The Ten Commandments are the Covenant, did you know?

chevyontheriver said:

Of course not because the Sabbath is still the Sabbath, at least according to the Catholic Church. Catholics observed the day of resurrection early on, but did not change the Sabbath day.

Actually not so gradual.

Constantine wouldn't have done that unless Sunday was already the established day for worship. The Church had already done that a few centuries before.

Yup. Sunday is the Lord's Day, the Eighth Day, the observance of the Resurrection. No pretense that it is the Sabbath, which is still Saturday.

Yup.

We aren't 'observing the Sabbath'. It's an observation of the resurrection. If you don't want to observe the resurrection that's your business.

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fhansen said:

Savage wolves have always come in, generally posing as or believing themselves to be the holiest ones, with several offspring wolflings born in the 19th century, stirring and spreading confusion, often silliness, while detracting from the full-true message. Meanwhile God has continued to preserve and govern the church He established, with its human warts and all.

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Deuteronomy 4:1-2 (NKJV):​

fhansen said:

And the ancient churches from the beginning have consistentl, strongly, taught the keeping of the commandments, in the face of animosity from those who call it a "works righteousness" mentaltiy.

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Deuteronomy 4:1-2 (NKJV):​

Freth said:

The New Testament calls for commandment keeping. Here are some proofs.

Entering Life

• Matthew 19:17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.

Loving God

• John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
• John 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
• John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
• 1Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.
• 1 John 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
• 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Knowing Him

• 1 John 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
• 1 John 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Prayers Answered

• 1 John 3:22 And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.

Receiving the Holy Spirit

• 1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

The Saints Defined

• Revelation 12:17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Entering the City

• Revelation 22:14-15 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

If the New Testament calls for commandment keeping, namely, the commandments of God, then all Ten are binding, including the Sabbath commandment.

The Seal of God

God said to remember, because it is a sign, a perpetual covenant.

• Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
• Exodus 31:13-16 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

"The Sabbath commandment only applies to Israel specifically."

And yet the New Testament equates commandment keeping with:

• Entering Life
• Loving God
• Knowing Him
• Prayers Answered
• Receiving the Holy Spirit
• The Saints
• Entering the City

Christianity defined and salvation in a nutshell.

There are many more proofs. This is just a short list.

Evidence of Sunday Sacredness in Scripture

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chevyontheriver said:

You have found so many people to look down upon. Does it make you happy?

I should have known better than to get involved with this thread and the SDA tradition of your supposed prophetess Ellen Gould White. Talk about the traditions of men ….

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fhansen said:

The church continued to teach all ten commandments, exactly as they are, with the obligation to obey them; antinomianism, or even the question as to whether or not the law must be obeyed, is largely a novel introduction although James was already dealing with elements of it in his second chapter. And yes, the church can change the way in which the sabbath commandment is obeyed, only if that change came from God; if that's how the church, Christ's followers, received it, IOW.

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trophy33 said:

Yup.

"If you keep the Sabbath, why not also be circumcised? And if circumcised, why not also offer sacrifices? If the Law is to be observed, it must be observed in its entirety"
Justin Martyr, cca 100-165 AD

"If, then, those who had lived according to the ancient practices came to the newness of hope, no longer keeping the Sabbath but living in accordance with the Lord’s day"
Ignatios to Magnesians, 110 AD

"They [the early saints of the Old Testament] did not care about circumcision of the body, neither do we [Christians]. They did not care about observing Sabbaths, nor do we" (Church History 1:4:8, A.D. 312)
Eusebius of Caesarea

"Fall not away either into the sect of the Samaritans or into Judaism, for Jesus Christ has henceforth ransomed you. Stand aloof from all observance of Sabbaths and from calling any indifferent meats common or unclean" (Catechetical Lectures 4:37, A.D. 350)
Cyril of Jerusalem

And others. The view of the first church regarding Sabbath seems the most similar to the Helvetic reformed view, of all current church traditions.

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