Are doctors and pharmaceutical workers exempted during Sabbath?
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Where can I bang my head against a brick wall.
Christians do not have to keep the Sabbath Day at all. If you've read the Bible there are many verses that entail this. JESUS even spoke of it about not giving water to an Ox because it is Sabbath Day! David ate corn on Sabbath Day!
Me thinks the 'OP' is Catholic, squashed heavily under the law.
Christians do not have to keep the Sabbath Day at all. If you've read the Bible there are many verses that entail this. JESUS even spoke of it about not giving water to an Ox because it is Sabbath Day! David ate corn on Sabbath Day!
Me thinks the 'OP' is Catholic, squashed heavily under the law.
J
You guys better go first. I would break down the wall, with what's left of my skull...
Galatians 4:9-11 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Romans 14:5-6 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days.
Colossians 2:6-8 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Galatians 2:4-5 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: to whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Galatians 4:9-11 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Romans 14:5-6 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days.
Colossians 2:6-8 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Galatians 2:4-5 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: to whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
Well a few bits of information must be understood before this question can be properly answered.
1st, did you know that the Greek word for "sorcery" - in the bible - is "pharmakeia" (and this is New Testament writings). It's where we get our word pharmaceuticals. Christ didn't heal with "sorcery" (i.e. drugs) but with faith in the power of God.
2nd, Priests are allowed to work on the Sabbath, and more than "allowed", Priests are *expected* to work serving God's people on the Sabbath (just like today's church shepherds work to serve their congregations on Sunday).
3rd, those who believe in Christ are of the order of Melchizedek. In other words, believers of Christ *are now* priests of God, commanded to REMEMBER the Sabbath, which means either resting on the day or doing good to others. In other words the focus must be on God and his kingdom and not on self.
So if we consider all of this information, we can answer your questions...
1. Are doctors allowed to work on Sabbath?
Assuming they're believers in Christ; If their focus is on maintaining their income, job or career; no, they're in the wrong. If their focus is to spread the kingdom of God (i.e. restorations...healing); yes, especially if they worked for free as an offering to God on that day.
since medicine are used for healing...
2. Are pharmaceutical workers doing good if they work to produce medicinal drugs on Sabbath?
No. The production of drugs is considered sorcery. Also the production of pharmaceuticals is specifically "for profit" and not for the healing of people (giving drugs away freely isn't good for business...nor is truly healing people good for business).
Have you ever noticed that there's a serpent coiling a staff as the symbol of this world's version of healing, who's "medicine" doesn't really heal? Now that imagery comes from what God commanded Moses to make for the people in Numbers 21, but today's "medicines" are another lie from that old Serpent.
At best these drugs mitigate symptoms and don't cure any illness or disease (because you have to keep taking them or the illness or disease returns). At worse, these drugs are made to specifically *kill* something in the body (which is why if these drugs are taken other than how they were specifically directed they can cause death).
ALL of them cause other negative "side-effects" (i.e. "diseases") that must then be controlled by more drugs, and it just spirals into more and more bondage...completely contrary of God's Kingdom, the gospel of freedom. Something that truly "heals" doesn't kill or have an overdose limit where you've taken too much.
1st, did you know that the Greek word for "sorcery" - in the bible - is "pharmakeia" (and this is New Testament writings). It's where we get our word pharmaceuticals. Christ didn't heal with "sorcery" (i.e. drugs) but with faith in the power of God.
2nd, Priests are allowed to work on the Sabbath, and more than "allowed", Priests are *expected* to work serving God's people on the Sabbath (just like today's church shepherds work to serve their congregations on Sunday).
3rd, those who believe in Christ are of the order of Melchizedek. In other words, believers of Christ *are now* priests of God, commanded to REMEMBER the Sabbath, which means either resting on the day or doing good to others. In other words the focus must be on God and his kingdom and not on self.
So if we consider all of this information, we can answer your questions...
1. Are doctors allowed to work on Sabbath?
Assuming they're believers in Christ; If their focus is on maintaining their income, job or career; no, they're in the wrong. If their focus is to spread the kingdom of God (i.e. restorations...healing); yes, especially if they worked for free as an offering to God on that day.
since medicine are used for healing...
2. Are pharmaceutical workers doing good if they work to produce medicinal drugs on Sabbath?
No. The production of drugs is considered sorcery. Also the production of pharmaceuticals is specifically "for profit" and not for the healing of people (giving drugs away freely isn't good for business...nor is truly healing people good for business).
Have you ever noticed that there's a serpent coiling a staff as the symbol of this world's version of healing, who's "medicine" doesn't really heal? Now that imagery comes from what God commanded Moses to make for the people in Numbers 21, but today's "medicines" are another lie from that old Serpent.
At best these drugs mitigate symptoms and don't cure any illness or disease (because you have to keep taking them or the illness or disease returns). At worse, these drugs are made to specifically *kill* something in the body (which is why if these drugs are taken other than how they were specifically directed they can cause death).
ALL of them cause other negative "side-effects" (i.e. "diseases") that must then be controlled by more drugs, and it just spirals into more and more bondage...completely contrary of God's Kingdom, the gospel of freedom. Something that truly "heals" doesn't kill or have an overdose limit where you've taken too much.
T
Luke 3:15 The Ox and water.
The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
Luke 14:5
And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Matthew 12:1-4 David eating on Sabbath Day. And JESUS also doing what He does best. Fulfilling the Law.
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?
The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
Luke 14:5
And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Matthew 12:1-4 David eating on Sabbath Day. And JESUS also doing what He does best. Fulfilling the Law.
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn and to eat.But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?