I see no responds concerning these others things I post here. I'm talking about the people who have a problem with the Lord's commandments, Statutes and Judgements...which I believe you have a problem with...see...thats what this thing is really about.
Now you can stroll up to verse 8 in Colossians...now that verse may fits you well... Let’s read it...2:8
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Yep, like Easter, which is coming up, Sunday worship, Christmas, etc. Got nothing to do with Christ.
Then you quote
Romans 14: 5 Like Paul have the authority to make changes in the word of God. Paul wouldn't make it in the kingdom it change the Lord Holy sabbath day. In fact Paul kept the Lord's sabbath day on the seventh day of the week and also the Gentiles!! The Apostle Paul understood this he knew and kept Gods law including the seventh day sabbath. Now lets take a look at;
(Acts 13:13-15, 42,44) (v.13) Now when Paul and his company loosed from Pa’-phus, they came to Per’-ga in Pam-phyl’-I-a: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem. (v.14) But when they departed from Per’-ga, they came to An’-ti-och in Pi-sid’-I-a, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down. Paul went into the church (synagogue) on the sabbath day the seventh day not the first day (Sunday).
(v.15) And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. (v.42) And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. The Gentiles didn’t asked Paul to come preach us something different next Sunday. They wanted Paul to preach to them the same thing that he taught the Jews, the next sabbath. Even the Gentiles knew that if they were going to serve the same God that Paul and the Jews (Israelites) served that they would have to serve him on the day that God had set up.
(v.42) And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. Not the next Sunday but the next sabbath.
Since Bro.tan has consistently refrained from responding to any of my posts addressing him, (did i miss one?) I am going to refer to him in the third person only.
At the risk of pointing out that which is obvious to most, it seems Bro.tan has not picked up on the simple truth that when Paul wanted to preach the gospel to the Jews, he chose to pick a time and a place when they would all be gathered to gether ..ie in a Synagogue, on the Sabbath day. Would there have been a better time and place?
Apparently he has not connected all the dots properly and thinks that because Paul preached in a Synagogue on the Sabbath, that is some sort of endorsement of Sabbath day worship andat the same time a denouncement of first day of the week (Sunday) worship.
I wonder how many Jews would have heard Paul preach the gospel if he had instead, gone out of the city limits and preached to the stars at midnight?
Yet Paul also preached the gospel in Athens - Greece, and we are not told he did so on the Sabbath day..indeed the account seems to favour a different day of the week and / or more that one day, since no mention of the Sabbath is made, indeed in a Gentile country in those days the Sabbath had no meaning or relevance.....read on..
Act 17:21. Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
Act 17:22. So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.
Act 17:23. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
also,
1Co 16:1. Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.
1Co 16:2. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.
Now I would suggest that unless the first day of the week was payday, then there was something else significant about that day and Paul saw it as the best time to collect gift money.
It was a day when all the saints would be gathered together and their gifts could be collected (and stored) for when Paul was to arrive.
Bro.tan should remember that these were Gentile Christians and were not bound by any prohibition of work on the Sabbath day. In other words if they met on the Sabbath day for worship thay could have collected gift money without the penalty of being stoned to death..
In fact after the Apostles met in Jerusalem and discussed the matter of the growing numbers of Gentiles being saved, they wrote as follows::
Act 15:28. For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay on you no greater burden than these requirements:
Act 15:29. that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell."
Wow, notice how there is absolutely no mention of the Sabbath.
It saddens me when someone takes Scripture and fails to understand what is really being said, and why that Scripture record has been passed down to us through the ages.
But alas....