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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: djconklin Ordered by Date |
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261 | what is the true worship day sun. or sat | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 24949 | ||
I saw Shepard's suppositions. I prefer concrete facts which the historians I mentioned stated. Shepard's thesis is inexplicable in the face of the facts that we do have. See also Dr. Bacchiocchi's dissertation that earned him a doctorate (summa cum laude) at the Pontifical Gregorian University and a gold medal from Pope Paul VI. You can read some of the chapters here: http://www.biblicalperspectives.com/books/sabbath_to_sunday/ |
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262 | Correcting the translation | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 24947 | ||
Clarification: on the ordination of women all I have is a bibliography; I never wrote anything up. | ||||||
263 | Do we play or pray? | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 24937 | ||
The phrase "a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day" refers to the annual, monthly, and weekly holy days." Actually, Paul is using a well-known OT formula for listing all of the ceremonial days. The Day of Atonement and the feast of Trumpets are not only ceremonial sabbaths they are also day of fasting so they wouldn't be under either of the first two items. The distinction also holds true in the Hebrew. For more information see my study at http://biblestudy.iwarp.com |
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264 | Do we play or pray? | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 24936 | ||
"In Colossians 2:16-17, Paul explicitly refers to the Sabbath as a shadow of Christ, which is no longer binding since the substance (Christ) has come." Grammatically speaking Paul is not contrasting shadow with body as is commonly assumed; what he is doing is saying "let no man judge ... but the body of Christ" (i.e., the church is to decide these matters). For more detail see my study at http://biblestudy.iwarp.com |
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265 | what is the true worship day sun. or sat | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 24934 | ||
The changeover started in Rome and Alexandria around 135 A.D. in reaction by the Christian community being confused as being Jewish during the Jewish revolt--the Romans didn't look too closely to see that there were fundamental differences. See the church historian (not the philosopher) Socrates Scholasticus (A.D. 305-438): "Such is the difference in the churches on the subject of fasts. Nor is there less variation in regard to religious assemblies. (112) For although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the sabbath(113) of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this." Ecclesiastical History. Book 5, chapter 22. at http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm and Salaminius Hermias Sozomen (died probably in 447 or 448): "Assemblies are not held in all churches on the same time or manner. The people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble together on the Sabbath, as well as on the first day of the week, which custom is never observed at Rome or at Alexandria." Ecclesiastical History, Book 7, chapter 19 at http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-02/TOC.htm |
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266 | Ten Commandments obsolete? | Rom 10:4 | djconklin | 24843 | ||
No. What he is saying is that Jesus is the "telos" of the law. "Telos" here is not temporal but goal.* Jesus is the goal of the law in two ways: 1) The motivating power for the law is love and God is love, love is the fulfillment of the law. 2) When we do sin we have an advocate with the Father; so the Law drives us to Jesus as our Savior--it shows us our need. *"How can we determine what Paul was trying to say in this verse? To decide such a scriptural controversy, one ideally should take into account three kinds of information: 1) The history of the way the passage in question has been interpreted by the Christian community through the centuries. 2) The ways in which a questionable word is used in other texts, especially other biblical texts with similar grammatical constructions. 3) The meaning of the passage in its immediate context and in the larger context of the book in which it appears. Fortunately, all three types of information about Romans 10:4 are available in the book Christ the End of the Law: Romans10.4 in Pauline Perspective (JSOT Press, Sheffield, England, 1985), the doctoral dissertation of Robert Badenas, an evangelical New Testament scholar. In this article, I will summarize Badenas findings, which present a clear resolution to our question about the meaning of the phrase "Christ is the end of the law." To put the current debate about the meaning of Romans 10:4 in context, it will be helpful to look at the history of how this verse has been understood by Christians. Dr. Badenas surveys this history in the first chapter of his book. It is especially interesting to see how Rom. 10:4 was explained by the early church fathers. Being much closer than we are to Paul's own setting, patristic sources may be more closely in touch with the concerns that led Paul to write his epistle to the Romans." From http://www.graceandknowledge.beliefnet.com/telos.html |
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267 | Why do we not keep the 7th day Sabbath | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 24837 | ||
"In Colossians 2:16-17, Paul explicitly refers to the Sabbath as a shadow of Christ, which is no longer binding since the substance (Christ) has come. It is quite clear in those verses that the weekly Sabbath is in view. The phrase "a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day" refers to the annual, monthly, and weekly holy days of the Jewish calendar (cf. 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 31:3; Ezekiel 45:17; Hosea 2:11)." The chronological progression mentioned above is being assumed. In fact, when you check all of the relevant verses, one should add 2 Chron. 8:13 and Neh. 10:33 to the list above, you find that it is only in the last two given above that the "order" is the same as in Col.2:16. All the rest are in reverse "order" and when looked at closely you find that (we'll use Hos. 2:11 as an example here) it is created artificially by dropping the "solemn feasts" at the end of the verse. We also need to remember that some of the ceremonial sabbaths were days of fasting (Day of Atonement and feast of Trumpets) thus it would not be proper to call them a feast. So, the seventh-day Sabbath isn't even being mentioned at all in Col. 2:16-17. Secondly, grammattically speaking Paul isn't contrasting body and shadow. The contrast is on who can do the judging: some outsider or the church ("the body of Christ")? |
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268 | Sabbath laws....do? or don't? | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 24794 | ||
The phrase "a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day" refers to the annual, monthly, and weekly holy days." Actually, Paul is using a well-known OT formula for listing all of the ceremonial days. The Day of Atonement and the feast of Trumpets are not only ceremonial sabbaths they are also day of fasting so they wouldn't be under either of the first two items. |
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269 | Sabbath laws....do? or don't? | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 24793 | ||
"In Colossians 2:16-17, Paul explicitly refers to the Sabbath as a shadow of Christ, which is no longer binding since the substance (Christ) has come." Grammatically speaking Paul is not contrasting shadow with body as is commonly assumed; what he is doing is saying "let no man judge ... but the body of Christ" (i.e., the church is to decide these matters). |
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270 | Correcting the translation | Col 2:16 | djconklin | 24751 | ||
In the Greek "food or drink" is actually "eating and drinking". In the Greek "in respect to" means "in that portion of". The "Sabbath day" here refers to the ceremonial sabbaths of the feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement (a day of fasting so it wouldn't becovered under "feast day"). For more details see my study at http://biblestudy.iwarp.com (spent two years looking at 182 sources) |
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