I’ve got a question. You got an answer?
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Loading ...i received an email containing this question this week, which i promptly answered. i’ll post the question today and my answer tomorrow. more important than my answer is: how would you reply if you received a similar email? what would your response be?
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answer tomorrow christian principles christian sources consensus contradict displaced email Evotational internet projects i can remember i desire new testament old testament predicament promptly reply sabbath taint ten commandments testament laws Filed under Evotational |The question I possess is a notably important one as it directly affects my understanding of the Ten Commandments.
Numerous “Christian” sources on the internet (which I understand are not always credible and often taint Christian principles) contend that Sabbath falls on Saturday, not Sunday. If this proves true, then I have been in sharp violation of God’s law for as far back as I can remember. Though this has not been a “willing” choice, it is also not a choice I desire to make further if it is, in fact, an unbiblical one. In addition, I understand Jesus displaced all of the Old Testament Laws with two, and for this reason, many sources assert that upholding Sabbath is not necessitated by the New Testament. Regardless, the common consensus on the internet projects a Saturday (not Sunday) Sabbath. I do not want to contradict God’s Law, so could you give me some direction with this?
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That is correct - Sabbath is on Saturday, the 7th day of the week.
However the question really extends out to what day do we gather together for corporate worship and teaching.
If I recall correctly, the New Testament Christian Jews would go to Jewish synagogue on the Sabbath, and at first met daily from house to house for fellowship. The first day of the week (Sunday) began to be celebrated as the day Christ rose from the dead and was called the Lord’s Day.
The Gentile Christians were not welcome in the Jewish synagogues, so their primary day of corporate worship became Sunday. This was later an issue that arose between strict law-following Jewish Christians and the Gentile Christians, among other issues such as circumcision and what meat they could eat.
The apostles ruled on these issues. As Paul says in Colossians 2:16 -
“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.”
My take on this is that we now have a restored fellowship with God. A lot of the OT Laws that were designed to point man to God are no longer relevant because we now have God inside of us. A system built for external compliance to God has given way to the internal compliance we are now called to.