I think the level you're now plummeting to is tragic. The false witness you're resorting to now is not only transparent but evident through the written record of my posts that prove your lack of truth and as such credibility. As to the "own savior" slur, false witness coupled with blasphemy is the weapon of cowards.
I've noticed people who don't study the scriptures but hunt for excerpts from sources so as to refute those who do, and fail in the effort when the debate extends unto what they're not able to Google, turn vicious and as such the facade having fallen away the lack of grace appears outstanding.
God save you.
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Was the Sabbath abolished or done away with?
Was the Sabbath changed to Sunday?
Is the Sabbath any day we choose?
Is Jesus our Sabbath now?
Is the Sabbath only for the Jews?
It's time to UNLEARN the lies.
UNLEARN
Hey, welcome to UNLEARN.
My name is Lex, and I'd like to invite you to join us each week as we UNLEARN the lies
and dig deeper into the truth of God's Word.
Now, let's get started.
We see in Genesis that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh, and
when the 10 Commandments were given on Mount Sinai, God said,
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD
your God.
On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or
female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns.
For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in
them, but he rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.”
- Exodus 20:9-11
God said, “remember the Sabbath” and then He reminded us of Creation saying that He
created the heavens and earth in six days and rested on the seventh.
I think it’s very interesting that God explained the Sabbath in this way by linking the Sabbath
to creation.
What this tells me is that when we remember the Sabbath and keep it holy, we are identifying
with the God of creation.
I heard someone once say, “don’t tell me which God you serve, show me by which commandments
you keep.”
For example, the Babylonians celebrated their holy days on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and 28th
days of the month based on the new moon.
This Lunar Sabbath system is different from the Biblical Sabbath, because it doesn’t
follow a continuous seven day cycle.
Each lunar month would have 29 or 30 days, which allowed for three seven-day weeks, and
a final week of nine or ten days, which breaks the continuous seven-day cycle.
Likewise, Buddhism follows a similar cycle that’s based on the new moon, but is slightly
different.
They celebrate on the new moon, full moon, and the two quarter moons in between.
Muslims also have a weekly set-apart day, and they gather together on Friday for congregational
prayers.
I find it interesting that God said “remember the Sabbath”, but out of the Ten Commandments
that’s the one most Christians have forgotten about.
They say things like, “the Sabbath was abolished”, or “it was changed to Sunday”, or “we
can keep any day we want as long as we keep a Sabbath”, and some say “Jesus is our
Sabbath now”, or “the Sabbath is only for the Jews.”
I want to look at these common objections that people give concerning the Sabbath and
see if they line up with the Bible.
1.
Was the Sabbath abolished or done away with?
Listen to what Yeshua said about thinking that He came to abolish the Law.
"Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets.
I did not come to abolish but to make full.
For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will
by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.
Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so,
shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall
be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
- Matthew 5:17-19
Our Messiah told us not to even think that He came to abolish the Law, then He went on
to explain that if we break even the least important commandment in the Law and teach
others to do the same, we will be considered the least in the kingdom of God.
I would argue that the Sabbath is not the least important commandment.
In fact, it’s one of the most important commandments concerning our worship of God,
and breaking the Sabbath was punishable by death.
“You shall keep the Sabbath, therefore, for it is holy to you.
Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it,
that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord.
Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.”
- Exodus 31:14-15
Yeshua said not to even think that He came to abolish the Law, not even the least important
commandment.
If we want to obey our Messiah, then we can’t even think that the Sabbath was abolished.
2.
Was the Sabbath changed to Sunday?
There is not even a single verse in the entire Bible that tells us the Sabbath was changed
from the seventh day of the week to the first day of the week.
However, some Christians cite Acts 20 verse 7 when Paul spoke to the disciples on the
first day of the week.
“Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread,
Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.“
- Acts 20:7
Notice this says nothing about changing the Sabbath to Sunday, and also notice that it’s
not commanded that we have gatherings on the first day of the week.
To conclude that they had replaced the Sabbath with Sunday based on this verse is a very
weak argument, because the disciples gathered together regularly to break bread.
In fact, the Bible tells us they met daily to break bread.
“So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house
to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart”
- Acts 2:26
So, if the disciples met daily to break bread, that means this meeting on the first day of
the week was just their regular daily fellowship time and has nothing to do with the Sabbath.
If the Bible never mentions a change from Sabbath to Sunday, then who commanded this
change?
The Catholic Convert’s Catechism says,
“Which is the Sabbath day?
Saturday is the Sabbath day.
Why do we observe Sunday instead of Saturday?
We observe Sunday instead of Saturday because the Catholic Church, in the Council of Laodicea
(A.D. 336), transferred the solemnity from Saturday to Sunday.
By what authority did the Church substitute Sunday for Saturday?
The Church substituted Sunday for Saturday by the plenitude of that divine power which
Jesus Christ bestowed upon her.”
The Catholic Church says they changed the Sabbath to Sunday at the Council of Laodicea
in the fourth-century.
So, let’s take a look at what they said at that council.
Canon 29 of the Council of Laodicea says,
“Christians must not judaize by resting on the Sabbath, but must work on that day,
rather honouring the Lord's Day; and, if they can, resting then as Christians.
But if any shall be found to be judaizers, let them be anathema from Christ.”
- Council of Laodicea, canon 29
The Catholics cite this as the moment when the Sabbath was officially changed to Sunday.
So, you can say the Sabbath was changed to Sunday, but not under Biblical authority.
That change was instituted by the Catholic Church, not God.
This explains why Catholics keep Sunday, but why do Protestant Christians keep Sunday?
Ultimately it comes down to tradition.
The Catholic Church kept Sunday for so long that when the Protestant Reformers broke away
from the Catholic Church, they retained many of the deeply embedded traditions such as
Sunday worship.
3.Is the Sabbath any day we choose?