The Sabbath is the seventh day of the week. Ask yourself, how come the week is kept world over, in all countries, until this day. It doesn't matter how many times you change the date, the week days remain in the same order. Dates don't change the week days.PaulSacramento wrote: So, lets talk about the 10 commandments then.
Where in those 10 does it state WHICH date is the Sabbath?
Which commandment prohibits the consumption of any type of food or drink?
Which commandment prohibits eating food which is detrimental to your health?
If we knowingly trash our health, when better opportunities are available, we are defiling the temple of God.
You dishonor God by making your own choices above His - Law 1
You have made your ideas an idol - Law 2
You have taken the name of God in vain - Law 3
You disregard God as Creator - Law 4
You don't care about the life that came via your parents - Law 5
You are prepared to destroy the life force- what God says you ought to care about - Law 6
You are cheating your own health and therefor the rights of your wife to have a good looking and fit husband - Law 7
You are stealing away the health God gave you - Law 8
You are living a lie, because you claim to be godly - Law 9
You did the whole thing because you are covetous - Law 10
Do the ten commandments say anything against speeding in your car? Smoking cigarettes? Drinking alcohol?
The ten commandments cover every sin possible to man, in fact, every sin is recorded under one of these commandments.
If we break one, we break them all. So sin has no place in God, in His law, in heaven, and in His spirit.
Which sins should God allow? White lies, occasional indulgences, a little gossip, a sly remark, minor sarcasm, a little pride? Does not God hate the minor sins because they go unchallenged by those who profess godliness?
Don't worry, none is righteous, I am a good sample of a hypocrite, but what then is the Christian's hope if not relying on total renewal by Christ. He can and will do it.
We cannot afford to look at ourselves for any spirituality. The law is only there so that if we become disillusioned or confused or separate from Christ, we cannot kid ourselves, because the law is simple, eternal and clear, but of no help to sinners, and we have to go back to Him, for grace, protection and a new heart, that does not want to sin anymore.
You and I don't want to sin, and yet we often do. It is no reason to give up faith, or to imagine the ten commandments are missing or just given for Moses. If we could build our own righteousness, we'd have done it by now, but we can't. We can only live by faith and hope and love. And leave it up to God to change us.
Like King David, we love the law of God, because it sets the standard of God's dealings with us as well.
Law 1, He will not treat you, like you are somebody else.
Law 2, He will not make an image of you and look after it instead.
Law 3, He will never use your name in vain.
Law 4, He has guaranteed you undivided attention for one day a week, if you want it.
Law 5, He will not dishonor the means by which you came into life or are sustained by life.
Law 7, He will never betray you.
Law 8, He will never steal from you, but be generous to you.
Law 9, He will never gossip about you.
Law 10, He will never secretly wish you were somebody else.
That's just beautiful, isn't it?
