You're just pasting together unrelated scriptures. When I say unrelated, I mean that one was not meant to be added to the other like the way you're doing. Once again, one scripture mentione, in passing, the snactifying of the Sabbath. It is not an account of God telling man to keep it. The second, God comands it to His people. Nowhere is it portrayed as "I really expect this from everyone, but I'm focusing on you now". You see that with murder and everything else, but the Sabbath was the "sign" between Israel and God.My understanding of God's Word allows me to simply accept Christ's statement that the Gen 2:3 "making of the Holy Seventh day" was in fact "Making it for Mankind".
Your traditions take the statement "The Sabbath was made for mankind" and changes it to "the Sabbath was made for someone among mankind".
I don't "have" to employ such a tortured edit of the text - my understanding of God's Word does not "need" it - yours obviously does.
In Isaiah 66 when we see "ALL MANKIND" honoring God's Sabbath in the New Earth - it is obviously "consistent" with the GENESIS of the Sabbath - "MADE for Mankind" as I accept the reading of the text of Mark 2:27.
For your view "this is yet another challenge" to be "overcome".
Then in Exodus 20 when God Himself argues that the Gen 2:3 facts "alone" establish the binding nature of Christ the Creator's Holy Seventh day - AS a Holy Day - Sanctified, Blessed and MADE -- my view "accepts" those details of the Exodus 20 statement.
In your traditions - it becomes yet "another challenge".
This is repeatedly brought to your attention - why not deal with it?
The third, is a picture of a fture scenario, that may have been conditional. It says nothing about what we are to do now. The last, once again, Jesus is saying which is made for which. It has nothing to do with "how much of one the other is made for". You take the other passages and read them into this, and expect me to buy this. While we are to interpret scripture by scripture, you have chosen four distinct texts which are relating different events. Exodus is based on Genesis, but there is no connection where because God created it in Genesis, it was revealed to all, and because He commanded it in Exodus, it was binding on all. These are two separate contexts.
See, where do you get all of this from? Jesus spoke in a negative fashion, of what it was not. You're turning all of this into a positive declaration of something it is, and then turning this into a "binding" (more like what He was saying it was not!) Jesus says nothing there of Genesis, and Genesis says nothing of "blessing for all mankind". You cross these passages, and then begin adding each others statements to the other, left and right, until you can no longer tell which scripture is which. This is horrible exegesis!The 2nd half of that statement is "equally devastating" to your views if you were thinking clearly. Christ is arguing that from the very start - in Gen 2:3 it was a blessing FOR mankind. In Mark 2:27 He argues that it is STILL true. (no change).
They were doing a lot of things before the Cross, which we do not do now. yet, all of these things had intents (such as "blessing"), not one jot nor tittle would pass. Whatever you say, it is possible for these things to be fulfilled without our "actual" doing what is in the letter.This means that your vaccuous "blessing without actually honoring Christs day" falls flat. Even in your view - they were "really keeping" the Sabbath in the pre-cross era. If Christ is arguing for continued "blessing" then it was in "real keeping" not in "clearly ignoring" Christ the Creator's Holy day.
But the issue was not whether, man was made for salvation, or salvation was made for man. It was not a general statement about any people. Jews is specific. You are the one who believes it was not for a specific people. But "man" is inclusive, meaning that even if it was made only for the Jews, then they are "men", and either they as men were made for it, or it was made for them, as men. Any other man could also join Israel, or as Christians, keep the day unto the Lord, and as men, it was made for them, not them for it. Christ's statment is still true. "Mankind" can mean some men or all men. Some men were given the sabbath. any others could come and join them. But none of this says anything about ALL mean being bound by it.Furthermore - in John 4 Christ said "Salvation is of the Jews" - he never says "Salvation is of mankind" as a way to identify "someone in mankind".
It was still not COMMANDED to them, and in fact they were shortly permitted to eat any meat. You are taking one scripture and setting it in opposition to another. The unclean were banned from sacrifice, but not as food, then. That was the only context in which it was recorded as being revealed to Noah.So then "the details" of the "Criteria" for "clean vs unclean" ARE recorded "exhaustively" in Gen 6 so that mankind would know which animals to bring in by sevens?
Please - point to the text and Prove your "exhaustive" text assertion.
When you see the big issue He made of it with Israel all throughout the Law and the Prophets, you wonder why it was totally absent before them. Then you see it commanded for the first time to Israel, and the only conclusion is that He did not command it before then.So - though we can show that Christ said it WAS made "For mankind" and it is stated clearly in Gen 2:3 as BEING the 7th-day of Creation week itself - you are arguing that "since God was not killing Sabbath breakers" it must not have been there?
So apparently with all the other sins they were committing, this was not something God was focusing on then. Later on, it did become a "commandment". (I'll have to research further as to from what scripture the Jewish scholars deduced this as one of the 7 universal laws). And this we see continued throughout the New Testament, and it is universal, because how could God ever allow us to misuse His name? That is totally detrimental to any relationship with Him. God does not need anyone keeping a sabbath for Him.Do you only "admit" to the Word when you see rebellion against it? This is an "odd" form of "proof".
We have no record of mankind "taking God's Name in Vain" in those pre-flood years - are you saying that was "because God did not care about it"?
What about the "exhaustive text" regarding that matter?
Or do you think that the evil of mankind - so terrible that the earth was destroyed by a flood - did not "Take God's Name in Vain"?
Admit it - your argument is simply grasping at straws.
No, the Laws that God wrote on the human conscience as Paul teaches, and expected of man always. To keep calling this "man made it up", you are mocking the Word of God, based on your idea that God only communicates to us by unchanging lists of written commandments.Argument from Humanism. We deny what Christ said was "made for mankind" but we honor what "mankind dreams up on his own".
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They claim that there were universal laws back in the days of Noah and Abraham
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Laws that God gave or that man "made up"?
But the point is, God still does establish things "for man" that not all men are to "participate" in at all times, and this does not annul the fact that He did establish them. He gives us partial revelation also. (So he gave a 7 day week, but nothing about "keeping" the seventh day, right then). He gives them to man in His own timing, according to His purpose.True enough - but for us to actually benefit from them - we must live in them. Being kept in the dark - and living in mud huts here on earth - is not our way of "benefiting". But in the Garden in Gen 2:3 Mankind received its 7-day week with the 7th day being Christ the Creator's Holy Day.
Nothing "distant" about it -
No need to "presume the dark" for Adam as you do.
Ad once again, I'm not defending any "traditions". I am not arguing for Sunday! You are still erecting straw men to prove your point.