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I'm reading "The Rest of God" by Mark Buchanan. it's been on the market for a while now and the book itself has been gifted to me twice and I also found it among my kindle collection but I've never gotten past the first chapter. So I thought I would actually try and finish it. Like before, I...

Or put another way is physical rest inferior to spiritual rest. Holistic health is important and I'm not trying to say the body doesn't need physical rest or that routine physical rest is not a healthy focus. Physical rest is important but my question is if spiritual rest is of greater...

We are all smart enough to substitute cutting grass with any number of things. The point is not the act, so let's not scrutinize grass-cutting, the point is a motivation to help someone in need. Christ tells us it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath but some wish to debate that this goodness...

2 Corinthians 6:3-10 (NIV) We put no stumbling block in anyone’s path, so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships and distresses; in beatings, imprisonments and riots; in hard work...

Mat 12:11-12 [Jesus] said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out? How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” Jesus first mentions an exception to the 4th...

what does written upon our hearts mean? we can't abandon logic just to satisfy our traditions. So we shouldn't just superimpose whatever law as law upon our hearts if it simply doesn't make sense. laws written upon our hearts are inherently natural laws, laws that we don't have to be told to...

Assuming motivations are aligned to the gospel, it is good to help a disabled widow by cutting her grass? if we call this good, is it not also good on the Sabbath as Christ tells us "it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath" (Mat 12:12) it's a simple question but please stick to answering it and...

Jesus tells gives a heuristic approach to the Sabbath saying "it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath". (Mt 12:12) This demands the question then "What is good?" At least in the explicit context doing good is pulling sheep out of pits, healing withered hands, levitical priestly duties on the...

Genesis 1:28 God charges man to be fruitful and multiply. Then the 7th day begins. Was it still man's duty to be fruitful and multiply on this day? If so how can we apply this today?

In defence of healing on the Sabbath Jesus uses an example of pulling sheep out of pits (Mat 12) to show that doing good on the Sabbath is lawful. Can we infer from this that it's wrong to leave sheep in pits on the Sabbath? This then demands us to unpack what sheep are.

With regard to Sabbath and law, there is requirement and there is purpose. A stop sign's requirement is to stop (which should be obvious), but its purpose is about the goal behind the stopping. If a stop sign is at a traffic intersection its purpose may be about safety, if at a police check...

in the Genesis creation account (ch 1) it says "the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep" (v2) then light is spoken into the darkness (v3). So what is this darkness? 2 Cor 4:6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our...

Sabbath is a theme presented throughout the bible, especially with the overlapping concepts of rest and completion. When we extract Sabbath from a specific context it's akin to the blind men and an elephant. Each man describes the elephant based on what they can obverse which is limited mostly...

I think it's important to understand perspectives of different demograpics so that we can know better how to related to each other. So i'm curious to know who am I speaking with and how we can better relate, not on a personal level but broadly with your demographic. They say millennials don't...

Just curious

Ex 31:18 and De 9:10 both use the expression/phrase "finger of God" to describe the manner in which the 10 commandments are inscribed. Since God is spirit, not body this is either an anthropomorphic reference or a manifestation in physical form of God for this event. Whatever the case, does...

Any context, any scripture, any verse, etc.... does any of it have meaning outside of Christ?

Let's start with some ground rules I'm not looking for a discussion on how to keep the 4th commandment or if we should or should not keep it. I've used the words "God's Rest" deliberately so as to remove a narrow focus on the 4th commandment and discuss Sabbath on a broader level from Genesis...

most of these sabbath threads soon turn into the same back and forth from the same people and with the same canned arguments (myself included and if it's you too you know who you are). But for the moment let's table the arguments of the requirement of the Sabbath and talk about the purpose of...

Hebrews 4:9-11 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. 9There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter...