I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death.
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that's how Islamic terrorists think too. You cannot let religion or anything for that matter cloud your own moral and intellectual judgement. Anyone can interpret the bible or the quoran any way they want. It does not mean that its true...
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Exodus 13:9-- \nAnd it shall be for a SIGN unto thee upon thine hand, and for a MEMORIAL between thine eyes, that Yahweh's Law may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.\nEzekiel 20:12-13,16,20-- \n12 Moreover also I gave them MY SABBATHS; to be a SIGN between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh that sanctify them. \n13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and MY SABBATHS they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them. \n16 Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my SABBATHS: for their heart went after their idols. \n20 And HALLOW MY SABBATHS; and they shall be a SIGN between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Yahweh your Father\n. \nThe Hebrew word translated sign is owth, and means mark. When one obeys Yahweh’s Laws, and observes His Ordinances which govern His Feasts--Doing Every Word That Proceeds From Yahweh’s Mouth, this person is marked by Yahweh as belonging to Him. \nYahweh’s mark is in this person’s forehead because this person’s mind is upon Yahweh and His Every Word. Yahweh’s Mark is also in that person’s hands because that person’s hands cease from doing any work on Yahweh’s Sabbaths. Yahweh’s Mark is the sign upon one’s hands and a remembrance between one’s eyes. \n\nIn the same context, when a person obeys Satan--by rebelling against Yahweh in any way--that person is also marked as belonging to Satan! We are told plainly that we are servants to whom we obey, in: \n\nRomans 6:16--\nDo you not know that to WHOM YOU YIELD YOURSELVES AS SERVANTS TO OBEY, HIS SERVANTS YOU ARE WHOM YOU OBEY--whether of sin, which leads to death, or of Obedience, which leads to righteousness?
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I would challenge the person who answered that it will keep you out of heaven.  Where does it say that in the Bible?  \n\nNote: I am not endorsing suicide.  I don't think it's a good idea at all to destroy what God has given you responsibility for, and I would advise against it.
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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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Says who?\n\nI never saw that as one of the 10 Commandments.\n\n"Thou shalt not feel happiness, but rather the millstone of grief shall hang about thee neck until the Judgment Day cometh."
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Here we go again. Get a grip. BTW - the commandment reads, "Thou shall not murder".
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An observation -- you are clearly arguing that Gen 2:17 is contradicted by what follows.   But don't you find it just a bit odd that the writer (or editor), who clearly is presenting God's words as TRUE, would in such a short span contradict his own story and not even recognize it??   Couldn't it be that, as obvious as it seems to you, there is something going on here that you are unaware of?\n\nIn fact, God's threat IS carried out, and swiftly.  The language he uses is found several other times in the Old Testment, esp. of kings pronouncing sentence or warning that the death sentence will most certainly follow if the person disobeys.\n\nExamples: (using ESV; I ordinarily use NIV, but this was closer to hand on my computer!)\n\nGenesis 20:7)\nNow then, return the man's wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all who are yours." \n\nExodus 10:28)\nThen Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me; take care never to see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die."\n\nby Saul:  1 Samuel 14:44,   20:31,  22:16\n\nSolomon's warning to Shimei, in which he puts Shimei under oath, on pain of death, not to leave Jerusalem\n\n1Ki 2:37)  \nFor on the day you go out and cross the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall die. Your blood shall be on your own head." \n\nAnd when Shimei violates the oath\n1Ki 2:42)  \nThe king sent and summoned Shimei and said to him, "Did I not make you swear by the LORD and solemnly warn you, saying, 'Know for certain that on the day you go out and go to any place whatever, you shall die'? And you said to me, 'What you say is good; I will obey.' \n\nThe point of all these is the DEATH SENTENCE will surely follow. (Solomon even speaks of "the day when", but clearly it is not the day that the violation occurs, but when Solomon apprehends him.)\n\nAnd the sentence DID follow in Genesis -- God pronounces sentence in Genesis 3:17-9:\n\nAnd to Adam he said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. \nBy the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return." \n\nNow there IS indeed a delay in the 'final execution' of this sentence, but as God as said, it most surely does happen -- he passes sentence, and Adam DOES die.   In fact, the genealogy of Genesis 5 makes a great point of this, for it ends each entry (with the notable exception of Enoch, who "walked with God") with "and he DIED". \n\nBut there is something more immediate.\n\nYou note the reference to the tree of life, and others comment that if man had eaten from it he would live, which 'proves' what God had said wasn't true.  But God did NOT say the sentence would be automatic --as if the fruit was POISON.  Rather, he would pronounce SENTENCE, that HE would carry out.   His BLOCKING the way to the tree of life is PART of God carrying out thesentence!   Thus man CANNOT eat of it and will, instead, die.\n\nThere's even more to it than that.   Some have suggested that Adam "died spiritually" that day.  There is something to this, but again it fails to see that the DEATH sentence was something GOD was passing and seeing to the carrying out of.   So, what did God do THAT DAY?   He CAST Adam & Eve OUT of the Garden (in which the tree of life was found!),  from the special place of HIS presence...  into a place of hardship and ultimately death. \n\nThe rest of the OT builds on this picture -- that 'real life' is living i
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The bible is 'Gods' word to us.It says to pray without ceasing. That means on a daily basis.I have had prayers that haven't ''yet'' been answered. They are still in his care waiting for right time or till I realize it isn't His will for my life, and I find peace about it.Hang in and hang on..God is faithful.   ''He is able to do exceedingly ,abuntdantly above that which  I ask or think''
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It is a tradition of pagan men (specifically Emperor Constantine & those who follow him). It directly contradicts God's will as expressed in the 10 Commandments. God views iniquity like this as an abhorrent abomination.\n\nWe should not test God's Grace. (Do not sin in order to make Grace abound.)\n\nAnyway, the Sabbath Rest was made FOR man - don't abuse it (don't desecrate it); enjoy the Gift with praise & worship as intended.
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humm good question. i believe that the old covenant was abolished with Christ sacrifice and Resurrection. I also believe that are parts of the old covenant that should be kept just to keep us focused. Just as the Ten Commandments should still be followed, we should also tithe. The Sabbath if we were to follow it like the Jews do (no disrespect at all) then we could do nothing including teach, preach, or bring the word to unbelievers, so the Sabbath in ways is a stumbling block to our beliefs and truths. Pastors must push tithing for the same reasons. I have also come to notice that when  you give God your money and control over your finances he blesses you 10 fold. so pray about it. don't just give it up because you don't have to sacrifice makes things all the sweeter.
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Proof that our "friend" is a hypocrite and a mental case, see above.\n\nI ask myself every time I read the Bible, what does this mean FOR me.
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Sabbath, or Shabot, was established by God for man as a time of restoration. The Sabbath Day, to rest from the 'sweat of his brow to earn his bread'. The Sabbath Year to give rest to the land that it would continue to yield fruit. Sabbath is given to the Jews, and is commanded ONLY to them.\n\nThe New Testament concept of Sabbath is much debated, but here goes with my best understanding. When man was under the condemnation of the Law, God gave us rest (Sabbath) from that condemnation through animal sacrafice. When Jesus went to the cross, He began THE SABBATH, our ETERNAL rest from that condemnation, and so He is called 'The Lord of the Sabbath'.\n\nJews ARE COMMANDED to observe the specific Sabbath Day from sunset on Saturday to sunset on Sunday. Various interpretations of traditions allow that Jewish Christians, who by God's ordinance MUST obey the Sabbath, may celebrate on one day or the other.\n\nGentile Christians, on the other hand, are not under the Law. It is my personal conviction that every day is Sabbath, in as much as every day I am released from condemnation by the Blood of Jesus. However, in observing the SPIRIT of the Law, which Jesus spent a great deal of time teaching us about, I set one day a week (sometimes it moves around) aside to rest from 'earning a living'.\n\nBest scriptural summary I can find is this; "One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, does not observe it to the Lord. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.""For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, then we die to the Lord. Therefore, if we live or die, we are the Lord's." Romans 14:5-6,8\n\nThis passage is actually referring to judging others for worshiping God differently than you do, but Pauls examples are pertinent, and loose no meaning separated from the context.
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"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." Leviticus 20:13.\n\nuse that one if you dont believe paul
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Interesting, but my translation says "God takes his stand in his own congregation".  (New American Standard).  We would need to discuss it with an expert in ancient hebrew to form an informed opinion, so take it easy.
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how about the 10 commandments?\n\nExo 20:2  [#1]  I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. \n\nExo 20:3  Thou shalt have no other gods before me. \n\nExo 20:4  [#2]  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. \n\nExo 20:5  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; \n\nExo 20:6  And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. \n\nExo 20:7  [#3]  Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. \n\nExo 20:8  [#4]  Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. \n\nExo 20:9  Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: \n\nExo 20:10  But 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 daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: \n\nExo 20:11  For 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\n[Note:  The "sabbath day" being referred to here is the Hebrew/Israel/Jewish sabbath day [the seventh (7th) day of the week, Saturday], that begins Friday at sundown, and continues until Saturday at sundown.] \n\nExo 20:12  [#5]  Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. \n\nExo 20:13  [#6]  Thou shalt not kill. \n\nExo 20:14  [#7]  Thou shalt not commit adultery. \n\nExo 20:15  [#8]  Thou shalt not steal. \n\nExo 20:16  [#9]  Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. \n\nExo 20:17  [#10]  Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. \n\nExo 20:18  And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off. \n\nExo 20:19  And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die. \n\nExo 20:20  And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not. \n\nExo 20:21  And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was. \n\n~ Idols and Altars \n\nExo 20:22  And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven. \n\nExo 20:23  Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. \n\nExo 20:24  An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee. \n\nExo 20:25  And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it. \n\nExo 20:26  Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.
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"Then I heard the LORD say to the other men, "Follow him through the city and kill everyone whose forehead is not marked.  Show no mercy; have no pity!  Kill them all – old and young, girls and women and little children.  But do not touch anyone with the mark.  Begin your task right here at the Temple."  So they began by killing the seventy leaders.  "Defile the Temple!" the LORD commanded.  "Fill its courtyards with the bodies of those you kill!  Go!"  So they went throughout the city and did as they were told."  (Ezekiel 9:5-7 NLT)\n\n\n If even then you remain hostile toward me and refuse to obey, I will inflict you with seven more disasters for your sins.  I will release wild animals that will kill your children and destroy your cattle, so your numbers will dwindle and your roads will be deserted.  (Leviticus 26:21-22 NLT)\n\n\n(Moses) stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, "All of you who are on the LORD's side, come over here and join me." And all the Levites came.  He told them, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Strap on your swords! Go back and forth from one end of the camp to the other, killing even your brothers, friends, and neighbors."  The Levites obeyed Moses, and about three thousand people died that day.  Then Moses told the Levites, "Today you have been ordained for the service of the LORD, for you obeyed him even though it meant killing your own sons and brothers. Because of this, he will now give you a great blessing."  (Exodus 32:26-29 NLT)\n\n\n "Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Yes, march against Babylon, the land of rebels, a land that I will judge!  Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you," says the LORD.  "Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction".   (Jeremiah 50:21-22 NLT)\n\n\n As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace.  If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor.  But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town.  When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town.  But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder.  You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)\n\nand maaannnyyy more if u interesting, but i think i already made a very good point...
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also to kill people that work on the sabbath day too or yeah and gays too