Well, the word sabbath was never once mentioned in that chapter, and even in the entire book of Romans. It wasn't talking about a sabbath day, and if you research the history of it, there was an argument amongst the early believers about which days of the week were best for fasting. Pauls point is, it doesn't matter. Which ever day you fast on, you're doing it to the Father, or not to the Father. Think what you will, but that's the context. Different variations of eating were written 10 times around the verse. It's not just going to talk about eating and not eating, jump to talking about the sabbath randomly, not even mentioning sabbath, and then jump right in the next verse talking about eating and not eating again, come on now, you've got to think here.
I'm not sure how I lost you. I separated everything with bold font. Re-read it. New moons are how the months are initiated in the hebraic calendar. Why would that apply to a gentile unless they too were observing the new moons for determining their months, as opposed to the sun like every gentile they were surrounded by?
Holy days are made by God, not man - the feast days.
Gentiles believe they can eat all meat, why would they judge those Paul is writing to?
Gentiles highly esteemed alcohol in literally all of their religious celebrations, and in the day to day life, so why would they judge those Paul is writing to? Unless they refrained from getting drunk, or drinking altogether.
The concept of resting a day of the week was foreign to gentiles until Constantine initiated the 1st day sabbath, and most gentiles despised the jews, and felt they were lazy for taking a weekly sabbath, and the yearly sabbaths for the feast days. I'm not sure how I lost you here. It's the history of the time.
My point is, the things Paul wrote about in that verse, literally have nothing to do with gentiles. It's all things from the Torah. Yet, he wrote it to gentiles. Why? Because they were to observe Torah, just as we are today.
okay cool, but where does it say moral law? All of it is morally inspired. To have the morals of God. The law is perfect. The law is
not a curse.
Breaking the law,
brings a curse.
Did you read the rest of Hebrews 7?
Hebrews 7:
12
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.
Why is there of necessity a change of the law? Because, according to the law, ONLY the sons of Aaron, from the tribe of Levi could be priests. And as the next verse shows:
13
For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar.
14
For it is evident that
our Lord sprang out of Juda;
of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood.
Then, later in Romans 7, Paul shows us:
Romans 7:20-28
20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
21 (For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec
22 By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.
28 For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
All Romans 7 talks about is how the priesthood changed. It's why we no longer need to sacrifice, why there aren't such a thing as priests anymore on earth, and that's it. It's why the veil tore when He died. Because, He made it so we can all approach God, our Priest, has cleansed us forever by His death. That Priest is Jesus. This has been in effect since the law was given, as he points out in the last verse. Meaning, that even now, the law still stands, because Jesus is judging according to the law. How do you think we will be judged if the law is done away with? It makes no sense...
Can you link the scriptures? Prove that God's Law is done away with. And explain these examples where the apostles are doing in direct contradiction to what you're saying.
Acts 18:21 - But bade them farewell, saying,
I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.
He was with gentiles here, yet he still observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread
Acts 20:6 -
6And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.
Which means, he also celebrated Passover, which was the feast he was referring to in Acts 18.
Acts 21:27 - And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him.
(He kept a nazarite vow in Acts 21:27, which includes sacrificing an animal for purification. It's a way to dedicate yourself completely to God. Jews didn't think he was keeping Torah, and that he was teaching gentiles to disregard Torah, and in Acts 21:24, we find out that him teaching gentiles against Torah is not true. That he was in fact keeping Torah, and teaching it, and that the Jews simply were hearing lies about him)
There's also where Paul wrote to Gentiles in 2 Timothy chapter 3
2 Timothy 3:16-17 -
16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
All scripture. Think about this... the new testament hadn't even been written yet. All they had was the Tanakh (the old testament).
He circumcised Timothy. And even gave us instructions on how to celebrate unleavened bread in 1st corinthians. "Not with the old leaven of malice, etc." basically redefining the intent of the weightier intentions of the law. How through keeping it we're no better than those that don't, etc, etc.
