if you observe Sabbath, Christ will profit you nothing. (2)

[FredVB]

Have you not considered that the early believers broke bread from house to house and that the church met in homes on the first day of the week to do so? I do not see any instance in the New Testament where the church met in a synagogue to break bread, do you?

Wrong.

Acts of the Apostles 2:46-47
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their food with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

It is not said that from the beginning believers met to break bread simply on the first day of the week, they met daily, and there in Jerusalem it was with going to the temple (which had not only believers going there), even with thousands among their assembly, afterward meeting in their houses, that is why there was synagogue attendance for believers in other places, later on, and so synagogues were mentioned often in that history, such as mention of that expectation in the Acts of the Apostles 15:20-21. Why else would it be mentioned there when the subject of that whole text there is concern for what there is for them that the gentile believers are to do? And who observes what requirements are in that letter? I don't go contrary to it, but who else is there?

 

[bbbbbbb]

Wrong.

Acts of the Apostles 2:46-47
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their food with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

It is not said that from the beginning believers met to break bread simply on the first day of the week, they met daily, and there in Jerusalem it was with going to the temple (which had not only believers going there), even with thousands among their assembly, afterward meeting in their houses, that is why there was synagogue attendance for believers in other places, later on, and so synagogues were mentioned often in that history, such as mention of that expectation in the Acts of the Apostles 15:20-21. Why else would it be mentioned there when the subject of that whole text there is concern for what there is for them that the gentile believers are to do? And who observes what requirements are in that letter? I don't go contrary to it, but who else is there?

There seems to be a difference in understanding concerning the meaning of "synagogue". If you mean synagogue as a building (which is what it is) then you are on very shaky ground as there are no remains of buildings where Christians met prior to the fourth century. If you believe that Christians simply took over existing Jewish synagogues and Christianized them, then you are on even shakier ground as there is strong evidence against that notion. On the other hand, if you conflate synagogue with ekklesia, as a congregation of individuals, then an argument might be made. However, it comes with the price of confusing a building with a congregation. This is not an uncommon problem as our culture commonly conflates the building where Christians meet with the church, so that buildings are called churches when, in fact, they are nothing more than buildings.

 

[Truthfrees]

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[bugkiller]

Wrong.

Acts of the Apostles 2:46-47
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their food with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

It is not said that from the beginning believers met to break bread simply on the first day of the week, they met daily, and there in Jerusalem it was with going to the temple (which had not only believers going there), even with thousands among their assembly, afterward meeting in their houses, that is why there was synagogue attendance for believers in other places, later on, and so synagogues were mentioned often in that history, such as mention of that expectation in the Acts of the Apostles 15:20-21. Why else would it be mentioned there when the subject of that whole text there is concern for what there is for them that the gentile believers are to do? And who observes what requirements are in that letter? I don't go contrary to it, but who else is there?

Do you attend the synagogue? Why not? you insist the early church believers did?

bugkiller

 

[bugkiller]

You are wrong again bbbbb (not man/woman enough to even give us a name), the point that was made was that the Gentiles "would learn" the law by attending the synagogues, not that "all gentiles" already knew the law.

Also, your claim that gentiles didn't attend the synagogues is not biblical.

Act 18:4
And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.

I'm hoping that you're intelligent enough to know that ancient koine Greek did not have punctuation, so the comma in this verse means nothing. This verse clearly says that Paul persuaded Jews and Greeks in the synagogues "every" SABBATH!


Go on believing what you want but your whole belief system is built upon lies.

The Sabbath was made for all of mankind, just as Jesus said. The end of the Mt. Sinai covenant did not end God's law nor his sabbath.

You all have to take scriptures out of context (Rom. 14, Col. 2:16,17, Acts 20:7, 1 Cor. 16:2) to wrest your teachings. You don't understand Paul, as Peter said would happen and you wrest his words to your own destruction.

2Pe 3:16
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.


Please consider Peter's description of the kind of people who twist/wrest Paul's words.

Show us where attendance of the synagogue was required. A historical statement was made about the past with no requirement of the future.

bugkiller

 

[Rick Otto]

You are wrong again bbbbb (not man/woman enough to even give us a name),.

kljcmc is a name?
C'mon, let's chill a bit.