Hello all,
This thread is for friendly discussion only. So please be nice here.
The challenge I am putting up here is for anyone to show even one scripture that says God's 4th Commandment of the 10 commandments (Exodus 20:8-11) which was spoken and written by God himself to his people, has been abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a Holy day.
Can anyone please show me where in all the bible does is say (SOLA SCRIPTURA; Scripture only please)...
1. That God's 4th commandments 7th day Sabbath has been abolished?
2. That Jesus is a Sabbath?
3. The Sabbath (seventh day) was ever changed from the seventh to the first day of the week?
4. Where we are told to keep the first day of the week holy?
5. Where the first day of the week (Sunday) is ever called a holy day?
6. That says that Jesus ever kept the first day (Sunday)?
7. That tells us to keep the first day in honour of the resurrection of Christ?
8. Where the first day is ever given any sacred name?
9. That affirms that any of the apostles ever kept the first day as the Sabbath?
10. From any apostolic writings that authorizes Sunday observance as the Sabbath of God?
11. Where we are told not to work on the first day of the week?
12. That says the seventh day is no longer God's Sabbath day?
13. That says the seventh day Sabbath is ABOLISHED?
14. Where the apostles ever taught any convert to keep the first day of the week as a Sabbath?
15. Where the first day was ever appointed to be kept as the Lord's Day?
16. Where the first day of the week is ever called the Lord's Day?
17. That says that the first day of the week was ever sanctified and hallowed as a day of rest?
18. That says that the Father or the Son (Jesus) rested on the first day of the week?
19. That says that Jesus, Paul or any other of the apostles taught anyone to observe the first day of the week as the Sabbath?
20. That calls the seventh day the “Jewish Sabbath” or one text that calls Sunday the “Christian Sabbath”?
21. Telling man to keep the first day of the week holy or to worship or rest on the first day of the week?
22. Authorizing anyone to set aside God's Sabbath and observe any other day?
23. Showing any of the apostles keeping the first day of the week as the Sabbath?
24. Authorizing someone to set aside the fourth Commandment and observe any other day of the week?
25. Where any apostle taught us to keep the first day of the week as the Sabbath?
26. Declaring that the seventh day is no longer the Eternal Sabbath day?
27. Where Sunday is now appointed to be kept as the New Testament Sabbath or holy day?
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Something to think about here because we are all accountable to God come judgment day where we will all be judged by the Word of God (John 12:47-48).
God's Word makes it very clear that if we follow the teachings of men over the Word of God we are not following God...
MATTHEW 15:3-9 [3],
[3], But he answered and said unto them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
[4], For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.
[5], But you say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift devoted to God, whatsoever you might have received from me;
[6], And honors not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God void by your tradition.
[7], You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
[8], These people draw near unto me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
[9], But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
If we are KNOWINGLY breaking ANY of God's commandments we are not worshipping God.
Look forward to your thoughts...
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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).
4. 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.