If you relied on works then you would be as powerful as God, making what you do able to handle eternal life. Love it, knowing of grace.
Jesus = Sabbath.
Scripture says it is special---so that would mean different. Christ said that it wasn't to be treated as a day to forget other things of scripture. Christ showed how not healing someone needing that kindness wouldn't be honoring the Sabbath. Also, obedience only by the letter so it would be OK to be hungry to obey not working. The suggestion is to rest from our labors on that day (not to be confused with resting in Christ for forgiveness). Some people do special scripture study as their rest, some spend it with family, some devote time to church that day. Strict orders on exactly how each person was to rest could get into a sticky mess of legalism. One long thread said doctors and druggist could refuse to help sick people that day based on this, but Christ showed that wasn't the way to honor Sabbath.
Where is it that the definition of Sabbath is Jesus? I thought the definition of that word was a certain day of the week. We communicate with words, it insert the word Sabbath in a bible translation instead of Jesus wouldn't help us understand scripture. Forgiveness of sin through Sabbath? Won't work.
How legalistic do you want to get? Christ picked some grain on the Sabbath and legalist said he worked.
Do you think that we are being told, through these truths, not to honor the seventh day or have any festival honoring the Lord, as we live in today. There would go Christmas and Easter!
This is where I get confused with your interpretation.
Christians are free to observe feasts and festivals.
Not unless all action is legalism. When I use that word I am thinking of making a rule for every man to act in a certain way regardless of the man, the times he lives in, the circumstances. Scripture says to rest on the Sabbath, and scripture would not use legalism in their instructions. The Pharisees used rules on how to rest on that day, and Christ scolded them for their legalism. So there is a difference. Evidently, when we are instructed to rest from our labors on one day a week, and when Christ explained what wasn't included and scolded the Pharisees for legalism, we are supposed to be able to work out a plan for this ourselves. It couldn't be a one plan fits all situations and all men. It would have to be an individual plan from the heart. It would have to fit within how we are instructed about it to be the best for us.
I do send you such love! To discuss purely scripture has been absolutely wonderful for me, So often it gets into blaming so it is ruined, you kept to what scripture means. We could love the Lord together in separate ways, it was wonderful.Ok really I need to quit this back and forth. I haven't done this much back and forth concerning doctrine for a while.
I'm like a person on a diet going to an all you can eat buffet. I had better leave before I gain it all back.
Again thanks for the back and forth, I need to let you have the last word. If I don't my fear is I'll do binge online debating and not come up for air for months.
ciao til another time..
Most people read these two chapters without understanding them at all. They don't know a thing about what it was like when there was no radio or TV to tell about Christ, and He was new to the world. Even the Jews who knew about Him and accepted Him also knew about how they were raised to be Jewish. Gentiles lived a very different kind of life and felt those Jews had very strange ways of doing things, altho their God was wonderful. Some decided it was worth taking on the strange ways to be part of the Jew God. Christ and His ways made it even better. Jews wee told to make the gentiles toe the line if they wanted to join. That is the world Paul was speaking to. Arguments about what to do about the gentiles is mostly what the book of Acts is about. Paul said he was a Torah keeping Jew, but joining the Hebrew God wasn't about becoming Jewish.
I left this site 7 hours ago. This was posted 5 hours ago. Stilly must have taken a picture for whatever reason.
