Is the sabbath still a moral law?

JohnClay said:

Some Christians say that morality should be absolute i.e. be from God - since people often can't agree when talking about subjective morality.

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The Bible does not distinguish between moral and non-moral laws as though there were some laws that are moral to disobey. In Matthew 22:36-40, Jesus summarized the Mosaic Law as being about how to love God and our neighbor, so if morality were only in regard to the laws that are about our relationship with our brother and not our relationship with God, then it would be moral to commit idolatry, but if it is also in regard to our relationship with God, then again all of God's laws are moral laws. Likewise, the Bible never uses the category of ceremonial law.

So is it a sin to work on the sabbath?

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Sin is defined as the transgression of God's Law (1 John 3:4) and God's Law says to keep the Sabbath holy (Exodus 20:8-11), therefore it is a sin to do regular work on the Sabbath.

Soyeong said:

The theme has always been to the Jew first and then to the Gentles. The Law given to Jews was given to them in order to equip them to be a light and a blessing to the nations through teaching them to repent of their sins and how to walk in God's ways (Isaiah 2:2-3). The Sabbath was given to teach us about who God is and what He has done, so there is no sense in someone from the nations seeing the God of Israel put on display and wanting to become His follower, but not wanting to follow the instructions that He gave to teach us about who He is. For Gentiles it is about seeing the program of God and buying into it.

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Which was dealt with in Acts 15, and at greater length in Galatians.

Soyeong said:

In Colossians 2:16-23, Paul described the people who were judging them as teaching human traditions and precepts, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, so they were being judged by pagans. This means that the Colossians were keeping God's holy days in obedience to His commands in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow and Paul was encouraging them not to let any man judge them and keep them from obeying God.

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Paul made no distinction from the people who were teaching them and the people who were judging them. Furthermore, the interpretation that it was good for them to keep those days is also inconsistent with Galatians 4:9-11. Therefore, it is false.

Soyeong said:

Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand (Matthew 4:17-23) and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel of Christ, including repenting from breaking the Sabbath. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law, so obedience to God's Law has always been about trusting Him to guide us in how to rightly live.

If God gave you an option about whether or not you wanted to follow a law and you knew nothing about what it would be other than that God said that it would be for your own good, then would you trust God to give it to you, or would you want to be off the hook?

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If it's completely optional and not required for salvation or to walk in his favor (which Sabbath would be at most for me), I'll take the path of least resistance, and enjoy the freedom he gave me.

Sketcher said:

Which was dealt with in Acts 15, and at greater length in Galatians.

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Neither Paul nor the Jerusalem Council had the authority to countermand God or to tell Gentiles not to obey any of His commands, nor did they try to do so, nor should you follow them instead of God if you think that is what they were doing. In Acts 15:1, they were wanting to require all Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved, however, that was never the purpose for which God commanded circumcision. So the problem was that circumcision was being used for a man-made purpose that went above and beyond the purposes that God commanded it for, which was in fact contrary to them. So the Jerusalem Council upheld God's Law by correctly ruling against that requirement and a ruling against requiring Gentiles to obey what God never commanded should not be mistaken as being a ruling against obeying what God has commanded.

Paul made no distinction from the people who were teaching them and the people who were judging them.

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In Colossians 2:8, Paul would never have described those teaching obedience to God's holy, righteous, and good Law as taking people captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ, especially because Christ lived in sinless obedience to that Law. Again, he describe the elemental spirits of the world in verse 20-23 as teaching human traditions and precepts, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, so they were being taught and judged by pagans and Paul was encouraging them not to let any man judge them and keep them from obeying God.

Furthermore, the interpretation that it was good for them to keep those days is also inconsistent with Galatians 4:9-11. Therefore, it is false.

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In Galatians 4:8-11, Paul address these verses to those who formerly did no know God, also known as former pagans. As such, they were not formerly keeping God's holy days and therefore Paul could not have been criticizing them for returning to them, so again whatever he was referring to in verse 10 was in the context of paganism, not God's holy days. The verses that you've cited are great examples of how people have systematically taken verses that were only against obeying man-made laws and traditions as being against obeying God.

If it's completely optional and not required for salvation or to walk in his favor (which Sabbath would be at most for me), I'll take the path of least resistance, and enjoy the freedom he gave me.

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While we are not saved by obeying God's Law as though it were something that we needed to earn, it is also true that we are not saved while refusing to obey it. In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, which is essentially what God's Law was given to instruct how to do. Our salvation is from sin and sin is disobedience to God's Law (1 John 3:4), so being trained by grace to live in obedience to God's Law through faith is what being saved from living in disobedience to God's Law looks like.

If we love God, have faith in Him to guide us in how to rightly live, and have that His Law was given for our own good in order to bless us, then we will seek out reasons for why we have the delight in getting to obey God's Law rather than looking for every excuse under the sun to avoid following his guidance. The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to sin.

Sketcher said:

Right, which is covered by what I said originally - that's limited to Israelite lands.


Which is what Jesus said to Jews, who were under the Law. Gentiles living outside of Judea would therefore keep their aforementioned exemptions under this.


Paul, Peter, and James were all on the same track (Acts 15).



I'm with Martin Luther instead. When Martin Luther and Jewish teachers both say the same thing about the Law, I pay attention:

From: How Christians Should Regard Moses | Word of His Grace

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I'm with Martin Luther instead. When Martin Luther and Jewish teachers both say the same thing about the Law, I pay attention:

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I'm with Jesus instead. When Jesus and Jewish teachers both did the same thing about the Law, I pay attention.

To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. (is this just for the Jews)?

1 Peter 2:21

John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love.

eleos1954 said:

I'm with Jesus instead. When Jesus and Jewish teachers both did the same thing about the Law, I pay attention.

To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. (is this just for the Jews)?

1 Peter 2:21

John 15:10
If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and remain in His love.

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This question was resolved in Acts 15. I was born a Gentile. I do not have to adopt Jewish practices in order to be a Christian.

Soyeong said:

Neither Paul nor the Jerusalem Council had the authority to countermand God or to tell Gentiles not to obey any of His commands, nor did they try to do so, nor should you follow them instead of God if you think that is what they were doing. In Acts 15:1, they were wanting to require all Gentiles to become circumcised in order to become saved, however, that was never the purpose for which God commanded circumcision. So the problem was that circumcision was being used for a man-made purpose that went above and beyond the purposes that God commanded it for, which was in fact contrary to them. So the Jerusalem Council upheld God's Law by correctly ruling against that requirement and a ruling against requiring Gentiles to obey what God never commanded should not be mistaken as being a ruling against obeying what God has commanded.

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Their letter to the Gentiles, inspired by the Holy Spirit, was not limited to whether or not Gentiles needed to be circumcised. Many other commands were not included in the list that they sent them to follow. Among them was keeping Sabbath. Sure, James assumed they would be in the synagogue on Sabbath, but that isn't keeping Sabbath - one would also need to avoid everything the Jews considered to be work on the Sabbath as well, and there is no evidence or hint in the text that they were doing this.

Soyeong said:

In Colossians 2:8, Paul would never have described those teaching obedience to God's holy, righteous, and good Law as taking people captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ, especially because Christ lived in sinless obedience to that Law. Again, he describe the elemental spirits of the world in verse 20-23 as teaching human traditions and precepts, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, so they were being taught and judged by pagans and Paul was encouraging them not to let any man judge them and keep them from obeying God.

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Except pagans wouldn't have a reason to require people to keep Sabbath. Paul was all about the Gospel. He left trying to live according to the Law to justify himself before God behind, in favor of the Gospel. He still kept the Law through the lens of the Gospel, but he never required Gentile Christians to keep Sabbath, ever.

Soyeong said:

In Galatians 4:8-11, Paul address these verses to those who formerly did no know God, also known as former pagans. As such, they were not formerly keeping God's holy days and therefore Paul could not have been criticizing them for returning to them, so again whatever he was referring to in verse 10 was in the context of paganism, not God's holy days. The verses that you've cited are great examples of how people have systematically taken verses that were only against obeying man-made laws and traditions as being against obeying God.

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Except it was Jews and the Law that they were turning to. The weak and miserable principles were those of earning your way into God's favor by keeping the Law.

Soyeong said:

While we are not saved by obeying God's Law as though it were something that we needed to earn, it is also true that we are not saved while refusing to obey it. In Titus 2:11-14, our salvation is described as being trained by grace to do what is godly, righteous, and good, and to renounce doing what is ungodly, which is essentially what God's Law was given to instruct how to do. Our salvation is from sin and sin is disobedience to God's Law (1 John 3:4), so being trained by grace to live in obedience to God's Law through faith is what being saved from living in disobedience to God's Law looks like.

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Only the commands we have been given, and since I'm a Gentile, Sabbath was never one of them for me.

Soyeong said:

If we love God, have faith in Him to guide us in how to rightly live, and have that His Law was given for our own good in order to bless us, then we will seek out reasons for why we have the delight in getting to obey God's Law rather than looking for every excuse under the sun to avoid following his guidance. The freedom that we have in Christ is the freedom from sin, not the freedom to sin.

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I'm free from sin, and not free to sin. I'm also free from having to live like a Jew in order to not sin.

Soyeong said:

Paul did not have the authority to countermand God, nor did he try to do so, nor should you follow him instead of God even if your interpretation of those verses were correct.

In Colossians 2:16-23, Paul described the people who were judging them as teaching human traditions and precepts, self-made religion, asceticism, and severity to the body, so they were being judged by pagans. This means that the Colossians were keeping God's holy days in obedience to His commands in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow and Paul was encouraging them not to let any man judge them and keep them from obeying God.

The topic of Romans 14 stated in the first verses is in regard to how to handle disputable matters of opinion, not in regard to whether followers of God should follow His commands, so nothing in the chapter should be interpreted as Paul teaching rebellion against God. There is a big difference between a day that a man esteems as a matter of opinion and a day that someone follows because God commanded it. For example, God gave no command to fast twice a week, but in the 1st century that had become a common practice (Luke 18:12).

In Romans 14:5-6, it speaks about those who eat or refrain from eating until the Lord, so it is speaking about those who esteem certain days for fasting as a disputable matter of opinion and has nothing to do with whether followers of God should follow His command to keep the Sabbath holy in accordance with the example that Christ set for us to follow. The Sabbath is not even mentioned once in Romans 14. Paul was not suggesting that we are free to commit murder, theft, adultery, idolatry, breaking the Sabbath, or disobey any of God's other commands as long as we are convinced in our own minds that it is ok, but rather that was said only in regard to issues that are disputable matters of opinion.

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16) Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17) These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.

"a Sabbath day"
Strong's Concordance
sabbaton: the Sabbath, i.e. the seventh day (of the week)
Original Word: σάββατον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: sabbaton
Phonetic Spelling: (sab'-bat-on)
Definition: the Sabbath, the seventh day (of the week)
Usage: the Sabbath, a week.

Jesus is the fulfillment of the Sabbath. Jesus is our Sabbath rest, in Whom we find complete rest from the labors of our self-effort, because He alone is holy and righteous. "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Corinthians 5:21). We can now cease from our spiritual labors and rest in Him, not just one day a week, but always.

JohnClay said:

@eleos1954 wrote:
Hell


In Numbers 15:32-36 God commanded the people to kill the man who was found gathering sticks on the sabbath.
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I replied:
These days many people and animals work on the sabbath (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday) - it seems to me the moral law regarding the sabbath is ignored.

Is it true that God's morality never changes? If so, why is it that people who work on the sabbath (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday) aren't seen as being immoral?

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Yes, the Sabbath is a moral statute that continues till the end of the world, before we enter the eternal rest. It preceded the Mosaic code, and was first instituted on the seventh day of creation. Since the resurrection of Christ, it has changed to the first day of the week.

The reason some Christians don't observe the day is that their conscience remains pacified from what is clearly evident in themselves regarding a day that should be set apart for God alone by the false idea that it was something of Jewish origin and has no relation to the Christian Church today...that and Dispensationalism, a more recent theological worldview, teaches this lie.

AvgJoe said:

16) Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17) These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.

"a Sabbath day"
Strong's Concordance
sabbaton: the Sabbath, i.e. the seventh day (of the week)
Original Word: σάββατον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: sabbaton
Phonetic Spelling: (sab'-bat-on)
Definition: the Sabbath, the seventh day (of the week)
Usage: the Sabbath, a week.

Jesus is the fulfillment of the Sabbath. Jesus is our Sabbath rest, in Whom we find complete rest from the labors of our self-effort, because He alone is holy and righteous. "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Corinthians 5:21). We can now cease from our spiritual labors and rest in Him, not just one day a week, but always.

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I didn't deny that it is speaking about the Sabbath. If you look at 2:16 by itself, then it is ambiguous as to whether Paul was saying not to let anyone judge them for keeping God's Sabbaths or for not keeping them. However, if we look at the context of what Paul described of the views of the people who judging them and keep in mind the theme that we must obey God rather than man, then it becomes clear that they were being judged by pagans and were therefore being judged because they were keeping God's Sabbaths. So Paul was encouraging them not to let any man judge them for keeping God's holy days.

Jesus was one of many who fulfilled the Law by keeping teaching us how to obey it by word and by example. He kept the Sabbath holy and we are told to follow his example (1 Peter 2:21-22), so if we find our rest in him, then we will keep the Sabbath holy. When Jesus said that we would find rest for our souls, he was remezing Jeremiah 6:16-19, where God's Law is described as the good way where we will find rest for our souls. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law, so this rest for our souls comes through having faith in God to guide us through His Law, not from taking a break from following His guidance.

If God's Law were His instructions for how to become self-righteous and if God does not want us to become self-righteous, then it would follow that God therefore does not want to be obeyed, which is absurd considering that all throughout the Bible He wanted His people to repent and to return to obedience to His Law. Rather, His Law is His instructions for how to express His righteousness. When we have a character trait, then we will express it through our actions, so when God declares us to be righteous by grace through faith, He is also declaring us to be someone who expresses His righteousness through our actions in obedience to His instructions for how to do that found in His Law. In other words, the reason that we have received the righteousness of God was not in order to hide it under a bushel, but in order to let it shine through our obedience, and this is how we find our rest in Him.

In Hebrews 4:9-11, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, so we should continue to keep it holy in obedience to God's command in accordance with the example that Jesus set for us to follow. Furthermore, verse 11 says that we should strive to enter into that rest so that no one may fall away by the same sort of disobedience, so you using entering into God's rest to justify the same sort of disobedience is exactly the opposite of what was being said.

Sketcher said:

Their letter to the Gentiles, inspired by the Holy Spirit, was not limited to whether or not Gentiles needed to be circumcised. Many other commands were not included in the list that they sent them to follow. Among them was keeping Sabbath. Sure, James assumed they would be in the synagogue on Sabbath, but that isn't keeping Sabbath - one would also need to avoid everything the Jews considered to be work on the Sabbath as well, and there is no evidence or hint in the text that they were doing this.

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I agree that it was inspired by the Holy Spirit, but if you think that Acts 15 was teaching Gentiles to rebel against what God has commanded, then you should not consider it to be inspired by the Spirit. The Spirit is not in disagreement with the Father about which laws we should follow, but rather in Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey His Law.

When you have a bunch of Gentiles coming out of paganism who are not familiar with Christianity, then in order to avoid overwhelming them it becomes important to be on the same page of what which things need to be taught right away and which things can be taught over time as they mature in their faith. So they started them off with just the basics that would allow for a clean break from paganism, which they excused in Acts 15:21 by saying that they would continue to learn how to obey Moses by hearing him taught every Sabbath in the synagogues. Having every appearance of continuing to obey God's command to keep the Sabbath holy in accordance with what Jesus taught by word and by example, but super secretly living in disobedience to God doesn't fly.

Except pagans wouldn't have a reason to require people to keep Sabbath. Paul was all about the Gospel. He left trying to live according to the Law to justify himself before God behind, in favor of the Gospel. He still kept the Law through the lens of the Gospel, but he never required Gentile Christians to keep Sabbath, ever.

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I didn't say that the pagans were requiring them for keeping God's holy days, but that the pagans were judging them because they were keeping God's holy days.

Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand (Matthew 4:17-23) and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel of Christ, which includes the command to keep the Sabbath holy. The same goes for Acts 2:38 when Peter told his audience to repent for the forgiveness of sins. In Romans 15:4, Paul said that OT Scripture was written for our instruction and in 15:18-19, his Gospel message involved bringing the Gentiles to full obedience in word and in deed, so his Gospel was on the same page in regard to teaching repentance from our sins.

Except it was Jews and the Law that they were turning to. The weak and miserable principles were those of earning your way into God's favor by keeping the Law.

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Again, if they were not formerly keeping God's Law, then Paul could not have been criticizing them for returning to it. We are not justified by obeying God's Law because it was never given for that purpose, but that doesn't mean that we shouldn't obey it for the purposes for which it was given. In Matthew 23:23, Jesus said that faith is one of the weightier matters of the Law and in 1 John 5:3, to love God is to obey His commandments, which are not burdensome, so obedience to God has always been about expressing our faith and love and has never been about trying to earn our way into His favor.

Only the commands we have been given, and since I'm a Gentile, Sabbath was never one of them for me.

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Gentiles are not permitted to sin and sin is defined as the transgression of God's Law, therefore Gentiles are required to obey God's Law.

I'm free from sin, and not free to sin. I'm also free from having to live like a Jew in order to not sin.

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The existence of sin requires there to be a standard of what is and is not sin, and that standard is God's Law. If you are free from God's Law, then you are free to do what it reveals to be sin, but rather Jesus freed us from sin so that we could be free to live in obedience to God's Law.

Sketcher said:

This question was resolved in Acts 15. I was born a Gentile. I do not have to adopt Jewish practices in order to be a Christian.

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I see ... so you don't need to keep any of the 10 commandments ... because they were all given only to the Jews.

JohnClay said:

Where in the Bible does it say that God has changed the Sabbath day to Sunday? If he did then I thought his people (the Jews) would have also updated it...

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Nowhere. As you know well. (from your posts/ history, little that I've read). (Good for you!) ...

Soyeong said:

I agree that it was inspired by the Holy Spirit, but if you think that Acts 15 was teaching Gentiles to rebel against what God has commanded, then you should not consider it to be inspired by the Spirit. The Spirit is not in disagreement with the Father about which laws we should follow, but rather in Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey His Law.

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Everyone obeys one or the other , "who" they follow, is their God or god ?

Isn't it better to always obey God ? There is no other living god... well, unless people who worship people counts .....

JohnClay said:

@eleos1954 wrote:
Hell


In Numbers 15:32-36 God commanded the people to kill the man who was found gathering sticks on the sabbath.
Hell

I replied:
These days many people and animals work on the sabbath (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday) - it seems to me the moral law regarding the sabbath is ignored.

Is it true that God's morality never changes? If so, why is it that people who work on the sabbath (sundown Friday to sundown Saturday) aren't seen as being immoral?

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God does not change his law does not change either. However Those under grace/the atonement offered by Christ no long obtain 'morality/righteousness' by the law but through the righteousness intrinsic to Christ himself. It is not our deeds that make the saved righteous it is the deeds of Christ that we are submerged in that makes us righteous.

JohnClay said:

Where in the Bible does it say that God has changed the Sabbath day to Sunday? If he did then I thought his people (the Jews) would have also updated it...

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Never happened. Christians have our services on Sunday to remember and celebrate the Resurrection. The Jewish Christian disciples would have celebrated Sabbath normally, and again on Sunday.

eleos1954 said:

I see ... so you don't need to keep any of the 10 commandments ... because they were all given only to the Jews.

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The 10 commandments repeat several Noahide laws, which we should keep. Gentiles have few laws to keep to be considered righteous according to Judaism, Jews have those plus many other laws to keep to be considered righteous - and for Jews, the Law is a package deal. There is no "ceremonial law" and "moral law" to them, it's all just "law".

Soyeong said:

I agree that it was inspired by the Holy Spirit, but if you think that Acts 15 was teaching Gentiles to rebel against what God has commanded, then you should not consider it to be inspired by the Spirit. The Spirit is not in disagreement with the Father about which laws we should follow, but rather in Ezekiel 36:26-27, the Spirit has the role of leading us to obey His Law.

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Ezekiel 36:26-27 was said specifically to the Jews.

Soyeong said:

When you have a bunch of Gentiles coming out of paganism who are not familiar with Christianity, then in order to avoid overwhelming them it becomes important to be on the same page of what which things need to be taught right away and which things can be taught over time as they mature in their faith. So they started them off with just the basics that would allow for a clean break from paganism, which they excused in Acts 15:21 by saying that they would continue to learn how to obey Moses by hearing him taught every Sabbath in the synagogues.

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If that were correct, Paul would have no reason to write to the Galatians at all.

Soyeong said:

I didn't say that the pagans were requiring them for keeping God's holy days, but that the pagans were judging them because they were keeping God's holy days.

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Which there is zero evidence for.

Soyeong said:

Jesus began his ministry with the Gospel message to repent from our sins for the Kingdom of God is at hand (Matthew 4:17-23) and the Mosaic Law was how his audience knew what sin is, so repenting from our disobedience to it is an integral part of the Gospel of Christ, which includes the command to keep the Sabbath holy. The same goes for Acts 2:38 when Peter told his audience to repent for the forgiveness of sins.

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Given to Jews on both counts.

Soyeong said:

In Romans 15:4, Paul said that OT Scripture was written for our instruction and in 15:18-19, his Gospel message involved bringing the Gentiles to full obedience in word and in deed, so his Gospel was on the same page in regard to teaching repentance from our sins.

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None of those verses indicate that Gentiles are to follow the Law.

Soyeong said:

Gentiles are not permitted to sin and sin is defined as the transgression of God's Law, therefore Gentiles are required to obey God's Law.

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Sin for Jews is transgression of the law he gave to the Jews. Sin for Gentiles is transgression of the moral commands he gave to all people. They're not the same standard. If you think they are, you don't know the Law.

Sketcher said:

The 10 commandments repeat several Noahide laws, which we should keep. Gentiles have few laws to keep to be considered righteous according to Judaism, Jews have those plus many other laws to keep to be considered righteous - and for Jews, the Law is a package deal. There is no "ceremonial law" and "moral law" to them, it's all just "law".

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We are all the same. We are all one through Christ Jesus. His word is clear with that.

Galatians 3:28

New Living Translation
There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Acts 10:34

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

Romans 10:12

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 2:11

For God shows no partiality.

Colossians 3:11

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

There is not certain laws for the Jews and certain laws for the Gentiles.

This is the "package deal" for all believers.

Revelation 14:12

New King James Version
Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

eleos1954 said:

We are all the same. We are all one through Christ Jesus. His word is clear with that.

Galatians 3:28

New Living Translation
There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Acts 10:34

So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,

Romans 10:12

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 2:11

For God shows no partiality.

Colossians 3:11

Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all.

There is not certain laws for the Jews and certain laws for the Gentiles.

This is the "package deal" for all believers.

Revelation 14:12

New King James Version
Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

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We're all one in Christ Jesus. But as the Spirit declared in Acts 15, I am not under the Law. As the Spirit declared through Paul in Galatians 5:1-8, teaching Gentiles to follow the entire Law cuts in on the Gospel. Moreover, Sabbath-keeping was not listed as a fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23. Rather, it was listed as evidence that Gentiles were turning away from the Gospel to the Law in Galatians 4:9-11.