isn't it better to just do good?

[SabbathBlessings]

Surely you must see Christ's comments goes beyond sheep stuck in pits. He himself only uses the example as a segue to show how much more valuable people are.

If you are not in Christ through His Spirit by walking in obedience, one will not be much help in saving the lost sheep of Jesus. Obeying the Sabbath commandment is spending time in Christ reading His Word, time in prayer, time in worship on the day God blessed, made holy for God and for us and sanctified. This is the most important part of God’s commandment having holy commune time with our Creator and Savior, being spiritually recharged, but we can spend some of the Sabbath sharing God’s Word which I agree is doing good.

 

[BobRyan]

BobRyan said: ↑
So it is a Day for "doing good"
A day for "holy convocation" Lev 23:3
A day for all mankind to come before God and worship - Is 66:23
A day to set aside all secular interests, ideas, goals - Is 58:13
A day of rest Ex 20:8-11 in memorial of 7 day creation week of Gen 1-2

all of the above.

yet the focus of good seems to fulfill it all. This begs the question why not just do good? and further to that instead of limiting good to one day a week why not just do good every day.

God is the one who wrote those texts. He says it is not right to engage in secular activity on His Sabbath day... not me. He is the one that makes doing so a "sin" - a "bad thing" if done on His Sabbath day.

What He does not say is
1. Every day is a day of holy convocation
2. Every day we must avoid secular activity

-- manna did not fall on Sabbath

your proposal would mean manna would never fall - they would simply starve

unless of course you're doing good, because contary to the exertion involved doing good is lawful on the Sabbath

It is "good" to obey the Word of God instead of being in rebellion against what He says in His word. I hope we can agree on that.

 

[DamianWarS]

BobRyan said: ↑
So it is a Day for "doing good"
A day for "holy convocation" Lev 23:3
A day for all mankind to come before God and worship - Is 66:23
A day to set aside all secular interests, ideas, goals - Is 58:13
A day of rest Ex 20:8-11 in memorial of 7 day creation week of Gen 1-2

all of the above.



God is the one who wrote those texts. He says it is not right to engage in secular activity on His Sabbath day... not me. He is the one that makes doing so a "sin" - a "bad thing" if done on His Sabbath day.

What He does not say is
1. Every day is a day of holy convocation
2. Every day we must avoid secular activity

-- manna did not fall on Sabbath

your proposal would mean manna would never fall - they would simply starve



It is "good" to obey the Word of God instead of being in rebellion against what He says in His word. I hope we can agree on that.

You don't need to copy and paste your post history. I got it the first time. With regards to the new content in your post it is good to obey the Word of God. "Word" being capitalised is in reference to second person of the Trinity, God the Word/God the Son, namely Jesus, the Christ. If you intended God's written word then of course it's good to follow it as well but I would encourage you to not use title case with it as the reference is confusing.

However I feel your final comments are really loaded and are skirting around this revealed focus of doing good on the Sabbath. It feels like you're avoiding a specific definition and would rather a lofty undefined goodness to sort of float around so you can agree but ultimately as long as it fits the letter of the law. This could be argued as in rebellion to Christ's words and a refusal to think beyond the old covenant, limiting Christ's words to the immediate literal examples of whithered hands and sheep in pits.

I would encourage you to look at the deeper meanings of the text and the direction Christ is pointing to rather than only the immediate literal words. Christ reveals to us a Sabbath message, how does that message challenge you because if all you see is law I would say you've missed the point.

 

[BobRyan]

It feels like you're avoiding a specific definition and would rather a lofty undefined goodness to sort of float around so you can agree but ultimately as long as it fits the letter of the law. This could be argued as in rebellion to Christ's words and a refusal to think beyond the old covenant, limiting Christ's words to the immediate literal examples of whithered hands and sheep in pits. .

false accusations are a dime a dozen. I am more interested in Bible facts than mere vitriol.

 

[DamianWarS]

false accusations are a dime a dozen. I am more interested in Bible facts than mere vitriol.

It was an accusation, it was a challenge.