A sabbath question

[ultra.immaculate]

Hello,

I would like to know if spending money on the Sabbath is a sin or something that we should not do but not a sin (for example, throwing trash on the ground).
In Nehemiah 13:16, a people called the Tyrians sold goods on the Sabbath and Nehemiah confronts them in verse 17 saying, ''...What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?''. The word for ''profane'' in verse 17 is the Hebrew word ''חָלַל'' (H2490).

 

[HARK!]

I look at it this way:

If I spend money to say have lunch on the Shabbat, I put the employees in a position to have the owner of the restaurant to tell them that they must break Shabbat to keep their jobs at the restaurant.

Now some of them might be Christians, who don't understand that the 7th day is the Shabbat, not the 1st day.

Should I put that stumbling block in my brother's path? Of course that is a rhetorical question.

However on the other hand, my brother has injured himself on the Shabbat; and he is bleeding; or he is sick and vomiting.

I would just as soon visit a pharmacy, where the employees didn't recognize the Shabbat: as I would help to pull my neighbor's animal out of a pit.

This latter scenario is not advice. Your decision is between you and our Creator; but Yahshua did heal on the Shabbat.

 

[.Mikha'el.]

Hello,

I would like to know if spending money on the Sabbath is a sin or something that we should not do but not a sin (for example, throwing trash on the ground).
In Nehemiah 13:16, a people called the Tyrians sold goods on the Sabbath and Nehemiah confronts them in verse 17 saying, ''...What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?''. The word for ''profane'' in verse 17 is the Hebrew word ''חָלַל'' (H2490).

If you know that Scripture calls buying and selling of goods on Sabbath a profanity of the day, why would you be asking us here in the forum whether it's acceptable to do? Are you looking for approval from someone who may have a contrary answer?