Any scriptural evidence that evangelized Gentiles are to keep the Sabbath?

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One more remark: According to you the commandments to God above above all and to love the neighbor are not among the commandments referred to in the NT verses which contain phrases like "do the commandments of God". But what did Jesus say:

Mt 22:37 “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

So the most important commandments are in Deut 6:5 and Lev 19:18. How dare you to change this to Ex 20:2-17? Do you think you can correct Jesus?

According to the scriptures our Love to God is expressed by faith through obedience to God's law not by breaking it *John 14:15; 1 John 5:3. Paul teaches this in Romans 13:8-10 when he writes; [8], Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for HE THAT LOVES ANOTHER HAS FULFILLED THE LAW. [9], For this, YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT KILL, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, YOU SHALL NOT COVET; and if there be any other commandment, IT IS BRIEFLY SUMMED UP IN THIS SAYING, NAMELY, YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.[10], Love works no ill to his neighbor: therefore LOVE IS THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW.

James follows the same theme in James 2:8-12 when he writes...

[8], If you fulfill the ROYAL LAW according to the scripture, YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF, YOU DO WELL:[9], But IF YOU HAVE RESPECT TO PERSONS, YOU COMMIT SIN, AND ARE CONVINCED OF THE LAW AS TRANSGRESSORS. [10], FOR WHOEVER SHALL KEEP THE WHOLE LAW, AND YET OFFEND IN ONE POINT, HE IS GUILTY OF ALL. [11], For he that said, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, SAID ALSO, DO NOT KILL. NOW IF YOU COMMIT NO ADULTERY, YET IF YOU KILL, YOU ARE BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW. [12], So speak you, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

James and Paul are only referring to what JESUS already taught in the Gospels and the old testament scriptures when he taught his disciples about love and law from Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18. Here Jesus taught his disciples in Matthew 22:36-40 [36], when asked "MASTER, WHICH IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENT IN THE LAW?" [37], Jesus said to him, YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND. [38], THIS IS THE FIRST AND GREAT COMMANDMENT. [39], And the second is like to it, YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF. [40], ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.

Notice the context of the question being asked? JESUS is quoting from "MASTER, WHICH IS THE GREAT COMMANDMENT IN THE LAW? Jesus quotes love to God as the first and loving our neighbor as the second and then says "ON THESE TWO COMMANDMENTS HANG ALL THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS". In the law JESUS is quoting from the old testament scriptures that sum up God's 10 commandments from Deuteronomy 6:5 and Leviticus 19:18. Love is not separate from Gods Law it is expressed through it and is why JESUS says "If you love me keep my commandments" and what John says when he writes "And this is the love of God that we keep His commandments and his commandments are not grievous".

Hope this helps.
 
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this has nothing to do with the ONE tribe from the ONE son of Jacob which stood at Sinai to receive the Living Oracles from Him.
Where do you take this "one tribe" thing from? I suppose you misinterpret a verse which calls the people of Israel (all 12 tribes) a "tribe" (in some translations?).

WHY Yahushua said it was made for Man and not just Jews or those of Jacob
Why do you use a form (Yahushua) that is neither correct (three wrong vowels, I told you) nor convenient?

so Moses LIED when Yah LIED about ONE law for natives and strangers THE SAME?
No. You are the one lying if you turn the remarks that specific laws were alikwe for strangers and Israelites into a general statement about all laws, even after I pointed to a law in the Pentateuch which explicitely shows different rules for Israelites and foreigners.

Passover meat was only to the circumcised...so one NOT of Jacob could partake IF circumcised...and the same of one able to eat of an animal “died of itself”
A person not curcmcised is no Israelite, so your distinction points back to the distinction Jew/Gentile.

You miss the Law was STILL for them...as they were still saved and part of His people...ALL on condition they have faith and obey
Why do you think I missed that? Just because I didn't say it explicitly, but focused on our discussion?

on condition they have faith IN HIM not the Law...which remains only to point out sin and the One Who saves...NEVER having saved or perfected them itself
Of course. Rem,ember, I answered to one who denied it was Israelm who will be saved as a whole, reinterpreting Rom 11 aas if the cut-off branches will never be re-inserted.

again on condition...faith and obedience in Him not their Temple...as it is written “He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob”
I tell you a "secret": Since the temple has been destroyed about 1950 years ago, Jews long ago have abandoned a "faith in the temple", as Heb 8:13 predicted: This has disappeared "soon". This does not mean that they received Christ, but from Rom 11 we gain the confidence all Israel will repent (when Jesus returns, after what Gentile Christians and "Christians" did to Jews in the last two millennia, they are almost immune to preaching from this quarter, its our fault).

good to see you know what you disinherit...this law remains INCLUSIVE of the alien...
Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to the foreigner residing in any of your towns, and they may eat it
This is a law equal for Israelites and foreigners?

As does the seventh day Sabbath remain for MAN...or you claim the Lord of the Sabbath lied too...
You put this word out of context - the contrast is not "man or Jew", it is "Sabbath for us" or "we for Sabbath". If anyone interprets the Sabbath commandment in a way to make it into a burden rather than a gift, he is wrong. It is a twisting of words to read "man, not Jew" into that.

you miss this is NOT about Israel but a covenant to bless the WORLD by Abraham’s descendants....
No, it is you who misses a point: During the covenant of Sinai, God let the people in the world go their own was, only with the New Covenant of Jesus he called everyone (not just every Israelite) to repent, Acts 14:16; 17:30. The coveant about the blessing for every natiion is not thecovenant from mount Sinai.

what that Saul chased believing Jews of “the Way” OUT of the synagogues?
Why do you write "Saul" instead of "Shaul"? It is saulos in the NT for the very same reason it is iesou(s), not ieshou(s).

Even before Shaul started to persecute, one leader of the Greek-speaking part of the church was sentenced to death by the highest Jewish court.

sure it does...as Sabbath remains into the next times of trouble...
You didn't give any scriptural evidence for that.

sabbatismos is about a keeping of Monday’s?
Did I ever say anything in this direction? Please stop asking silly questions.

It remains a Hebrew-Greek mashup word
You forgot to mention Aramaic ... and a person that changes sh to s in omne name cannot compülaint about a form that only deviates from the Aramaic original in that same point.

you know those that love Him and keep His Living Oracle He handed down at Sinai...He having removed the dividing wall and destroyed in His flesh the Jew’s enmity against unclean goyim...
... and then the world saw the emergence of hatred against Israel in that very people that you refer to. It crept there from pagan antisemitism. You cannot love Jesus and hate Jews.

oh? So faith IN what but His faithfulness to the faith He authored and completed...that we might FOLLOW HIM and do the same IN HIS IMAGE
The very kernel of the Christian faith is the faith in the saving power who died on the cross and stood up again on the 3rd day.

and Paul heard answered to his question “who are you” in the Hebrew/Aramaic...which Luke notes TWICE in his retelling
Which means that he did not hers iesou(s) (pronounced "yesus", with deep long u, as "oo" in "cool"), but rather yeshu`
(with a consonant [ayin] at the end that is absent from modern Ivrit).

“Jesus” is NOT Joshua or His Name...
He is not Joshua, but he has the same name. Modern "messianic" Jews call him jhowshu` (pronounced "Joshua" in Ivrit), because they do not speak Aramaic, but rather Hebrew, so they use the Hebrew for, not the Aramaic one.

seems to be eh? The disciples were asked by what power or NAME they “done this” included healing...Acts 4:7 and were strictly forbidden to SPEAK or teach in His name...verse 18 but they persisted verse 30 which was still annoying Acts 5:28,40 but they continued daily teaching Yahushua is the annointed one 42
What do you want to say? Just putting the word "Jesus" (in any form) into your mouth has power? Well, Acts 19:11-16 tells otherwise (and v.15 shows this was not an issue about the correct variant of that name).

The word "name" has to be interpreted, especially when a literal rendering leads to a contradiction with other parts of Scripture. I did not say the correct interpretation is always the same word, you have to look into the context, of course.

That is certainly less threatening than the Pharisees’ prohibition for sure...but I stand with Peter...”we ought to obey Yah rather than Helmet”
You twisted the name of or Lord and Savior, you twisted the name of Shaul, it is no surprise you even twist my name. It's not English, it is from a German dialect, the etymology is probably something like hail-mood.

I never read in Scripture that a wrong form of the name (which, BTW, includes the form we read in the NT!) is anything we should worry about, on the contrary I read we should not dispute about words, 2Tm 2:14. So I stand up against those that make an issue about the word Jesus, and don't see the significance of that name.
 
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Not really dear friend. You would have to deny what God's Word says in Exodus 20:2-17
I do not deny anything. Let me quote the text in full:

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

If you miss any numbers, they are an addition, e.g. the verse numbering was added in the middle ages. And now tell me what makes you sure the second word does not begin with "You shall have no other gods ..."!

to claim there is only 9 commandments written there when it is God's Word (not mine) that says there are ten commandments in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4 and you can literally count ten commandments as you were shown in the previous post from Exodus 20:2-17.
I showed you that in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4, there is no word "commandment" in the original, what you cite from interpretations into other languages is no evidence.

I never denied the Scripture speaks about 10 words, and after be shown Deut 10:4, I acknowledged these 10 words are the words spoken on Sinai.

But you deny the fact that Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4 do not speak of 10 commandments - only your translation does so, but is an interpretation by translators (other godly people translate otherwise!) more than an interpretation of men? There are even English translations that say "10 words", e.g. the Darby version.

So stop lying about the word of God, saying it contains numbers it does not contain, or claiming it conforms to your translation when it does not.

The TEN commandments as shown in Exodus 20:2-17
... as they are shown in your translation, not as they really are in the original! As they really are, look at the quotation above.
 
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I don't ask people to trust me .... I ask them to compare ALL teachings and/or interpretations, viewpoints with His Word.
What does a list full of twisting the truth is anything else than an attempt people trust your list is complete and error-free?
 
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God is unchanging
Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
That means His law can not be changed.
So why do you want to change what Jesus said about the law, that its heart is in Deut 6:5 and Lev 19:18?
 
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(This is not a commandment, this is a statement)
And this very statement is the first of the 10 words, according to Jewish tradition. Do you claim you know better Hebrew then they do?

So you yourself say that the first of the 10 words (in at least one counting of them) is no command, so only 9 commands are left.

Thank you for (unintentionally) supporting my case.

And mark you: I never said the Jews were correct, I always said this is a possible and legitimate interpretation, equal to the Christian one.
 
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My question was on the rabbinic list of "Noachide laws", I know what is written in Genesis.

Paul, who was on that conference and even brought the letter to the churches in Galatia (Acts 16:4) does not show signs that this was the interpretation was the one adopted by the church.

We can dismiss Galatians, which most probably was written before that conference, but Romans and other letters do not support your view.

Rabbinic? As in now or then? My view? It is not my view...this was true regarding coverts to Judaism. It is interesting that Paul followed Torah regarding the Temple vow asked of him, yet it would have been the perfect time to show he believed otherwise.
 
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So why do you want to change what Jesus said about the law, that its heart is in Deut 6:5 and Lev 19:18?
I do not want to change anything written in the Bible from what God wrote with His own finger to what Jesus also asked, but to do it with our mind and heart.

I think that's a better question to ask yourself.

Just a thought, you have received some very thoughtful, well-written responses from @LoveGodsWord and other posters here. Maybe read those versus with an open heart and pray on it for guidance. God Bless
 
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What does a list full of twisting the truth is anything else than an attempt people trust your list is complete and error-free?



Who is to say that the same does not apply to yourself.

ALL teachings/interpretations/view points should be compared with scripture.

We can agree to disagree .... personal attacks on people and calling people names serves no good purpose.

There are many different view points on scripture and we discuss them. People should consider them and compare them with scripture .... each decide what they believe.
 
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Rabbinic? As in now or then?
As far as I can see, you equated the then rules in Acts 15 with the now rules in Judaism. I asked about the rabbinic rules, you answered with a quote from Genesis.

It is interesting that Paul followed Torah regarding the Temple vow asked of him, yet it would have been the perfect time to show he believed otherwise.
I can't see what this has to do with the question on Acts 15:21.
 
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I do not want to change anything written in the Bible from what God wrote with His own finger to what Jesus also asked, but to do it with our mind and heart.

I think that's a better question to ask yourself.
I do not want to change anything in the Bible.
 
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As far as I can see, you equated the then rules in Acts 15 with the now rules in Judaism. I asked about the rabbinic rules, you answered with a quote from Genesis.


I can't see what this has to do with the question on Acts 15:21.

No I didn't. The quote was regarding blood. Also, it has to do with what you said regarding Paul...
 
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Is there any evidence in the Bible indicating that evangelized Gentiles are expected to keep the Sabbath? If not, is there any scriptural evidence against it? Or are the Scriptures rather silent in this regard?


Isaiah 56:6-7

6 “Also the sons of the Gentile
Who join themselves to YHVH, to serve Him,
And to love the name of YHVH, to be His servants
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
 
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I do not deny anything. Let me quote the text in full:“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 1.You shall have no other gods before me. 2. You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. 3. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. 4. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. 5. Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. You shall not murder. 6. You shall not commit adultery. 7. You shall not steal. 8. You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. 10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
I took the liberty to highlight where the ten commandments are found in red above in the scriptures you quoted and counted them for you. From these scriptures above you deny that there are ten commandments from God's 10 sayings or words in the Hebrew right (see the counted red sections highlighted in your post above)? Yet there they all are spoken and written with the finger of God for all to see. Sorry dear friend but only God's Word is true *Romans 3:4 and we should believe and follow it *Acts of the Apostles 5:29 over the teachings and traditions of men that break the commandments of God *Matthew 15:3-9.
If you miss any numbers, they are an addition, e.g. the verse numbering was added in the middle ages. And now tell me what makes you sure the second word does not begin with "You shall have no other gods ..."!
Quite easily because there are ten commandments in God's "ten words" written in Exodus 20:2-17.
I showed you that in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4, there is no word "commandment" in the original, what you cite from interpretations into other languages is no evidence.
And what was demonstrated earlier was that your making straw-man arguments that no one is talking about. The Hebrew words used for the English tranaslation of ten commandments (הדברים: עשׂרת) which translates as "ten words" in the English is translated as "ten commandments" because it does not make sense in when translated from Hebrew to English. The "ten words" translation does not make any sense because in the English as God's spoken Word in Exodus 20:2-17 are more than 10 words which are given for each law. Each of these 10 laws are ten commandment which are ten sentences or in some cases paragraphs. The Hebrew translation of dabar to the "ten words" is because they are all God's ten words (plural) in the Hebrew this makes sense. He spoke them and wrote them with his own finger *Exodus 20:1-17; Exodus 32:16. Fact of the matter is that these ten words (sentences and paragraphs in English) of God are all commandments ("Thou shalt not"; "You shall not") as shown to you earlier right? Hence the English translation to "Ten commandments" solves the translation problem of from Hebrew to English and from words and sentences and paragraphs and application to context which are the ten laws or commandments given in God's Words in Exodus 20:2-17.

The correct English translation therefore is "ten commandments" and this is why the majority of bible translation translate it that way. That does not mean the "Ten words" translation is not correct, it is and I have never denied it. It is correct, but it is better understood in the English as to their implication of context as the "ten commandments" because the ten words (sentences) of God are indeed ten commandments and to deny this fact is simply being dishonest.

A Concise Dictionary of the Words in the Greek Testament and The Hebrew Bible
1697. דָבָר dâbâr, daw-bawr´; from 1696; a word; by impl. a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adv. a cause:—act, advice, affair, answer, × any such (thing), + because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, × commune (-ication), + concern [-ing], + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, × disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, [evil favoured-] ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, [no] thing, oracle, × ought, × parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, × (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some [uncleanness], somewhat to say, + song, speech, × spoken, talk, task, + that, × there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what [-soever], + wherewith, which, word, work.

The Lexham Bible Dictionary
TEN COMMANDMENTS (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, asereth haddevarim). The commandments inscribed upon the two tablets of stone that God gave to Moses at Mount Sinai (Exod 20:1–17; Deut 5:6–21).

Fact of the matter is that these "Ten words" are "Ten Commandment" written so in the "Ten words" and this is what you deny right?
I never denied the Scripture speaks about 10 words, and after be shown Deut 10:4, I acknowledged these 10 words are the words spoken on Sinai.
You do indeed deny that these "ten words" of God are "ten commandments" despite being shown they are there are ten commandments in Exodus 20:2-17
But you deny the fact that Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13 and Deuteronomy 10:4 do not speak of 10 commandments - only your translation does so, but is an interpretation by translators (other godly people translate otherwise!) more than an interpretation of men? There are even English translations that say "10 words", e.g. the Darby version. So stop lying about the word of God, saying it contains numbers it does not contain, or claiming it conforms to your translation when it does not.
Now your simply not being honest. I have denied no such thing and simply provided why הדברים: עשׂרת is translated as "ten commandments in the majority of English bible translations rather than "ten words" and why the majority of English translation translate the "ten words" to "ten commandments". It is you however that denies the fact that Exodus 20:2-17 has ten commandments written in these scriptures despite the fact they have been pointed out to you many times now in the scriptures you quote and other supporting scriptures that have also been provided that disagree with you. According to the scriptures it is those who do not keep God's commandments that are liars and the truth is not in them *1 John 2:3-4

May you receive Gods' Word and be blessed. Ignoring it does not make it disappear.
 
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Which law? The law of Mose or the law of Jesus?
Of course it is God's law of love which is expressed through faith that has the fruit of obedience to God's ten commandments. God's love is not separate from his law. God's love is expressed through His law. This is already addressed and shown in the scriptures provided in post # 481 linked. What is it you still do not understand?
 
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No I didn't. The quote was regarding blood. Also, it has to do with what you said regarding Paul...
OK, I repeat my question:

Or are Noachides expected to refrain from eating blood?

In other words: What does Judaism now say about Noachides (Gentiles that obey the rules set up after the flood)?
 
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Do you consider them different? Did Yeshua not preach and keep Torah?
You folks always mix up different themes, so I try to sort out:

The Old Covenant was, as the designation indicates, a covenant. Between God and Israel. Other people were outside the covenant (see, e.g. Acts 14:16 for an NT statement on this), so Gentiles were not subject to this covenant. Saying we Gentiles have to keep the covenant either means that we have to become Jews in order to come to Christ (a standpoint firmly rejected in Acts 15), or that a change happened and now Gentiles are required to keep the law of Moses (a standpoint firmly rejected by Paul).

I say that there was no change, and of course Jesus did not abolish the torah. Whether this means that Jews that follow Jesus have to keep the whole Torah I'm not sure, I know that different branches of "messianic Jews" give somewhat different answers to that. This is not a problem I have to solve, it makes no difference for me personally, and no one appointed me as a teacher that should teach about this.

But to say, because I explain that I'm not subject to the law of Mose, I say Jesus abolished the Torah, is twisting my word into something I never said or hinted at.
 
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Isaiah 56:6-7

6 “Also the sons of the Gentile
Who join themselves to YHVH, to serve Him,
And to love the name of YHVH, to be His servants
Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;

For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
So are we expected to sojourn to the temple in Jerusalem and bring burnt offerings and other sacrifices?

Even if we try: We can't, there is no temple in Jerusalem, no altar to offer any sacrifices.

So then, why does Isaiah say so? Bible critical persons will say he was simply wrong: This never happened, and as far as future can be predicted it will not happen. I hope no-one here takes this view, I mention it only for completeness' sake. Another view is that it is a prophecy to be fulfilled in the future, perhaps when Jesus returns and the millennium begins. I don't share that view, but I may be incorrect in that (future will tell). In any way, this is nothing about our times.

There is a third view: The temple and offerings should not be taken literally. We know the "third temple" has already been built at the resurrection of Jesus (John 2:19-22) ...

So, if verse 7 is not literally true, but has to be interpreted spiritually (I feel "figuratively" is not the best term for that), why should we take verse 6 literally?

So I reach to the conclusion this is not "evidence in the Bible indicating that evangelized Gentiles are expected to keep the Sabbath", the thing truth seeker has asked for.
 
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