The Sabbath

@angies (132)
Australia
May 11, 2007 3:46am CST
The Sabbath day is not binding to christians, this law was abolished on the basis of Jesus death. Do you believe this?
1 response
mattithyahu
@mattithyahu (389)
• United States
11 May 07
I don't think that it was necessarily abolished, but it isn't really a law any more either. We are called to take sabbath and rest, but it isn't a regimented, "must be all day on Sunday" type thing any more.
angies
@angies (132)
• Australia
11 May 07
In Ephesians 2:15 By means of his flesh he abolished the enmity the law of commandments consisting in decrees that he might create the two peoples in union with himself into one new man and make peace.
mattithyahu
@mattithyahu (389)
• United States
11 May 07
Ok, what's your point with that verse? Matthew 5.17: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Jesus is the fulfillment of the legalistic law. We are to live as he commands.
angies
@angies (132)
• Australia
11 May 07
Yes we are, but the seventh day referred to in Genesis 2:2 was not merely a 24 hour day. Similarly the "Sabbath resting" that true christians share is not limited to a 24 hour day. By exercising faith and obeying the bible's counsel, they can enjoy it every day, and especially will they do so in God's new system.