You continue with the error that the law is still in effect despite the fact that Jesus FULFILLED the law. You pick the Sabbath out of that law but ignore the animal sacrificial system. Are our sins still covered regularly by the blood of lambs? Or are our sins covered once and for all by the blood of Jesus Christ? Do you think we should become Jews?
You really need to educate yourself. You have a lot of false beliefs. You're wrong about a lot of things. Study the Bible. Get a book on systematic theology. Go to enduringword.com for online commentary. If you want godly preaching go to ttb.org and listen to J Vernon McGee's 5 year program on the entire Bible. Or go to thruthebible.ca and download the whole thing to your computer.
You should consider the warning that James gives:
(James 3:1 NIV) Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
What did the early church tell gentile believers?
(Acts 15:23-29 NIV) With them they sent the following letter: The apostles and elders, your brothers, To the Gentile believers in Antioch, Syria and Cilicia: Greetings. {24} We have heard that some went out from us without our authorization and disturbed you, troubling your minds by what they said. {25} So we all agreed to choose some men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul-- {26} men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. {27} Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing. {28} It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements: {29} You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
LOL, My opening line for this post was "We need to trust God, not man..." Your reply is, trust man...
The sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments. Also, read Hebrews if you want to understand the new priesthood, "But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." Hebrews 9:11-12
As for becoming Jews, no, of course not. I am neither from the tribe of Judah nor do I think Judaism is a good idea. However, this does not negate the fact that believers who were formerly gentiles get grafted into God's people, Israel.
"Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ." Ephesians 2:11-13
Please read the actual words above. We used to be gentiles.
Now, we are
If we are no longer aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, what then are we? Joined to Israel, aka grafted in. Why is this important? We need to be in covenant with God, i.e. not strangers from the covenant of promise. The new covenant is between God and Israel...
"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." Jeremiah 31:31-33
That is the New Covenant that God speaks of, not the made up one the modern church pretends exists. Please, read your bible, not the books of men. Allow the Spirit of truth to guide you into truth ("Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come." John 13:16) (since that is the reason it is given) rather than exalted men to lead you astray.
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Also, to answer your question from Acts, you'll need to back up. What did they tell the gentile believers? Hmmm.... let's see
"Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day."" (Acts 15:19-21
They said start by:
Then they said Moses is read every Sabbath...
Basically, start here, and then learn more. Do you think people who show up at church understand it all instantly? No, they learn over time, as they continue to read the word of God. That's the same thing the early church did, but without rejecting God's laws... "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." (Romans 8:7)
Please don't be a carnal enemy of God by rejecting His laws.
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There's nobody outside of Seventh Day Adventists and JW's the believe we need to observe the Sabbath. And they're cults.
The 10 commandments are part of the entire Jewish Law. You can't just pick the Sabbath out of there unless you're saying we should observe that too.
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False. Plenty of people believe in the Sabbath other than SDAs and JWs. For instance, Messianic Jews. Also, me. I am not a SDA or a JW, and I believe that God called the Sabbath holy and told believers to remember and observe it.
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Honestly @barncat, you've outdone yourself this time. This is probably the most foolish comment I've ever seen you leave, and you've left a lot of them. So... let's see. Does it work in your mind this way as well?
The 10 commandments are part of the entire Jewish Law. You can't just pick "don't murder" out of there unless you're saying we should observe that too.
The 10 commandments are part of the entire Jewish Law. You can't just pick "do not commit adultery" out of there unless you're saying we should observe that too.
The 10 commandments are part of the entire Jewish Law. You can't just pick "thou shalt not steal" out of there unless you're saying we should observe that too.
See, I believe all 10 of the 10 commandments should be observed and obeyed. In your battle against the Sabbath, you basically said that you don't believe Christians need to obey any of the Ten Commandments. Are you serious? If so, that's the most foolish thing I've ever seen from you.
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