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NASB | Isaiah 58:13 ¶ "If because of the sabbath, you turn your foot From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And call the sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD honorable, And honor it, desisting from your own ways, From seeking your own pleasure And speaking your own word, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Isaiah 58:13 ¶ "If you turn back your foot from [unnecessary travel on] the Sabbath, From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a [spiritual] delight, and the holy day of the LORD honorable, And honor it, not going your own way Or engaging in your own pleasure Or speaking your own [idle] words, |
Subject: Greetings to all on this Lord's Holy Day |
Bible Note: findrichard, I intend this post in kindness in hopes that we can perhaps reverse the effects of our initial disagreements in hopes for a happy long stay at these forums resulting in mutual edification. I hope you take the post as such. I want you to know that we here at these forums are not hostile towards differing opinions. If somebody were to come on these forums and to say with all sincerity that they had been raised and/or taught from a sabbatarian perspective and that they sincerely did not understand why it was that most of the Christian world felt that sunday was the appropriate day of worship and that they would love to hear how such a view point is balanced with scripture, then I think you would have found us to be a rather willing lot. Such an approach would have involved a very open admission to your own pressupositions and invited a polite discussion. However, in your original post to the forums you rather approached in a scolding tone and asked this, "Why do we ignore clear scripture and accept assumptions about other scripture as facts in order to validate custom?" Do you see how that question is quite a different thing? It is not the type of question asked when one wishes to sincerely learn or be informed, but is more akin to throwing down a challenge. Unfortunately, in our experience when individuals usually come with such an opening post, they have one issue they wish to fight about and have a very short and hostile stay. I hope this isn't the case with you, but it is the norm with such posters. Then your next broaching of the subject was again, not a sincere question seeking honest discussion, but rather a way of again bringing it up and posting scripture you felt we should hear. If you hold to this view then fine and well. If you wish to openly ask a question with regards to it then fine and well. But what has caused our reaction is that you have not done this, you have made these posts not in the spirit of discussion which is the intentions of these forums, but rather to simply post your view and then give verses why it is everybody should accept it. In other words in your posts regarding the sabbath you are asking nothing, only trying to teach where we have NOT asked. This is the issue. It leads only to conflict and that is why it is against the TOU. If simply this changes I think you will find us more than welcoming. In Christ, Beja |