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NASB | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day-- |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Colossians 2:16 ¶ Therefore let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or in regard to [the observance of] a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day. |
Subject: Why do we not keep the 7th day Sabbath |
Bible Note: You are right, we are on the same page now, but to clarify, everything we have been talking about up until now was about a Christian. About the motives and desires of a Christian, not an unbeliever. We began talking about you and what you are doing now, after your convertion. A whole different set of circumstances encompass a non-believer, but don't fool yourself, God still doesn't "need" to work in the hearts of anyone, there has to be an initial move on our part. You said it yourself, that God was in your head, but not in your heart. God may have nudged you in his direction, but I am sure it was you that made the first step. And it could have been a simple as asking "God are you really out there?" The father didn't go out to find the son in the story of the prodigal, but when he saw him on the road, he ran to meet him. The decision is ours and he is ready and willing to receive us. Anything other than this is a denile of the very thing that makes us special, more special than any of God's other creations, a free will. |