I do not think its a hatred for the Seventh day... no one in their right mind would out-rightly deny that God said "On the seventh day He rested" or those who break but one of these laws are as good as dead, which includes the 7th day.
Oh yes they would deny it.
I think its more a case that those who so strongly feel that the disobedience they see in people who do not follow this law as they feel it should be followed, has the God give right to condemn those who go to church on a Sunday, or a Monday for that matter....
I do not condemn someone who chooses not to keep the fourth Commandment, I am not the judge. I do feel it is a duty to uphold the Ten Commandments. including the fourth one, and warn people what the penalty is for breaking the Commandments.
The only time that Paul mentions the Sabbath by name is in Col 2:16-17
He says, "Therefore, do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ."
The reason for this, Paul says, is because Christ is the reality that these rituals symbolized. Since Christ has canceled our debts (v. 14), we should therefore not let anyone criticize us for what we do on the Sabbath. Because of the cross, the regulations about the Sabbath (as well as the new moons and annual festivals) are obsolete.
Would you say that the regulations concerning murder or lying are also obsolete?
What purpose then does the law serve?It was added because of transgressions, till the Seed should come to whom the promise was made;and it wasappointed through angels by the hand of a mediator. 20 Now a mediator does not mediate for one only,but God is one.
21 Is the law then against the promises of God? Certainly not! For if there had been a law given which could have given life, truly righteousness would have been by the law. 22But the Scripture has confined all under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the law, kept for the faith which would afterward be revealed. 24 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
That schoolmaster that teaches about Christ and His sacrifice is the Law of sacrifices...
Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those
sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.
Heb 10:3 But in those
sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.
Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the
blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith,
Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In
burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said,
Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.
He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
What was the first taken away to establish the second? Just read the next verses...
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
Heb 10:12 But this man,
after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Heb 10:13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Heb 10:14 For by
one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Christ/The Seed came and fulfilled the law, He is our Sabbath.
No, the Sabbath is not the shadow of Christ, it is a memorial to creation and a shadow of the coming Millennium.
I think if those who feel so strongly about the Sabbath that they feel it their right to convince others to a point of animosity, which this argument always turns out to be... I would stand by and ask if you can truly say that you follow all 10 commandments, or the remainder of the Law of Christ/Moses.
1. Thou shalt have no gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make any graven images /idols in the likeness of anything that is in heaven etc.
3. Thou shalt not take the Lords name in vain
4. Remember the Sabbath, keep it holy.
5. Honor thy father and thy mother
6. Thou shalt not kill
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery
8. Thou shalt not steal
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against they neighbour
10. Thou shalt not covet they neighbor's house or wife or anything in it.
"He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone"
I will publicly say that I am a sinner. I sin daily. So, let me ask, does that negate the Law that defines sin?
Rom 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
1Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Our choice is not to define sin, our first parents tried that...
Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Gen 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
Gen 3:3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Gen 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Gen 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
They tried to determine right and wrong for themselves. How'd that work out for them and everyone that descended from them including us?
Our choice is not determining right from wrong, our choice is whether we will obey...
Rom 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
