Thank you for your interest Jorge. Sometimes I read between the lines and in your post to me I am reading that you assume I am a lost soul.
Brother, happy Sabbath! I would like to show you our prophetess' inspiration above the traditions of our church, but you dismiss the Sabbath with the rest of the ten commandments as unimportant for Christians. This prevents you from seeing how God used our prophet to help us understand more about the Sabbath. What I can say is that “since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold,” Jesus will spit you out of His mouth! You will not go to heaven with Jesus when He returns, do not think that because you are not completely Evil, He will have to accept you. The Devil is better than you at looking for ways to twist God’s arm, but he will not succeed. However, I do not assume that you are lost, the Holy Spirit helps you, but you do not understand how He helps you. The Holy Spirit works with the Scriptures when you do not distort His message in the Scriptures, like many other Christians who get carried away by “the error of the lawless” and fall from the secure place of putting the law in their hearts and choose to drop the law in their hearts distorting the Scriptures to their own “destruction”.
“The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel after that time,” declares the Lord. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.” (Jeremiah 31:31-34 NIV)
He says nothing about eliminating the law that reveals our sin He wrote with His own finger, how it comes to us is different, no one will have to teach it because everyone will know Him. The bishops of Rome no longer teach us from a language to which they only have access, today everyone has a Bible and can read the ten commandments in their own language for the Holy Spirit to remind them of the sins they need Jesus to help them with as our High Priest in the daily of the heavenly temple to give us another chance, and another till we are like Jesus to stand with Jesus.
This time I am one because I wrote that there is nothing in the ten commandments about love.
A clear distortion of the Scriptures that according to Peter you do to your own “destruction”.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16b NIV)
God is love and He wrote with His own finger the ten commandments. I admit that Jesus himself had more to say than the minimal love demanded in the ten commandments, but Jesus does not want less than the ten commandments He wrote with His own finger.
Love is the greatest command and found in the book of the law in Deuteronomy and Leviticus. You take offence at that statement, but cannot prove otherwise.
You think you know what love is, when it is God alone who is qualified to define what love is. I have provided Scriptural evidence that shows that the ten commandments are God’s minimalist definition of love; you are just not listening.
In other posts I quote 2Cor3:6-11 and you respond with Peters thoughts.
I have given you the correct view of Paul’s message in harmony with the rest of the Scriptures. You refuse to see my reading of it and prefer your own interpretation in contradiction to the rest of the Scriptures.
I have to assume that the Holy Spirit has not helped you to discern those verses or you are in complete denial. Yet the verses are completely in harmony with Jesus words in Matt 5:17 where Jesus says in His own words that He came to fulfill the Law and the prophets.
You think Jesus is in harmony with your view by distorting what the word “fulfill” means. It does not mean the removal of the law when fulfilled, it does mean it remains when fulfilled.
Fulfill means to bring to an end and that is exactly what He did on the Cross.
You realize that you distort Paul’s words to contradict Jesus in this below passage and you deal with it by distorting the meaning of the word “fulfill” in Jesus message.
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:17-20 NIV)
The context itself shows that Jesus is not removing the commandments because heaven and earth have not disappeared and what Jesus is doing is obeying the commandments by dying for our sins as our creator, ultimately responsible for our actions even though He is without sin. In modern terms, if I “fulfill” the transit laws, I get a lower price on my insurance premium, but it does not end the ten commandments for others whose disobedience will lead to higher insurance premiums for them. We can focus your distortion of Jesus’ message above on a word: “fulfill”. Below is the same Greek word translated above as “fulfill”, used in a context where Paul clearly does not end the word of God, by John is the last book in our Bibles written. Jesus' message is clear, it is your interpretation of Paul that is wrong, just as Peter "forewarned" us about “the error of the lawless”, who set aside God's minimalist definition of love to boast of their own definition when the ten commandments clearly stay till heaven and earth disappears and show you stay a slave to sin when the Holy Spirit gives power to fulfill the least ten commandments and more.
of which I became a minister according to the stewardship from God which was given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God, (Colossians 1:25 NKJ)
If I “fulfill” all transit laws, does that mean that others do not have to obey the transit laws? A clear distortion in your mind of the use of that word. It does mean that my insurance will be lower than those who do not obey the laws and get ticketed for not obeying the law.
The old Law went down and was replaced with the Royal law of Love and ratified by His own blood. I know this upsets your apple cart, but that is God's plan. Where there is a change in the priesthood there is also a change in the Law. Heb7:12
The only difference with the new covenant is that the Holy Spirit helps by putting the law in our hearts instead of us taking on that responsibility of keeping the law in our hearts.
Does that mean that you recognize that there is a love for the world that gains you nothing?
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them. (1 John 2:15 NIV)
Is this the love you boast about? A love defined by the world, that will gain you nothing, instead of God’s definition?
What does all of your pasting of scripture have to do with nothing about love in the ten commandments?
I have already posted that the ten commandments are God’s minimalist definition of love. Confessed by an expert in the law and confirmed by Jesus.
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.” (Luke 10:25-28 NIV)
This expert in the law summarized the ten commandments as love for God and neighbor and Jesus confirmed his understanding of the law, you however want a love that does not obey the ten commandments.
Now that is hard to understand. Paul's writings are a snap when placed with yours.
It follows from my reading of Peter. How would you explain how you distort the Scriptures to your own “destruction”? There is more to learn about the Sabbath when we are not distracted by “the error of the lawless,” distorting Paul’s message, when he clearly expects us to obey the law more now than before.
I did get that He placed the Law in our hearts. What law or laws are supposed to be there?
Certainly not your own definition of love, shown deficient by God’s true definition of love.
If the ritual Sabbath law is there then why is it so hard to get converts. Why are they not breaking the doors of your churches down? The SDA church spends millions and more millions trying to harvest souls into their churches. Very few are persuaded to join and even when they do many of them go out the back door. So much for the Sabbath being on our hearts.
Unfortunately, expected, the closer you are to the Scriptures, the narrower the way:
“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. (Matthew 7:13-14 NIV)
Your lawless interpretation of love is a broad road that leads to destruction.
Is that supposed to be a nice way of telling me I am "unstable"? I quote Paul telling us that the ten commandments were temporary so I am "unstable"?
The ten commandments are the least show of love God demands, He certainly has demanded more than the ten commandments with the Help of the Holy Spirit, but He does not want less than the ten commandments. Paul tells us the law is good, but you want to disobey it and that is a broad road that leads to destruction. Thanks to Jesus as our High Priest and the constant help of the Holy Spirit putting the law in my heart, I can obey these ten commandments and more. That is a narrow road that leads to life, and only a few find it. Jesus has provided a way for us to obey the law with the Help of the Holy Spirit placing the law in our hearts and not by eliminating the law from our hearts as you teach to your own “destruction”.
I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death. For sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, deceived me, and through the commandment put me to death. So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful. We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. (Romans 7:10-16 NIV)
United in our hope of the soon return of Jesus, Jorge