NEW COVENANT - "
THIS is the Covenant I WILL make with the house of ISRAEL and the house of JUDAH ... I will write MY LAW on their mind and on their heart" Heb 8:6-10
'For he is NOT a JEW that is one OUTWARDLY ... but he is a JEW who is one INWARDLY" Rom 2
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from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship" Is 66:23
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Sabbath was MADE for MANKIND"
Mark 2:27
Repetition of error does not all of a sudden burst into truth. Your grain of truth mixed with arsenic is still poison. You have not pointed to any verse that gives a command for the NT believer to keep the Sabbath. Where is that verse Bob?
For now - let us pause and consider that your wild speculation so far so utterly contradicts the texts just quoted --sorry but I am going to have to stick with the Bible on this.
Here is an instructive moment I think for us all - when it comes to this subject.
It is always instructive Bob, since you continually post a position contrary to what the Bible actually says.
The text says He found no fault "with the Law" -- rather "finding fault with THEM". Details matter.
And in Heb 8:6-10 we are told that the TEN Commandments are the words of CHRIST -
We are told that the LAW as known to Jeremiah - the moral LAW of God - known to Jeremiah and his readers - would be "written on the mind and heart" under the NEW COVENANT.
Some Christians here - including myself claim to be NEW Covenant Christians - others will reject the NEW Covenant of course - since it is made with "the house of Israel and the house of Judah" -
The only covenant in the NT that actually applies to the NT believer is that which the believer makes with Christ at the time of salvation. It is a relationship with Christ. Christ comes by the power of His Holy Spirit and dwells within the believer at the time when he receives the gift of salvation provided by Christ by faith alone, not by works. Christ paid it all. He atoned for our sins completely. There is no more work to do. Our sins are completely atoned for. His work was completely finished on the cross, as he proclaimed, "It is finished." There is nothing more to do.
There is no other covenant.
What you seem to be referring to is this:
Colossians 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.
Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and
took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or
in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of
the sabbath days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
--The Sabbath Day (as well as all other sabbaths) are simply shadows of the real Sabbath, which is Jesus Christ. These shadows have passed. Christ is now our rest. The Sabbath has been done away with. The Sabbath in only for the Jew.
'For he is NOT a JEW that is one OUTWARDLY ... but he is a JEW who is one INWARDLY
There is no Jew posting on this board that I know of. You certainly are not one. I don't believe Jews would join the SDA movement. But you are prone to take scripture out of context.
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True
- the Law to "love God with all your heart" perfectly fulfilled by Christ
-the Law to "Love your neighbor as yourself" perfectly fulfilled by Christ
-the Law to "Honor your parents" perfectly fulfilled by Christ - yet we have Eph 6:2 reminding us not to break it. Because it is the "FIRST commandment with a promise" in that still-binding UNIT of TEN
No, the fourth commandment was never applicable to the NT believer. This is easily seen as one goes to other cultures and examines "the law written on the hearts of other men." The Sabbath is never one of them.
You quote "you"??? No text says that in real life - so you "quote you"?
I am not sure what you are referring to. I quoted from memory. Here is the exact verse:
Colossians 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
--What is your problem?
"SIN IS transgression of the LAW" 1 John 3:4
Take heed in the heretical position that you post.
Rom 6
15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? May it never be! 16 Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?
WE are not under the condemnation of the LAW but as the very chapter that speaks to this point says - that does not mean we are free to sin against it - for "SIN is transgression of the LAW"
And thus it is sin when you consider what is written in the scripture that I have given you in Col.2:16,17., as well as Col.3:10. You cannot keep the law and advise others to keep the law.
In reality you don't keep the Sabbath, and never have. This is hypocrisy on your part.
Check here how to keep the Sabbath:
http://www.jewfaq.org/shabbat.htm
Your "definition" of "under the law" differs from Paul in his Romans 6 statement.
You defined "under the law" as -- obedience.
Thus in the model you are describing to "Love God with all your heart" is to place yourself under the LAW - in the negative sense in which Romans 6 uses that phrase.
Here again we have an "instructive moment" we should pause here and reflect on what you are saying.
It is true that law is used in more than one way in the Bible. However, when speaking of the Sabbath, the Sabbath is part of Israel's law or covenant law that does not apply to us.
This is made very clear in Exodus 31:
Exodus 31:16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
--It obviously has nothing to do with the Gentile believer. It is for the Israelite and their generations forever.