So in summary after 54 pages and 1000 replies there is not a single scripture in all the bible that teaches that Gods Sabbath commandment of the 10 commandments has now been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a holy day of rest in honour of the resurrection of Jesus. Makes me think we have been taught lies at Sunday school and we are following man-made teachings and traditions that Jesus warns us about in Matthew 15:3-9. The question therefore we should be asking ourselves is, "If breaking anyone of Gods 10 commandments is sin, then are we following God and His Word or not following God and His Word?" Something to pray about.
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The question was purposely designed to fail.
There is no scriptures that claims an abolishment of the Sabbath…
Sabbath IS A GOOD THING whether anyone is Jewish, Christian, Muslim… or whatever.
‘Sabbath’ means the setting aside of a day in a seven-day week (typically, the twenty four hour period Friday night to Saturday night, for corporate worship).
In a single society, such as that of the Israelites and then the Jews, it was mandatory that the whole nation set aside one single specific day for this event. But as the world of single true deity (‘God’: YAHWEH) grew, the many peoples cannot all set aside the one single day. There is a great need for certain groups of people who, though believers, cannot set aside their work on a single specific day.
These would set aside another day on which to SABBATH.
Notice that Jesus Christ taught that, though there was a time when ‘the all’ would worship (which included ‘Sabbathing‘) on the great mountain as the Samaritans wrongly did, or in Jerusalem as the Jews did, THERE IS COMING A TIME WHEN NEITHER PHYSICAL PLACES ARE THE TRUE PLACE OF WORSHIP.
Where is the true place of worship? Where is the true place to Sabbath?
The true place to worship and Sabbath is IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH!!!
What does this mean?
It means that WHERE EVER YOU SABBATH, WHERE EVER YOU WORSHIP, God has deemed it acceptable by EACH INDIVIDUAL to do so as the situation finds them.
Do not judge Bible Hub your comfy Monday to Friday job, do not judge by your cosy fitting role that allows you to Sabbath on a Saturday… the global world is a round the clock twenty four hour seven day a week conglomerate. We are not all Sunday… Monday to Friday … workers nor societies.
Should a nurse stop their weekly work on Friday night - stop nursing?
Here’s a dilemma, then!! Seven days a week because it’s good to do nursing on a sabbath day… So, what if that nurse Sabbaths and worships God on a different day because the DAY OF REST given to them is, say, Wednesday?
Are they not worshipping in Spirit and Sabbathing…
not working seven days a week -
resting from
their WEEKLY work while WORSHIPPING GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH.
It’s not corporate, I hear you say…. God is not after CORPORATE WORSHIP… God is after INDIVIDUAL worship even if it is a collective in a congregational setting.
Is corporate prayer not a rote worship? Is it not like reciting the “Lord’s Prayer” - it’s done without thought and presence…. How many people know exactly WHAT they are saying and MEANING when they sing… when they read… when they speak … corporate prayers and songs?
But PERSONAL PRAYER…. It’s YOU with GOD… You… Petitioning, Pleading, Pledging, Confessing … in private TO GOD: ‘Do not do as they do …loudly, publicly, desiring for others to hear how ‘pious’ you are….!! But find a quiet place or do so at home in privacy!’
So, SABBATH is not abolished - no one ever really claims so - What is happening is that THERE IS NO ABSOLUTE that SABBATH needs to be FRIDAY NIGHT TO SATURDAY NIGHT
but ‘A day of rest in which we glorify God, do good, and REST from our normal work’ especially if that work was concerned with purely personal and or monetary gain.
Every one needs a Sabbath day irrespective of personal ethics…. No one should work seven days a week. Is that Sabbath day to rest, worship God, and do good!!