Mark 2:27,28- And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not the man for the sabbath. Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord also of the sabbath.\n\nLuke 23:56-And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments, and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.\nExodus 20:8-Remember the sabbath, to keep it holy.\n\nI have also found out that the sabbath was changed to Sunday as the day of rest by the RomanCatholicChurch. Constantine wanted to convert pagans fast, thus he officially declared the day of rest Sunday. The pagans worshipped on Sunday(day of the sun). Also, this was also how all the saints & virgins became introduced into the Catholic Church. This pleased the pagans, since they accepted Jesus Christ, but they didnt want to get rid of their idols. What do you think of this? Do you have any evidence that the day of rest is Sunday????
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Lets face facts the Jews were here before the Christians and if God told them that Saturday was the day of rest then so be it. But the loony telling us that it should be Friday and the local Father insisting it is Sunday may not be wrong too. \nWhy take chances. \nI've told my wife I will not work of Friday to Sunday to avoid messing with God (and maybe Wednesdays too - cause I feel God would send me a message not to put all nonworking days in one cluster!)
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Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. \nI have learned a great deal from you, and I try to share that knowledge \nwith as many people as I can. \nI do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other specific \nBiblical laws and how to follow them.\n\na) When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a \npleasing odor for the Lord (Lev. 1:9). The problem is my neighbors. \nThey claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?\n\nb) I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in \nExodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price \nfor her?\n\nc) I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her \nperiod of menstrual uncleanness (Lev.15:19-24). The problem is, how do I tell? \nI have tried asking, but most women take offense. If I come into contact with \na woman who is menstruating and she doesn't tell me until afterwards, must I \nkill her immediately or can I just beat her?\n\nd) Lev. 25:44 states that I may indeed possess slaves, both male and female, \nprovided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims\nthat this applies to Mexicans, but not Canadians. Can you clarify? \nWhy can't I own Canadians?\n\ne) I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 \nclearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill \nhim myself? Also, is Sabbath on Saturday as Seventh Day Adventists \n(Christians, like us...or are they?) or is it on Sunday as Baptists and \nsome other faiths agree? I am beset by not knowing who to kill and when \nto kill them...please clarify this for me.\n\nf) A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination\n (Lev. 11:10), it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality (Lev. 18:22). \nI don't agree. I'm also confused about how homosexuality can be an abomination \nwhen Jonathan and David were married in the Bible (1 Samuel 18:1, 3 - 4). \nHere, I'll quote it - "And it came to pass, when he had made an end of \nspeaking unto Saul that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David \nand Jonathan loved him as his own soul. Then Jonathan and David made a \ncovenant, because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan stripped himself\nof the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments, even \nto his sword and to his bow and to his girdle." and also Ruth's relationship \nwith Naomi is suspect, (Ruth 1:16-17) "And Ruth said to Naomi, Entreat me not \nto leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, \nI will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, \nand thy God my God: Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: \nthe Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part three and me.\n" Can you settle this?\n\ng) Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a \ndefect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my \nvision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle room here?\n\nh) Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around \ntheir temples, even though this is expressly forbidden by Lev.19:27 and even \nthough 1st Cor. 11:4-6 says that it is a shame upon a man to have long hair. \nHow should they die?\n\ni) I know from Lev. 11:6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me \nunclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves? Also, since it is \nstrictly forbidden to "eat neither fat nor blood" in Lev. 3:17 & Lev. 19:26, \ndoes that mean that I must be a vegetarian and must I smite those who choose \nto eat meat?\n\nj) My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different \ncrops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two \ndifferent kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse \nand blaspheme a lot. Is i
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They adhere to keeping the true Sabbath Day, sundown Friday till sundown Saturday. I am researching them out, now. I do not disclaim any ones faith ,because to take away someones hope is very bad.
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WE WEREN'T THERE SO WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT DAY IS WORSHIP.  AFTER ALL THEY DECIDED TO LEAVE OUT ALL THOSE OTHER BOOKS FROM DISCIPLES THAT WERE THERE WHY COULDN'T THEY MAKE UP THEIR OWN DAY OF WORSHIP. AS LONG AS YOU BELIEVE AND WORSHIP.
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Heron by the Sea, I still stick to my answer below, but I appreciate your information.\n\nSchneb, I appreciate your kind words,   Bill\n\nTime of his death. \n\nThe death of Jesus Christ took place in the spring, on the Passover Day, Nisan (or Abib) 14, according to the Jewish calendar. (Mt 26:2; Joh 13:1-3; Ex 12:1-6; 13:4) That year the Passover occurred on the sixth day of the week (counted by the Jews as from sundown on Thursday to sundown on Friday). This is evident from John 19:31, which shows that the following day was “a great” sabbath. The day after Passover was always a sabbath, no matter on what day of the week it came. (Le 23:5-7) But when this special Sabbath coincided with the regular Sabbath (the seventh day of the week), it became “a great one.” So Jesus’ death took place on Friday, Nisan 14, by about 3:00 p.m.—Lu 23:44-46.
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He didn't make it Holy for one group of people. Read Genesis chapter 1. He created the universe in six days (well, we don't know what a "day" was back then, so it might have been much longer...who knows?), and on the seventh, he rested and made it Holy--for everyone! Not just the Jewish people--also for the Gentiles. Now, the Jewish population are God's chosen people, but that does not mean that the Sabbath was created ONLY for them to recognize.
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Almost all professing Christians disregard the Sabbath and embrace Sunday. Why? The REASON to honor Sunday, is because Sunday is the "venerable day of the sun god," according to Emperor Constantine's decree, and the Pope took it upon himself to change God's Law & rubber-stamp the pagan order. The EXCUSE that many mainliners (Catholic, Protestant, non-denominational) will give is that the Resurrection occurred on Sunday. That is NOT a fact! ~Resurrection Sunday~ is a fallacy! It is a vague possibility, but not even probable.\n\nRef: Matthew 28:1-6, Mark 16:1-6, & Luke 24:1-7 - Neither Scripture nor secular history records a time of the Resurrection to define what day it was for modern, Western believers.\n\nIt says that when the women got to the tomb... they had MISSED the miracle - they were TOO LATE - He was ALREADY risen & out of the tomb!\n\nThe time elements we are given is that it was after the Sabbath - which ends after sunset on Saturday; and it was the first day of the week - which for Jews using God's calendar, started after sunset on Saturday. So there is a blank amount of time from Saturday dusk to Sunday sunrise. He could have risen *anytime before* midnight Saturday.\n\nSo, not knowing when the Resurrection was, it is erroneous (heterodoxy?) to assume that it was Sunday & to change God's Law of His Holy Day of rest & worship. ~Not to mention~ that 'Sunday' is a pagan-named day on the pagan-based calendar. God does not tolerate anything pagan in His worship. That is why I said it is "possible" the Resurrection was on Sunday, but not probable.\n\nGod gave the Sabbath as a gift to man. The NT references to believers gathering on the first day of the week to break bread is evidently Saturday evening (based on the heathen calendar), after the Sabbath ended.... They very well could have been celebrating the Resurrection, they may have unrecorded info that indeed the Resurrection was Saturday! In any event, I would not want to bet my soul that it was a ~Sunday Resurrection~; nor teach others that it WAS ON Sunday!
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God gave us one day per week to rest and spend time with Him. It is the last day of the week which is Saturday on our calender. On Good Friday we remember the crucifixion, \nhis side was pierced so they could take him down from the cross because the next day was the Sabbath. Then He rose on Sunday and we celebrate new life and a new week.\nFor me it's Friday sunset to Saturday sunset.
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Yes, Eostra was the celebration of the Sun Goddess, the dawn, which explains why easter (rising 'sun/son'). When early Christians met many celebrators they adopted the festivals and gave the new Christians another reason to celebrate. Who'd want a religion that didn't think partying was okay (we didn't do that till the dark ages - and we're sorry about that)?\n\nIn Latin, rest is 'Sabbatum', the traditional rest day was Friday to Saturday. I think many Christians now celebrate Church on Sunday for no other reason that it is the last day of the 'work' week and therefore a day of rest. It may have also been started to marginalise Jewish people who wanted to rest on Day 6, quite likely, I think. Apologies.  We have a weekend now (two days) so that should keep most westerners happy.\n\nIt would be interesting to know if we had a seven day week before the Romans and if the seven Teutonic names were whittled down (or 'plumped' up) to coincide with the Judeo-Christian week. There's a whole PHD in that, I think. \n\nThe Calendar was imposed by Julius Caesar, hence the Roman names and probably some deference to conquered countries. I would suspect the seasons and names would have had Hebrew names in the Jewish culture. \n\nThe Bible only suggests we celebrate one festival, Communion, and the others are just extra fun. I don't mind when Jesus was born, I often don't get to celebrate my birthday on the day either, it's just nice to have it remembered. At least we don't have to put candles on His cake (maybe that's what the tree is for - oh Gawd I'm going to be surfing for information for hours now). \n\nI think you offered enough query to keep me up all night. Cheers. :)
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If Sabbath was blessed and sanctified by God on the Seventh day of the week of Creation, in a world where there was not sin, everything was perfect; it is in the Fourth Commandment of God's Law; we know from the Scriptures that it's been kept throughout all these years as a sign of God and His people; and we'll keep it in Heaven according to Isaiah 66; why not?\n\nAbout the mark of the beast, check out these videos:\n\nhttp://www.amazingfacts.org/resources/video/MPVideo/mp13.asx\n\nhttp://www.amazingfacts.org/resources/video/MPVideo/mp14.asx\n\nYou may also visit http://www.sabbathtruth.com/\n\nYou may contact me as well. I'll be really glad to help.\n\nGod bless you, folks!
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Here it is from Exodus 20:1-17.\n\nExodus 20\nThe Ten Commandments \n 1 And God spoke all these words: \n 2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. \n\n 3 "You shall have no other gods before [a] me. \n\n 4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. 5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand {generations} of those who love me and keep my commandments. \n\n 7 "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name. \n\n 8 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. \n\n 12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you. \n\n 13 "You shall not murder. \n\n 14 "You shall not commit adultery. \n\n 15 "You shall not steal. \n\n 16 "You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. \n\n 17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."
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I am a Christian and I keep the Sabbath.  I don't work or do business.  I go to church.  I wouldn't want to travel if that's what you mean by a plane ride.  Some times I will go driving just to relax.  I also don't watch much TV either.  I read my Bible only and fellowship. I would make a sandwich.  I let my electricity run.  I think that some Jews try to put to much in.  Like some don't rip toilet paper on the Sabbath, they do it during the day Friday.  They add things like the Pharisees.  You will find a lot of people do different things on the Sabbath.
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Christians changed the word of God thinking they have more authority than their God, Jesus Christ. And they say: We changed because Christ resurrected on the first day. Did Jesus tell you to do so??\nAnyway, the Resurrection is not the reason why one should observe the day of the rest. God gave the reason once for all times:\n\nRemember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.\nSix days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work \nBut the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy\ndaughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:\nFOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IN THEM IS, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.\n\nSabbath is the reminder of the God the creator and since God remains the creator for all times, so does the Sabbath remains the day of rest.\nThe commandment about the day of rest was inscribed in the stone together with all others by God himself. If you want to abolish Sabbath, please take the hammer in your hand and break that stone. Who wants to be the first?
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Jesus and his father were one as people are one. It's unity, not literally one being. Christians were (and many still are) literalists. Regarding the Sabbath, he was lord of the Sabbath because he didn't believe in the law. Jesus said his father will uproot everything that he didn't plant. Jesus was savior & liberator, not god. Jesus...\n\n-- opened the eyes of the blind (sound familiar?)\n-- said you can eat what you want no matter what someone commanded (sound familiar?)\n\nJesus is the serpent:\n\nAnd as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up. [John 3:14]\n\nand his real disciples are serpents\n\nBehold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. [Matthew 10:16]\n\n[Aquila is giggling]
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So many bad answers from Christians on this it's fairly amusing.\n\n1. "Things/the rules have changed"\n\nResting on the sabbath is a moral precept of one's obligation to Yahweh.  If you are saying this changed, you are saying that God changes his morals, which opens up the idea of moral subjectivitiy.  There is no way around when God said "forever".  Either you are calling him a liar, or you are wrong.\n\n2.  "The law was destroyed"\n\nThen why did Jesus say he did not come to destroy the law?  Remember thar part in Matthew about "not one jot or tittle of the law"?  You are calling Jesus a liar here....not sure what your God would think of that.\n\n3.  Paul said hold no day above any other.\n\nSwell for Paul.  Unfortuantely, Jesus and Yahweh BOTH said different.  Tie goes to the deity, I would think.\n\n4.  "Christians are under grace, not the law"\n\nThen you can ignore the 10 commandments, I assume.  No?  Only the fourth one?  I see.  What part of "forever" and what Jesus said in Matthew don't Christians understand?\n\n******\n\nThose are just a few responses.  Christians love to pull the "Paul Card".  Go ahead and grab anything Paul may have said (ignoring that he often spoke on behalf of himself, not God) and use that to totally dismiss something either Yahweh or Jesus said.\n\nThe bible IS inconsistent.  But if I were to believe in it, I sure has heck would take God's "forever" dictate pretty serious, not Paul's bitter ramblings.
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He died on a Wednesday, for He was in the tomb three days and three nights. For Him to have died on a Friday,and to be put in the tomb on Friday just before sunset, He would not have fulfilled the Prophecy concerning His death and resurrection. He would have only been in the tomb, one day and one night.\nThere was the Passover from Tuesday evening until Wednesday evening, which was when Jesus  had the last supper with the Apostles and was afterwards arrested and crucified, and laid in the tomb before sunset. At Sunset wednesday evening was the Sabbath of The Feast of Unleaven Bread, then there is the weekly Sabbath, Sunset Friday to Sunset Saturday. There were two Sabbaths during this time.
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Actually the laws that were done away with are the "laws contained in ordinances".\nSite:\nhttp://community.webshots.com/photo/80628344/2012353330047993148Lqpai\n\nMany people confuse these with the Seventh Day Sabbath and Sabbath Feast Days.\n\n\nThe Laws Contained in Ordinances = Eph.2:15 & Col.2:15\n**It seems that most believe these two texts are saying that the Sabbath and/or Sabbath Feasts are done away with. Let me ask you a question: who wrote these books; wasn't it Paul? Paul kept the Sabbath (Acts 17:2) & Sabbath Feasts (Rom.5:11) like Jesus; then these texts must not be talking about that, when the Bible says to follow Jesus (Col.2:6) and the Apostles (Eph.2:20). If you believe the Bible is inspired (2Tim.3:16) & is the truth (John 17:17); continue on!\n**If everyone read the Bible clearly on these matters like Jesus did; then they're wouldn't be false interpetations! The Bible says in Colossians 2:16-17 "Let no man therefore judge you....which are a shadow of things to come" inwhich Jesus showed openly.\nIt explains some of these ordinances in Colossians 2:20-22 "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?"\nNow Hebrews 9:9-13 explains it more! \nSee: Heb.9:10 "Which stood only in meats and drinks, and diverse washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation."\nThe other part to this about "judging on the Sabbath,...etc." are in: \nMark 2:23-28; 7:2-23; Luke 13:10-16; 14:1-3 & John 5:8-10; 7:23-24.\nNotice in every matter; the Pharisees thought it was wrong to eat with unwashed hands, to heal on the Sabbath, helping out people/animals on the Sabbath as other things; but Jesus always came back with Bible answers to them!\nSo what is actually done away with is "the judging of these days" and the animal sacrifices!