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That's fine by me. You seem to recognize that the duty to worship remains. I don't think the "location" of worship has to be a particular temple, church, building, etc.
I do not think that is expressly taught in Sacred Scripture, if that is the nature of your question. I hold it as a matter of faith (and reason) that the Church made that change, but I do not think it is possible to prove it from the Bible.
Faith according to scripture is upholding the law, not breaking it. Romans 3:31 Rev 14:12 so I will have to respectfully disagree.
Because we are the temple, we worship God whenever we do what is right, when we stop doing what is wrong, whenever we pray, read the Word, grow in wisdom, whenever we give thanks for what we have, whenever we forgive people their debts/wrongdoings against us...
"We uphold the law" in Romans 3:31 does not mean we obey its commands, it means we confirm its prophecy about faith (Romans 3:21) and its purpose - to show that people are sinful.
The law is a generic term and context tells us what its referring to. How does one profess faith, but not faith enough to do what He asks. Doesn't sound like saving faith to me. James 1:22 Rev 22:14 Faith is not passive, either is love to God 1 John 5:3
Not all commandments of God are from the Mosaic Law, for example "love your enemy" is the commandment of God outside the Mosaic Law.
Well, the obligation in the Catholic Church starts on Saturday before sunset, from what I understand (which is why we can fulfill our obligation by attending Mass on Saturday evening). Just to clarify. And obviously as a Catholic I believe that the Church has authority from God to do that. You disagree with that of course, which I respect.
In scripture the Sabbath starts in the evening from Friday evening to Sabbath evening, so mass on Sabbath evening is not in line with the biblical Sabbath, that has never been abrogated in scriptures, but changed just as predicted in God's holy Word Dan 7:25, not by God. Also, the Sabbath is more than just an hour or two in church, it is a whole day of worship no secular work for the full day Isa 58:13
Guess no one gave the Lord the memo that man ended His day of worship. Isa 66:22-23
Love your enemy is not a part of the law of Moses, Lev 19:18 is about neighbor, not enemy.
God bless you too. I agree with you that the obligation is more than just an hour or two in church actually. It is meant to be a whole day without work, if possible. That is the ideal, but I'm not sure if it was meant to be applied rigidly or legalistically if we look at the New Testament. I would also say that just because we see something occur in a particular way in the Bible, it doesn't necessarily make that an immutable law in every respect. I mean, we do not necessarily need to go to a lake or a natural body of water to be baptized, although that is how we see it done in Scripture. I would need to study it, but I would think that if we carefully studied the way that Jews carried out the Sabbath obligation in Scripture, that there are certain aspects of it that are not strictly practiced by SDA today. But that's a topic for further study I suppose. I think we can agree that the most important thing is a recognition of our continued duty to worship God, even though we might disagree on some of the details.
Only if we don't believe Deut 4:13, Exo 34:28 Deut 5:22 Mat 15:3-9, 1 Cor 7:19, Rev 14:12, Rev 22:14-15, Rev 12:17, 1 John 5:3, Romans 13:9, Mat 5:19-30, Mat 19:17-19, Luke 4:16, 1 John 2:3-6, Mat 7:21-23, Acts 18:4, Acts 13:42-44, Acts 16:13, Luke 23:56, James 2:10-12, Romans 7:7, Hebrews 4:4, Hebrews 4:9-11 NIV, and a plethora of other scripture, but like usual we will have to agree to disagree and it will get sorted out soon enough.
That's cool. Here, if you are suggesting that we always have an obligation to worship God in our daily actions, I totally agree.
Well, I think the third commandment fairly indicates that there is a weekly obligation to observe the Sabbath. I think the question is whether that obligation has been abrogated. I think you would say that the obligation was abrogated, or that it was never applicable to Christians in the first place. I respect that view, even though I interpret the Bible differently with respect to that point.
I would say it depends on the situation and context, reasons. If by obligation you mean that it would be a sin not to go to a church or that it would be some kind of a salvation issue, then no, there is no such obligation.
I think I understand your viewpoint. You would say that the ten commandments are not strictly binding on the Christian as law, correct?
Would you call a general refusal to worship God a sin?
Yes, the law of Moses has ended, but the eternal moral principles still continue also in the New Covenant - its still wrong to steal or murder and similar.
