the Sabbath
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My reason for sharing my fallible faith with folks is hoping they will find what I have learned from infancy helpful for understanding ultimate truth and we will have fellowship. When I encounter someone who has a contradictory understanding, I want to learn which is the better belief, to admit when I am wrong, and then amend my website! (2TM 3:14-4:2, 1JN 1:3 :^)
Good one. Now tell me how you obey those commandments. The problem is not with the law, but with the people who are required to keep it. It's not even that the commandments are too hard. It is quite simply that there is nothing in the heart of man that wants to obey God. Only a new nature will suffice, as God said through Ezekiel.
Even God's elite, King David committed murder and adultery. He knew the law thoroughly, but that did not enable him to keep it.
Even God's elite, King David committed murder and adultery. He knew the law thoroughly, but that did not enable him to keep it.
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No. The sabbath day commandment was given at Horeb (Sinai) only to those who were there. Specifically not to Abraham nor any patriarch.
Deut 5: “The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.”
Deut 5: “The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, those who are here today, all of us who are alive.”
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Bread and cup points to His body and blood before His sacrificial death (symbolism). But the actual covenant comes to effect on the cross.
As in Hebrews 8:16,17.."in the case of a covenant or will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, because a covenant/will is in force only when somebody has died, it never takes effect while the one who made it is living"..
As in Hebrews 8:16,17.."in the case of a covenant or will, it is necessary to prove the death of the one who made it, because a covenant/will is in force only when somebody has died, it never takes effect while the one who made it is living"..
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Old and New Testament all are saved by faith. Faith is not new to the time after Christ.
The law that was added because of transgression is not the 10 commandments.
The principles of love that keep us from sin are always present..
No law = no sin
Added because of sin ....
There must of been laws defining sin before the first sin.
Gal 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
The 10 commandments were all in place before Sinai.
Read the morals of the people. Joseph knew that it was wrong to commit adultery. Cain was punished for murder.
They have always been wrong. Should I say they are acceptable to break today?
The law that was added because of transgression is not the 10 commandments.
The principles of love that keep us from sin are always present..
No law = no sin
Added because of sin ....
There must of been laws defining sin before the first sin.
Gal 3:17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
The 10 commandments were all in place before Sinai.
Read the morals of the people. Joseph knew that it was wrong to commit adultery. Cain was punished for murder.
They have always been wrong. Should I say they are acceptable to break today?
I go by what Jesus said. His death and resurrection were as certain as night follows day.
I am sanctified because of Christ. He is my wisdom and my sanctification. (1 Corinthians 1:30). I no longer shun sin because a set of rules condemn me if I sin. I have an inbuilt desire not to sin. That does not mean that I never sin. But no set of rules is of any use to me.
Israel had the Law and the covenant. It was of no value to them. But for the Christian, ".....Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes."
Unbelievers still have a conscience. Romans 2:
…14Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them.......
Again, the law is useful neither for salvation nor sanctification. If it could save, Jesus died for nothing.
If the unbeliever has knowledge of right and wrong, how much more the believer? More, we have the power to resist and sin. I could n not accurately quote the ten commandments. And in any case, they were given to Israel, not to the Gentiles. I am not a Jew.
What you call sanctification, the Bible calls the salvation of the soul. This is a big subject and I'll leave that for later, if you are interested.
I am sanctified because of Christ. He is my wisdom and my sanctification. (1 Corinthians 1:30). I no longer shun sin because a set of rules condemn me if I sin. I have an inbuilt desire not to sin. That does not mean that I never sin. But no set of rules is of any use to me.
Israel had the Law and the covenant. It was of no value to them. But for the Christian, ".....Christ is the end of the law, to bring righteousness to everyone who believes."
Unbelievers still have a conscience. Romans 2:
…14Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15So they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them.......
Again, the law is useful neither for salvation nor sanctification. If it could save, Jesus died for nothing.
If the unbeliever has knowledge of right and wrong, how much more the believer? More, we have the power to resist and sin. I could n not accurately quote the ten commandments. And in any case, they were given to Israel, not to the Gentiles. I am not a Jew.
What you call sanctification, the Bible calls the salvation of the soul. This is a big subject and I'll leave that for later, if you are interested.
The Sabbath was God's day of rest. He had created our reality and then he stopped to let our history play out. That is how He rested because God does not need to rest. We are living in God's 7th day (the Sabbath) and we should keep our every days holy by loving God, worshiping Him, thanking him, and obeying Him by loving all people as we love ourselves on a daily basis.