting Christians following the destruction of the Temple (due to their fleeing from Jerusalem), they migrated away from their synagogue meetings and just continued to meet on Sunday.
As an Armstrongite, I believed their distorted views on church history including the claim that the Roman Catholic church and/or the Roman government changed the Sabbath, but it's a bunch of nonsense. I've written about that on other threads. They distort history to suit their purpose, and a lot of their rhetoric comes from Alexander Hislop.
If anyone is troubled by this, I'd read Sabbath in Christ by Dale Ratzlaff. Dale is an ex Seventh Day Adventist pastor and teacher.
So, rstrats..why are you interested in what Christ said if you are a non-Christian? Are you one of those who thinks you represent the true faith, and the rest of Christianity is in error?
