The fact of the matter is that the Bible has never disenfranchised the Sabbath or separated its significance from the final day of the week or the reasons for which it begins at sun down and culminates on Saturday at sundown. If you believe the biblical account of creation, the Sabbath was made for man (Mark 2:27) not just Jews or world religionists. Adam didn’t have a clue who Abraham was. God created a world and inhabited it with one people. The sacrificial system the Israelites had imposed on them because they couldn't control their lifestyle used as highlights and markers, specific Sabbaths. No logical thinker would conclude that the Sabbath relationship to creation and its significance to helping mankind remember and celebrate it was in any way diluted or changed at that systems conclusion. We know Jesus wandered around for a while after He rose (I’ve not been with my Father yet), and during that time continued to keep the seventh day. I may say what I will about the nature of Him but I strive for clarity and the Bible suggests no change in day but a very important change from the strict legalistic manner which temple elites carried out their tyrannical policing of its observance. Was He confused about the significance of His “role” in the modern Christian belief of a "big shift"? Two or three hundred years later, Christians were starting to use Sunday because, well, all the pagans were, why not? Just like the Jews of old, hey Moses? This country, my father used to say is a Christian nation. I think not dad, just a bunch of pagans.
To tell you the truth, I don’t care if you keep the Sabbath on Tuesday; it’s your call. Get your family together and love each other. Its time to stop and rest from the rat race. I choose these days to spend it on the soccer fields with my grand kids and when we can in Sabbath School and Church. My friends down at "Second and Robinson" will forgive my belief that the specific day matters not but that the down fall of this country is centered on the unholy and unnatural and that is evidenced by the attack on marriage and the blurring of lines between right and wrong and good and evil. Diminishing the Sabbath to irrelevance does likewise to honor and faithfulness and truthfulness and a more close relationship with the Creator of all things no matter how I believe that occurred (you'll learn that next). Love is the greatest command and you all ought to fall in love with the Sabbath and its connection to nature. B. C.
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About Me
- B.C.
- Oroville, Northern California, United States
- I was born to a liberal, very religous mother and father in 1952. I am now an ultra conservative grandfather of four with some perspective on life. But my conservative beliefs match very closely to my liberal parents, so the family positions have not changed, must have been the world view. My wife and I own and labor on four acres with a "yearround" stream and a pond and a home in the foothills near Lake Oroville in California, USA. Two of our grand children, 13 and15 years old are being raised by us. Another two, 14 and 17 years old don't live with us, thank God. Can you imagine all four gathered together? I can, no thanks! It's has to be a God thing to have the chance to try our hand at these jobs again. I believe a bit differently than most Christians and have two blogs, one dedicated to cultural issues and one to politics. Read the blogs, you'll see.
2 comments:
I agree that the Sabbath was made for all mankind and that there is nothing in the old or new testaments that indicate that Sabbath observance is no longer required. You are also right in saying that the Sabbath was never changed from the seventh day (Friday sunset to Saturday sunset) to Sunday. The Sunday tradition is just that - a tradition of men.
Some today think that the New Testament Church of God began observing Sunday because they think Christ rose on Sunday. But Jesus said He would be in the grave for three days and nights, and the Friday burial-Sunday resurrection tradition does not allow for that sign to be fulfilled. As I point out in my blog, the confusion arises among some people today because they are not aware of the annual sabbath days and do not realize that the "sabbath" just after the burial of Jesus was the first day of unleavened bread, not the weekly Sabbath.
I think that when Jesus taught against the legalistic way the scribes and Pharisees were teaching people to keep the Sabbath, making it a burden by their human traditions, He was not really changing God's law about the Sabbath but correcting the Jews for the traditions they were adding to God's law that made the Sabbath a burden. God never intended the Sabbath to be a burden.
I will apologize in advance to “author” @ PTG Book, for if he has read more of my posts he will know there is a wide difficulty between his beliefs and my own. I do not have time to expand on that this morning. In short, let me just remind all readers, religionists have hijacked and made their claim on God based on interpretation of The Book. I capitalize the appropriate words to give respect to their point of view, which allows us to reason together. The Book is for man, not a religion. The commandments are to be respected on a national/societal as well as personal stage. Anticipating the culmination of any debate or conversation will allow me to forecast that we each arrive at the same ending point on earth and if you plan on an after life, I’d be happy to tag along. I’m just not interested in heaven right now while our world is going to hell and will always be open to work with you to that end. B. C.
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