An established fact among whom specifically? The Jews! Jesus and his twelve disciples were Jews. Paul was a Pharisee...also a Jew. The Sabbath was established as a tradition ONLY for Jews! The argument among Jewish Christian leadership wasn't *just* about circumcision...it was about whether newly converted Gentiles needed to become Jews and observe all the Jewish practices and customs in order to be Christians, and the answer to that turned out to be a huge NO.
The only things Gentiles were asked to do, and not because God commanded it, but only to preserve unity in the church between Jews and Gentiles, were to abstain from sexual immorality, and to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled.
That's it. Nothing else was required of Gentiles. No circumcision, no special diet laws, no Jewish feast days, and no sabbath.
We aren't talking about the sabbath, but about worshiping God and the first day of the week is the day most Christians decided to worship, not because of any obligation whatsoever to observe a sabbath, but to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
It is not about the sabbath.
It is not about the sabbath.
It is not about the sabbath.
It was never about the sabbath.
Most Christians do not observe a sabbath because we are not required to observe a ritual sabbath day under the new covenant, and if we are non-Jewish Christians, we were *never* required to observe a ritual sabbath day every week.
Sunday worship is about the resurrection.
Sunday worship is about the resurrection.
Sunday worship is about the resurrection.
Although SDA has decided on their own interpretation for why God rejected Cain's sacrifice, we don't really know the reason. It's guesswork because we don't have enough information available to know God's motives and so all we know is that he rejected it.
Thank you, finally someone admits there is no verse commanding Adam and Eve to keep the sabbath. (Now if only certain other people would admit there is no verse in the NT commanding Gentiles to keep a sabbath.)
Nowhere, because that's not what Christians are doing. 1st day of the week has nothing whatsoever to do with sabbath. It's about celebrating the day of the Lord's resurrection, commonly called the Lord's Day, because that was the day of his resurrection.
Nowhere, because nobody changed the sabbath. The sabbath is the sabbath, and worshiping God on the first day of the week in celebration of Jesus' resurrection are two different things.
Exactly, because without the Jesus' resurrection, all of those things would be nothing, filthy rags so to speak. Without Jesus, there is no one to proclaim us "not guilty". We could honor our mother and father all day long for 365 days a year and still be condemned because there was no resurrection and no future hope of one.
Because the ritual weekly sabbath observation is a ceremonial law given to the Israelites at Sinai as a visible sign to mark the covenant God made with them, to set them apart from the other nations who were not under that covenant.
Even atheists know murder and coveting to be wrong because it's morally universal. While they do not acknowledge it comes from God, they instinctively know it to be true because the truth of it is absolute. People don't instinctively observe a seventh day sabbath because it doesn't have anything to do with morality. That wasn't its purpose in the covenant.
The Holy Spirit doesn't lead you to keep the other commandments because they are part of the ten commandments. The Holy Spirit leads you to do things like no murder or steal because murder and stealing aren't part of God's inherent nature. God *cannot* murder or steal, so God isn't capable of leading people into doing those things. The ritual sabbath observance was *created* by God for a particular purpose.
Like the ritual weekly sabbath is a sign of the covenant God made with the Israelites at Sinai, circumcision was a sign of the covenant God made directly with Abraham. A different covenant, but still ongoing at the time of the Sinai covenant.
Genesis 17:3-11
3 Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, 4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. 6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. 8 And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding; and I will be their God.” 9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
So who is still under the law that the heavenly ark represents?
Unbelievers.
Believers are not subject to written requirements that were taken away with Christ.
Circumcision is a sign of a different covenant.
What was the ark called? The ark of the *covenant*. Which covenant? The covenant God made specifically with the Israelites at Sinai.
Many Jewish disciples kept sabbath along with all the other Jewish customs and traditions after the resurrection, but Gentile disciples did not. They were never under obligation to any of them.
These were not Gentile *Christians*. He preached in the synagogues to witness to and convert Jews (and Gentile converts to Judaism) to Christianity. (And Gentile pagans would show up too, similar to how crowds would follow Jesus around when they heard he was in town.)
Gentile *Christians* met in each others homes for worship, not in Jewish synagogues.
