nothing here discounts or disproves what I have asked. Now tell me Joe, who changed the day to go to church from Saturday to Sunday? where is it at in the Bible? Google Constantine and his Sunday keeping law of March 7, AD 321. The google the council of Laodicea of AD 364.
Hi He_reigns.
I suppose I would answer your question with “Does it really matter?
Is there any mention of sabbath keeping before the law of Moses?
Yes God rested, but my understanding is that the Hebrew word for rest is “Shabbat” which means to cease or stop.
Therfore God ceased creating on the seventh day. Everything he had created was good and his work was finished.
He didn’t rest but merely stopped creating.
We know that Jesus was accused of breaking the Sabbath.
What did he do to break the sabbath (bearing in mind that if he truly did the he is a sinner)
He healed, and walked with people.
I can’t recall Jesus commanding people to keep the sabbath or praising people for doing so.
His beef was the rules that the Pharisees had set in place and to don’t do this and don’t do that.
Jesus said that stuff could be done on the sabbath
Luke 14:5-6
5 Then He answered them, saying, “Which of you, having a donkey or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?” 6 And they could not answer Him regarding these things.
John 5:8-10
8 Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.” 9 And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.
And that day was the Sabbath. 10 The Jews therefore said to him who was cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed.”
It seems to me that Jesus is saying “You tie up people with all the laws and rules, don’t do this and don’t do that”
Yes Jesus would have kept all the Jewish laws because he was born under the law.
Galatians 4:4-5
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Jesus did not rest on the sabbath day but he went about the business of the Father.
The ritual Law was to superseded by the moral law.
So to observe is not restricted to Dont do and make sure you do is replaced with Do things that are in line with the moral law.
So I think the question I would ask is “In the NT and the new covenant where is it commanded that we have to keep the sabbath as it prescribed by the Jesus and those under the New Covenant?
Hebrews 4:9-10
9 There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. 10 For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.
Just my simple thoughts