Sabbath in the polar regions
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Maybe God doesn't exist in the polar regions? You can see what a silly thought that is. We know God is spiritual, and our thoughts are not His thoughts. So God uses our perception of time for our benefit. Our perception is linked to the way the heavens operate. So I guess our perception of time is going to have to be influenced by the way God sees it for us.
God told of sunrise and sunset, and God was talking to people who lived in Israel when he told Hebrews that was how they were to look at it. God often used physical facts to illustrate the spiritual.
He told the Hebrews not to eat foods from animals who ate refuse, for instance. He told us that we, as gentiles could eat those foods. But the spiritual meaning didn't change, it was an illustration of being clean in thought word and deed. In the same way, it isn't going to work to use sunrise and sunset in Barrow. But that doesn't change the spiritual meaning or God's basic instructions.
God told of sunrise and sunset, and God was talking to people who lived in Israel when he told Hebrews that was how they were to look at it. God often used physical facts to illustrate the spiritual.
He told the Hebrews not to eat foods from animals who ate refuse, for instance. He told us that we, as gentiles could eat those foods. But the spiritual meaning didn't change, it was an illustration of being clean in thought word and deed. In the same way, it isn't going to work to use sunrise and sunset in Barrow. But that doesn't change the spiritual meaning or God's basic instructions.
I had no idea at all that my explaining that I think how the sunsets are in the polar regions do not affect Sabbath aces out your opinion that it does. We are equal under God, brothers and sisters in Christ. I most certainly do not want you to follow me. I listen to your way and check it with my Lord, and I expect you to do the same. I thought that was understood so we could freely disagree. Who is right or wrong in this doesn't matter, I don't think, in the least, but what God thinks matters. We are both of us searching for what God thinks. What I think is beside the point unless it is reasoning together for God's way. Your reasoning and my reasoning are equal.
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you define it in precisely the same way God Himself did. it is the seventh day of the week,just as He said. of the 10 commandments only one begins with this one word direction REMEMBER......the sabbath day.......the 7th day.....the day that identifies our God as the creator of all things and acts as a sign which identifies those who keep it as God's people. the very day that God Himself set as an appointment to meet with us. if you had regularly scheduled appointments set up by your doctor you would go. but our God has made regularly scheduled appointments with Him and you fail to attend.