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I would say that you don't have anything in common with those who follow the faith because you reject Paul's authority.
But you are saying we must obey those 'weird laws' and 613 of them? and even that parts of the new testament are completely wrong...
The Word of God is the Most High God (John 1:1). He is the literal living, breathing Word of the Most High God. He was the One in communication with the prophets - especially when they see God in the Old Testament, or He talks directly to them.
Anything that begins with, "And the LORD God Said/Commanded/etc." is LAW - just like whatever your father tells you is something he expects you to follow and obey, not find a loophole.
Kill and eat the animals representing the gentiles. Gentiles represented "clean" animals as well as "unclean" animals. The Hebrews represented sheep in the animal parable. Peter told you exactly what his vision meant in the verses I posted.
God said we can eat certain meat; man may say something different. Who are you going to trust?
Paul's authority does not trump the Most High God's authority and Word - who is the Redeemer or the Literal Living Word of God.
Paul has no authority compared to them; their Word is primary. If you want to follow Paul before the Most High God, then that is your prerogative. But, if Paul contradicts the Most High God, then he is a liar.
What do you obey? GOD said all of this:
- GOD told Noah that he could eat anything that moved.
- GOD told Israel that they could only eat certain foods
- Paul said that we can eat anything (all foods are clean)
I trust God and Jesus too and what you are saying feels completely weird to me. I have had several spiritual experiences with him and that confirms me (without trying to sound like i am an authority or anything like that) that i am at least somewhere in the correct path.
At least you agree that the door to heaven is Jesus not the law correct?
God told Noah to eat anything that moved because He knew Noah had the wherewithal to understand that meant clean food that moved. In other words, Noah had the sense not to eat a cockroach, or vulture because he knew the Word of God enough to know what the Most High God meant.
Paul has no authority over the Most High God. At all. Paul cannot save you from Hell.
I already showed you where Paul contradicts the law. If you reject Paul's authority, then you are not a follower of the Christian faith.
That's not the way it works. GOD said what he said. You just can't make up stuff to make the word say what you want it to.
I am not a follower of your denomination, perhaps. I thought it was requisite that one does NOT put man before God. Trusting Paul's authority over the Most High God, or the Word of God is not what I am doing. And, as I said, I am fine with whatever classification one wants to identify me with.
Paul was GOD's apostle. If you do not follow his words, then you are not following the Christian faith.
Then, I am going to stop talking about it, because it is up to you to ascertain the truth and I don't want to be a stumbling block. There is only one truth, and while it isn't elusive, there is a lot of misinformation and distractions to veil the brightness of it. I am still all ears if you find a place where the Most High God allows us to break His commandments, or explicitly shows some of us are under different conditions for obedience.
Yes. However, the two are extremely closely related - two sides of the same coin. Faith (in the Redeemer) without works (obedience; outward show of fruits) is dead.
But you keep all the law? and if you don't you think Jesus is accusing you of infidelity?
1. "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;" (Ephesians 2:15 KJV).
2. Sabbath basically means "rest" in Exodus 16:23, which says, "To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD". Jesus said of himself, "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." (Matthew 18:28-30).
3. I got a better one for you, the first day of rest ever commanded to anyone in the Bible was on the first day of the week, "And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you." (Exodus 12:16).
see above4. See above. "an HOLY convocation"
5. See above.
6. He didn't, because he had to fulfill the law of Moses in order to "abolish" it on the cross (see #1).
7. "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils." (Mark 16:9). "And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight." (Acts 20:7). "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. 2 Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come." (1 Corinthians 16:1-2). The apostle Paul preached a sermon to a congregation of believers on the "first day of the week" and told the saints in Corinth to have the "collection" "upon the first day of the week". The only possible reason for this day being chosen for those things, is because their Lord and Saviour was risen on "the first day of the week". Paul also said, "Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me." (1 Corinthians 4:16). Since Paul preached to a local church (congregation) and taught that the collection ought to be done on the first day of the week, we ought to follow him in gathering with the saints to hear preaching and offering collection on the first day of the week.
8. See #3.
9. None did. They didn't even keep the seventh day as a sabbath anywhere in the New Testament.
10. None. In fact, they said the sabbath wasn't for today, but for later on (i.e. in the Millennial Kingdom) in Colossians 2:16-17, "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: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ."
11. Nowhere. Neither is any Christian told to rest on the seventh day of the week.
12. See #10.
13. Um, this is the exact same question as #1, which I answered.
14. See #10.
15. It never was. Neither was the seventh day ever called "the Lord's day" in the Bible. The Lord's day (Rev. 1:10) is the day of the Lord, just as Bob's car is the car of Bob. It has absolutely nothing to do with any 24-hour sabbath day.
16. See #15.
17. See #10.
18. See #6.
19. See #10.
20. Well, the seventh day sabbath is Jewish. The Bible may not have the exact title, you're looking for, but it comes close enough when it says, "Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed." (Exodus 31:16-17).
21. None, neither is there of the seventh day in the New Testament.
22. See #10.
23. See #10.
24. This is the exact question as #22. See #10.
25. See #10.
26. See #10.
27. See #10.
Also, we don't need to keep the sabbath to fulfill the law of God. We can fulfill the whole law by loving our neighbor as ourselves, "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 9 For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." (Romans 13:8-10).There is an "other commandment" not listed by Paul (keep the sabbath), and he said that it is comprehended in loving your neighbor as yourself.
I don't need to KEEP the sabbath day to fulfill the law, love is the fulfilling of the law.
But you keep all the law? and if you don't you think Jesus is accusing you of infidelity?
Again, Psalm 95:11 has nothing to do with a weekly sabbath for it refers to rest for Israel in the land of Canaan. Also, Genesis 2:2 refers to GOD's eternal rest. So Hebrews 4:4 has nothing to do with the weekly sabbath, but is referring to GOD's eternal rest (which the land of Canaan was a type and shadow).
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