Brass balls, hard ass statement of the day by Koey Koala
Here we go around the mulberry bush again. Nowhere, not once, not any single place, not one scripture, not one command, not one whisper, not even a whimper or a hint by Jesus or any of the apostles tells us to keep Saturday sabbath, or Sunday sabbath for that matter. Yet, you sabbatarians (Sunday and Saturday) keep focusing on the non-essential, the silence, the non-commands, looking in all the little corners for even just a hint, that might support your Galatanism.
Is taking a Sabbath rest a principle like circumcision? Yes. Is it a command? No. Is there ANY mandate ANYWHERE for Christians to keep Saturday or Sunday? No.
The Gospel is not about any days, or food and drink, or any other physical things. Catholics focus on the physical bread and wine and a physical office of one man, Eastern Orthodox focus on their physical traditions, liberal Protestants focus on their physical social gospel, conservative Protestants focus on their physical touch-not taste-not rules, Pentecostals focus on their physical health-wealth/tongues junk, and Sabbatarians focus on a physical day. All of these things are supposedly Bible based, but way off base.
You are not better, no worse than the rest of the whole Christian church. You distract us from Jesus and HIS commands with silly rules of secondary, no not even tertiary importance.
Instead of wasting your time and mine with arguments about Sabbathing, why not focus on what Jesus actually taught! The disciples were commanded to teach what Jesus taught and so are we. When you command Sabbathing, you actually disobey Jesus, by commanding something he never taught. Yet you accuse the rest of the Church of disobedience for not keeping something that Jesus never taught. Hypocrisy! Blindness! Arrogance! Stupidity! Wake up to yourself man! I wish somebody had told me that 30 years ago! Then maybe I would not have wasted so much time on FRUITLESS legalism.
---Koey Koala bluntly telling telling fellow poster Insights to stop treating the seventh day Sabbath as an essential of Christian faith
hmmm...what bible do YOU read???
Posted by
brave anonymous poster |
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Same Bible you read. I and Koey just don't add XCG literature to dictate what it really says to us. Oh, by way, pro-Sabbath/Holy Day observance without the Armstrongism! :)
Posted by
Felix Taylor, Jr. |
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
well, I'm pro Sabbath/Holy Days, but not into "Armstrongism" either...
but, you don't see in the bible where Jesus taught us to keep the 7th day Sabbath??
and you don't see it as an essential of the Christian faith?
Posted by
brave anonymous poster |
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
No, I don't recognize the Sabbath as an essential of historic Christian faith. I don't criticize or judge anyone who wants to keep the Sabbath on the Saturday or Sunday---or who don't believe in any form of Sabbath keeping because the spiritual rest in Christ is what counts. Their understanding is between them and their God, not you nor me. The Sabbath IS NOT a requirement for salvation. To assert otherwise is simply an aggressive denial of Christ's perfect sacrifice. If one wants to keep the Sabbath, it is because he is saved not to supplement his salvation. Case closed!
Posted by
Felix Taylor, Jr. |
Thursday, January 25, 2007
thanks for clearing up your beliefs for me...
I would never try to force you, or anyone else to believe anything, basically because the bible says I can't do it no matter how hard I try....
I will say this, however....God has made provision for all of those folks in the world that believe as you do, because He so badly wants you to make it into His kingdom :-)
Posted by
brave anonymous poster |
Thursday, January 25, 2007