I must confess, I have never really understood all the fuss over which particular day of the week the Sabbath is. And it seems to me, people who place a great deal of emphasis on this subject, really miss the emphasis of the Lord of the Sabbath (and the primary emphasis' of Scripture as a whole), and obviously have never had to try and get a job in the town I live in. I see these discussions as about as fruitful as arguing over genealogies, or the actual date of the birth and resurrection of Christ. Oh this group or that group is correct about the Sabbath, they must be correct about everything else, if only we can convince others about this one point, then perhaps....not.
Why all the fuss over same sex marriage and homosexual pastors and their partners? They love each other and isn't love the bottom line? Isn't love the whole purpose of the Law?
Delusion = The seventh day Sabbath is a Jewish holiday.Originally Posted by Apologetic_Warrior
I must confess, I have never really understood all the fuss over which particular day of the week the Sabbath is. And it seems to me, people who place a great deal of emphasis on this subject, really miss the emphasis of the Lord of the Sabbath (and the primary emphasis' of Scripture as a whole), and obviously have never had to try and get a job in the town I live in. I see these discussions as about as fruitful as arguing over genealogies, or the actual date of the birth and resurrection of Christ. Oh this group or that group is correct about the Sabbath, they must be correct about everything else, if only we can convince others about this one point, then perhaps....not.
Who here is fussing over it?Why all the fuss over same sex marriage and homosexual pastors and their partners?
They love each other and isn't love the bottom line?
Isn't love the whole purpose of the Law?
That a whole different issue. Humanism is not the bottom line.
Love the LORD with all your heart, mind, and soul, is the bottom line, and we both should know what the law has to say on the issue you brought up. Breaking commandments goes against the "bottom line". So there you have it.
the problem is Jesus worked on the sabbth. Not only that but Jesus did not repeat the sabbth in his repeated of the ten commands
Not onlythat but gentiles where not under the law and circumcision was in the heart.
Matthew 5:17-19; Too Slender of a Reed to Support Seventh-Day Sabbatarianism
Interesting. Keeping the sabbath is a commandment. And since loving the Lord i sthe bottom line, and breaking the sabbath goes against the bottom line, as you so accurately put it, it should be easy to see what the "big deal" is when it comes to the Sabbath and what day it is.
So there you have it.
What does keeping the sabbath have to do with loving your neighbor?So did the Priests, and yet Christ said they didn't sin. And why would Christ need to be recorded repeating anything for us to consider it to be valid?
The commandment to Love God is spelled out in the first four. The commandment to love your neighbor is spelled out in the last six. So yes, Christ did repeat the 4th.
Please explain verse 6.Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying, The Lord hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the Lord, to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people
Unfortunately that isn't what the verse says.Mark 2:27
Then Jesus said to them, "The Sabbath was made to meet the needs of people, and not people to meet the requirements of the Sabbath.
Delusion = The seventh day Sabbath is a Jewish holiday.
Who here is fussing over it?
And what does that have to do with the Jewish Sabbath?
Homosexuality in Judaism and Jewish Thought - My Jewish Learning
Two verses in Leviticus (18:23 and 20:13) express unequivocal condemnation of male homosexual sex (although it is not clear whether what is referred to is intercourse or all sexual acts between men).
According to Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."
Nonetheless, the traditional Jewish position on homosexuality is still difficult for many liberal-minded Jews, and the liberal denominations have debated the extent to which gays and lesbians can be fully integrated into religious communities.
The first and least controversial step taken by the Conservative, Reconstructionist, and Reform movements was to endorse civil equality for gays and lesbians. The CCAR, the Reform movement's rabbinical council, took an early and active role in fighting for gay rights. In 1977 it drafted a call to decriminalize homosexual sex and to end all discrimination based on sexual orientation.