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<blockquote data-quote="Soyeong" data-source="post: 70236517" data-attributes="member: 375022"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I was a Baptist for 30 years and during that time I held the mainstream view that we are not required to keep God's holidays, but over the past 3 or 4 years, I have become convinced otherwise. Part of what convinced me that I was wrong was the realization that most Christians do not share the view of God's law that is expressed in the Psalms:</p><p></p><p>Psalms 1:1-2 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night.</p><p></p><p>Psalms 119:47 for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love.</p><p></p><p>David did not view obeying God's commands as something that he had to do in spite of not wanting to, but rather doing what is holy, righteous, and good in obedience to God's instructions is a delight that we get the divine privilege of doing. Furthermore, I think Paul was in full agreement with the Psalms:</p><p></p><p>Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being,</p><p></p><p>In addition, 1 Peter 1:14-16 instructs us to have a holy conduct because God is holy, which is a reference to Leviticus where God was giving instructions for how to have a holy conduct, such as Leviticus 19:2-3. It should be pretty straightforward that keeping God's holy days is part of what it means to have a holy conduct.</p><p></p><p>Another thing that convinced me that I was wrong was observing the theme that we must obey God rather than man and being careful not to mistake something that was against obeying man's law as being against obeying God's law. For example, [USER=385249]@Greg J.[/USER] brought up Galatians 4:8-10, which is a passage that I used to use to support my position against obeying God's holy days, but upon closer consideration Paul addressed that passage to those who formerly did not know God, so he was speaking to former pagans who were not formerly observing God's holy days, so they could not turning back to observing them in the first place and could not be enslaved by them all over again. Furthermore, Paul would never have referred to the holy, righteous, and good commands of God as weak and miserable principles of the world, so the special days that Paul was speaking against in Galatians 4:10 were in regard to pagan practices, not in regard to God's commands. Once my eyes were opened to this systematic bias against God's law in how we are taught to interpret the Bible, I started seeing examples of it all over.</p><p></p><p>A third things that convinced me that I was wrong was the realization that God's commands were never about what we have to do in order to become justified, but rather they were instructions for what to do by faith because we have been justified. According to Ephesians 2:8-10, we are saved by grace through faith, not by doing good works, but for the purpose of doing good works. There is a world of difference between saying that we don't need to obey God's law in order to become justified and saying that we don't have to obey God's law. It does not follow that because we shouldn't obey God's law for a purpose for which it was never given that therefore we shouldn't obey it for the purposes for which it was given.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Soyeong, post: 70236517, member: 375022"] Hello, I was a Baptist for 30 years and during that time I held the mainstream view that we are not required to keep God's holidays, but over the past 3 or 4 years, I have become convinced otherwise. Part of what convinced me that I was wrong was the realization that most Christians do not share the view of God's law that is expressed in the Psalms: Psalms 1:1-2 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. Psalms 119:47 for I find my delight in your commandments, which I love. David did not view obeying God's commands as something that he had to do in spite of not wanting to, but rather doing what is holy, righteous, and good in obedience to God's instructions is a delight that we get the divine privilege of doing. Furthermore, I think Paul was in full agreement with the Psalms: Romans 7:22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, In addition, 1 Peter 1:14-16 instructs us to have a holy conduct because God is holy, which is a reference to Leviticus where God was giving instructions for how to have a holy conduct, such as Leviticus 19:2-3. It should be pretty straightforward that keeping God's holy days is part of what it means to have a holy conduct. Another thing that convinced me that I was wrong was observing the theme that we must obey God rather than man and being careful not to mistake something that was against obeying man's law as being against obeying God's law. For example, [USER=385249]@Greg J.[/USER] brought up Galatians 4:8-10, which is a passage that I used to use to support my position against obeying God's holy days, but upon closer consideration Paul addressed that passage to those who formerly did not know God, so he was speaking to former pagans who were not formerly observing God's holy days, so they could not turning back to observing them in the first place and could not be enslaved by them all over again. Furthermore, Paul would never have referred to the holy, righteous, and good commands of God as weak and miserable principles of the world, so the special days that Paul was speaking against in Galatians 4:10 were in regard to pagan practices, not in regard to God's commands. Once my eyes were opened to this systematic bias against God's law in how we are taught to interpret the Bible, I started seeing examples of it all over. A third things that convinced me that I was wrong was the realization that God's commands were never about what we have to do in order to become justified, but rather they were instructions for what to do by faith because we have been justified. According to Ephesians 2:8-10, we are saved by grace through faith, not by doing good works, but for the purpose of doing good works. There is a world of difference between saying that we don't need to obey God's law in order to become justified and saying that we don't have to obey God's law. It does not follow that because we shouldn't obey God's law for a purpose for which it was never given that therefore we shouldn't obey it for the purposes for which it was given. [/QUOTE]
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