Thanks
We have free will.
This is not a debate area for figuring out if non-SDAs accept Ellen White as a prophet. We all assume they do not.
Obviously.
Interesting speculation. I prefer
the actual Bible however.
Lev 23:3 the 7th day Sabbath is
a day of "Holy Convocation"
Is 66:23 "
from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship"
Acts 18:4 "
every Sabbath" both Jews and gentiles gathered in the synagogue to hear Gospel preaching and to worship.
Now that IS the truth...do with it what you will
You are of course free to look at any material you wish. And you can speculate as you wish.
My post simply stated that I prefer the actual Bible.
And yet you post that no Bible text directs us to have "holy convocation" to meet for corporate worship on the Bible Sabbath -- after reading this?
Lev 23:3 the 7th day Sabbath is
a day of "Holy Convocation"
Is 66:23 "
from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship"
Acts 18:4 "
every Sabbath" both Jews and gentiles gathered in the synagogue to hear Gospel preaching and to worship.
And as for
Leviticus 23:3 it reads “
Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work; it is a Sabbath unto the LORD in all your dwellings. “
And so of course - all Israel gathered for worship in the Temple and in the synagogues on the Bible Sabbath ... in the NT they gather even by "the river" on the Bible Sabbath if no Synagogue was available.
Not true.
Hannah brought Samuel a new set of clothes "
from year to year" (does not mean "every day")
The saints gather for worship "
from Sabbath to Sabbath" -- a term never used to mean "every day" in all of scripture.
Isaiah 66 gives TWO distinct cycles "from new moon to new moon" AND "from Sabbath to Sabbath" -- a monthly cycle and a weekly cycle... not "every day"
Bible details matter.
obviously.
True. And we are "Christians"
The "Command" is for "Holy Convocation".
I never argue that if one is on a camping trip and cannot attend a church service that a family gathering for worship on Sabbath is not "Holy Convocation" -- I think you are trying to "spin" this.
That was true every Sabbath.
But Acts 18:4 is specifically about Gospel preaching and worship on Sabbath. In fact on "
Every Sabbath".
No such "every-week-day-1" gathering for Gospel preaching and worship in all of the NT.
5 One man esteems one day above another: another esteems every day
Does not mention the 7th day Sabbath of the Ten Commandments at all.
The one who "esteems" is in fact "observing the day" in Rom 14 as a holy day
.
6 He who observes the day, observes it for the Lord, and he who eats, does so for the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who eats not, for the Lord he does not eat, and gives thanks to God.
It refers to the annual holy days of Lev 2
3
Paul flatly condemns observing every day as a holy day in places like Gal 4 where observing pagan holy days is outright condemned.
And he says "he who does not work - neither let him eat"
Correction - in real life the simple fact that we differ is not the same thing as "misrepresenting" someone.
Which did absolutely nothing to refute/delete/change the point that even if in some cases someone observes Sabbath at home without going to church - they are still commanded to come before God and worship from Sabbath to Sabbath in Isaiah 66:23 for holy convocation and that going to church is doing that very thing ... in fact "all mankind" is to do it (it does not get more corporate-worship than that.)
And what is more the ENTIRE CHAPTER of Lev 23 is in regard to "Days of Holy Convocation" which at ALL examples of corporate worship.
The point remains.
Bible details do matter as it turns out.