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1 | A question about the Sabbath Day | Matt 5:17 | Alencon | 118969 | ||
I would like to hear opinions on an interpretation I have read regarding Mark 2:27. Mark 2:27 And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: This interpretation states that this relieves man of adherence to the commandment to keep the Sabbath Holy, effectively reducing the Ten Commandments to Nine. I had never heard this before. Can anyone provide guidance? |
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2 | A question about the Sabbath Day | Matt 5:17 | JCrichton | 118970 | ||
Hi, Alencon! True, Jesus brought changes to the Israelites and the world at large... These changes were not to circumvent the Law but to bring it to perfection: Matthew 5:43-48 'You have heard how it was said, You will love your neighbour and hate your enemy. But I say this to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you; so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the bad as well as the good, and sends down rain to fall on the upright and the wicked alike. For if you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Do not even the tax collectors do as much? And if you save your greetings for your brothers, are you doing anything exceptional? Do not even the gentiles do as much? You must therefore be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.' Does it sounds like Jesus is abolishing or perfecting the Law? We have to understand that the practices that were established in Israel had been straying from the true letter of the Law. The same people that objected to Jesus Christ's healing or forgiving the sins of the needy on the Sabbath day were the same people that allowed the vendors and money exchangers to install themselves about the Temple and to conduct their business during the Sabbath or any other Sacred Holy Day! Jesus' words were a simple correction and a reminder that the Sabbath was meant to be beneficial to man and not man to be a slave to the letter of the Law... These people questioned Jesus' authority; they refused to listen even to Scripture which proclaim Joshua's coming and living among His people! Ultimately, they were not interested in respecting the Law concerning the Sabbath--they broke it themselves whenever it profited them--they simply had no other way to confront Christ Jesus... feigning piety was their only recourse! Their insincerity was so evident that at one time Jesus publicly rebuked them: 'Alas for you, scribes and Pharisses, you hypocrites! You shut up the kingdom of Heaven in people's faces, neither going in yourselves nor allowing others to go in who want to. Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and anyone who becomes one you make twice as fit for hell as you are. Alas for you, blind guides! You say, "If anyone swears by the Temple, it has no force; but anyone who swears by the gold of the Temple is bound. Fools and blind! For which is of greater value, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred? ...Therefore, someone who swears by the altar is swearing by that and by everything on it. And someone who swears by the Temple is swearing by that and by the One who dwells in it... Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay your tithe of mint and dill and cummin and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law--justice, mercy, good faith! These you should have practised, those not neglected. You blind guides, straining out gnats and swallowing camels!... (Matthew 23:13-32--Due to space constrains some of the passages were skipped or left out; please read the complete listing!) Jesus did not abolish the Sabbath (day of rest); He pronounced liberty to do the will of our Father, specially on the Sabbath! God Bless! Angel |
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