Do Protestants believe in the Ten Commandments?

[S Walch]

But God spoke and told Moses the Ten Commandments. I do not need any other Scripture to tell me anything else. I've heard it from the mouth of God.

Then I hope you rest between 6pm Friday and 6pm Saturday then, as that's the Sabbath - the 7th day refered to in the 10 commandments.

Lords day doesn't = sabbath.

 

[tulc]

It's ok Dave, they want to just go around the question by keep saying the Sabbath is on a certain day, yet they won't answer the question. The more I hear from these seperated brethren, the more thankful I am a roman Catholic.

...we did answer the question. The fourth commandment is about keeping the Sabbath (seventh day of the week) holy. Since you're so concerned about it we pointed out going to Mass on Sunday isn't really what that Comandment was about. I'm sorry if you felt attacked but looking back over the thread I really can't see why.
tulc(doesn't like to give offense)

 

[S Walch]

And oh, to answer your question:

Yes, I do keep the Sabbath set-apart, and I do rest on it.

Now the question is, do you?

From your posts, the answer seems to be no, you don't actually keep the 4th commandment at all.

I'll say it again, the Sabbath doesn't = Sunday/the Lords Day.

Edit: Also, SDA's also keep the 4th commandment. So do Messianic Jews.

 

[dave90]

You know what I think? I think you don't have a clue . . . .

If we Are All Born Ignorant, then why do you remain?

please continue to witness to us, catholics put our beliefs down the way only you know how, please....please.

 

[KJVisTruth]

Bella, praying for you!

 

[CaliforniaJosiah]

As long as I know the truth and I attend the Holy Mass as Jesus told me to do I have peace in my heart..

Okay...


Then the point of this thread still excapes me.



Pax, my good friend.


- Josiah

 

[GratiaCorpusChristi]

Sabbath DOES NOT = Sunday!!

The Sabbath is Saturday. That is the day commanded to be set apart!

Fourth commandment DOES NOT APPLY, Bella.

And do I follow it for Saturday? Yes. I hold a shabbat service on Friday dusk with the Messianic Jews on campus and abstain from work until Saturday dusk.

DO YOU?

 

[Rion]

I think this is basically a snub at Protestants for asking questions regarding Catholics. I hope it's not...

If it isn't, then yes, we do.

 

[PETE_]

I find the statement about protestants quite humorous. One of the few things we agree on is holding weekly services and that has somehow become an arguement with you in this thread. The simple answer is that we believe in the ten commandments.

 

[bella1955]

I find the statement about protestants quite humorous. One of the few things we agree on is holding weekly services and that has somehow become an arguement with you in this thread. The simple answer is that we believe in the ten commandments.

But that wasn't my question. My question was do you keep the Sabbath holy? Do you attend church as Jesus instructed by His Commandments? If it was so "simple" as you say, there wouldn't be multiple pages.

 

[PETE_]

But that wasn't my question. My question was do you keep the Sabbath holy? Do you attend church as Jesus instructed by His Commandments? If it was so "simple" as you say, there wouldn't be multiple pages.

Do you keep God's comandment of keeping the Sabbath Holy by attending church EVERY Sunday??

How do deal with passages such as this?

Matt 12:10-12
10 And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
11 And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
12 How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
KJV

Luke 6:2-5
2 And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?
3 And Jesus answering them said, Have ye not read so much as this, what David did, when himself was an hungred, and they which were with him;
4 How he went into the house of God, and did take and eat the shewbread, and gave also to them that were with him; which it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?
5 And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
KJV

Luke 13:14-16
14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
15 The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
KJV

John 9:16
16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
KJV


Even Christ was accused of not keeping the Sabbath holy.

 

[SnowLover]

I just searched the entire Douay-Rheims (official Catholic bible) to make sure. I looked up every instance of church in it. Nowhere does it say go to church on sunday. It says to keep the sabbath holy like all the bible versions do.

Where are you getting this from bella? that's pretty much what we need to know. What passages?
Not trying to get on your case. I support your stance that a going to church should be an intregral part of every christians life.

I believe going to church on sunday is a good thing not a bad thing. Its just not a required thing.

 

[JosephSmith]

bella1955 please explain this to me this one.
catholic version of the 10 commandments.
1. I am the Lord, your God. You shall have no other gods besides Me.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife.
10. You shall not covet anything that belongs to your neighbor.

The actually 10 commandments.
EXODUS 20
2. "I am the Lord your God. who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of th house of bondage.
3. "You shall have no other gods before Me."
4 "you shall not make for your selfs any carved image-any likeness of anything that is in heaven above ,or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For i the lord your God, Am a jealous God, Visiting the iniquity of the father upon the childern to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
6 but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep my commandments.
7 "You shall not tke the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain."
8 "remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy".
9 "Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work, ect
11 sabbath still
12 Honor your father and mother ect
13 You shall not commit adultry.
14 You shall not steal.
15 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
16 You shall not covet ect ect ect

 

[ChristDiver]

But that wasn't my question. My question was do you keep the Sabbath holy? Do you attend church as Jesus instructed by His Commandments? If it was so "simple" as you say, there wouldn't be multiple pages.

The Holy day is Saturday the Sabbath Day not Sunday which has been changed by the uninformative & misleading churches nowadays.

Sabbath

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This Source



In the Bible, the Sabbath is a weekly religious day of rest as ordained by one of the Ten Commandments: the third by Eastern, Roman Catholic and Lutheran numbering, the fourth by other Protestants. The Hebrew word ("šhabbat", שַׁבָּת, Strong's H7676) means "the [day] of rest (or ceasing)", as it entails a ceasing or resting from labor. The institution of the Old Testament Sabbath, a "perpetual covenant ... [for] the people of Israel" (-NRSV), was in respect for the day during which God rested after having completed the Creation in six days: , , .
Originally denoting Saturday, the seventh day of the week, or, more precisely, the time period from Friday sunset to Saturday nightfall, the term "sabbath" can now mean one of several things, depending on the context and the speaker:

• Saturday, as originally, in reference to Jewish or historical observance;
• Saturday, the day that Jesus and his disciples observed;
• Saturday, as above, as a day of observance for some Christian groups;
• Saturday evening and Sunday, as the day of observance for Roman Catholics and other Christian groups;

Exodus 20:10
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:

Exodus 31:16
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Mark 2:27
And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days

Peace be with You !!!

Gerry

 

[amishparadise]

If it was so "simple" as you say, there wouldn't be multiple pages.

Sure, there would, because people love to hear themselves spout opinion. I'm no exception; and it seems like you enjoy a robust amount of discussion, too.

To conflate church attendance with the keeping holy of the Sabbath may not be totally apt- while church attendance is vital to worship and fellowship, there are, as has been elegantly stated earlier in this thread, many ways to devote a Sunday to the restful worship of God.

I think, in general, this is usually best done by church attendance. I don't, however, agree with the Catholic Church's assignment of mortal sin status to the missing of even one Mass. This, I think, is legalism. An RCIA student like myself should probably not feel that way, but, I'd be dishonest not to admit as much...

 

[CaliforniaJosiah]

Do you attend church as Jesus instructed by His Commandments?

I'm still waiting for the verses where Jesus said we must attend Mass each Sunday...

 

[tulc]

But that wasn't my question. My question was do you keep the Sabbath holy?

Yes.

Do you attend church as Jesus instructed by His Commandments?

...you haven't shown that He did command it.

If it was so "simple" as you say, there wouldn't be multiple pages.

Well we're still trying to understand what you mean when you say "keep the Sabbath holy" Since in the 10 Commandments the Sabbath is Saturday, and you want us to go to mass on Sunday instead. Now you may think we're straining at gnats but we're just trying to explain what you're asking isn't quite jibbing.
tulc(still plugging away here)

 

[MikeMcK]

I was wondering if Protestants believed in the Ten Commandments, especially "KEEP THE SABBATH HOLY"

Yes, they do. Baptists do, too.

For more on this, check out wotmradio.com. They talk quite a bit about the Ten Commandments.

...Do you keep God's comandment of keeping the Sabbath Holy by attending church EVERY Sunday??

No. First of all, the Bible tells us that the Sabbath was only a shadow of the coming Christ. Now that Christ has come, it tells us, He is our Sabbath, our rest.

Second, I think you're a day late. Under the Old Covenant, Saturday was the Sabbath, not Sunday. So, even if we went to church every Sunday without fail, we still wouldn't necessarily be honoring the Sabbath.

 

[£amb]

I was wondering if Protestants believed in the Ten Commandments, especially "KEEP THE SABBATH HOLY". On every answer in the thread pertaining to going to church as is God's Commandment, every one was Protestant and believed in NOT going to church on the Sabbath. What's up with that? You cannot make your own rules like one post read "as long as Jesus is in your heart"...etc...that is not so. Seems only the Catholic posts take the Mass and church seriously. So my question to non-Catholics would be, either a yes or no answer. Do you keep God's comandment of keeping the Sabbath Holy by attending church EVERY Sunday??

I caught this thread alittle late. I was a poster on that thread, and I never made a remark about it being okay with not going to church. I don't think it was quite fair to lump everybody up and say we all had the same response towards that OP. Here was my response to that thread again:

I attend my Sunday School class and do enjoy being there. That's where I receive my encouragement. I'm with people who also want to learn God's word, to encourage each other, and to pray for one another.

We got to remember that our churches are not full of perfected people, but sinners. I'm not sure what you have found discouraging, but our focus should be serving God and serving others. I know I'm guilty of having a "receive as much as I can" attitude, and not offering to encourage or help another person because I don't want to get involved with their problems/concerns.


We also got to remember that we aren't there to just receive encouragement, but to give it as well. Is this an issue that you have expressed to your parents?






I take the Sabbath very seriously. I do attend church and would suggest for every believer to be involved within their church. There are some people who aren't able to such as my mom. She is still recovering from radiation treatments, and is unable to sit up for long periods of time because of her feeling unwell. I'm not making this post to argue, but just wanted to make it clear that not all protestants such as myself made the same answer that was claimed.

God Bless!

 

[mysterychristian]

Is this whole website run by Catholics?