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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: what is the true worship day sun. or sat |
Bible Note: Shepard's reasoning was supposition; not pure Scripture. Bacchiocchi was awarded with a gold medal because he was summa cum laude--even they could recognize the effort that was put out forth even if they disagreed with what he find out. Since we have people from the past telling us that most Christians in their day (i.e., they wrote a contemporary account; not like the people of today who are attempting to study the past without being able to go back in time: "From all indications (admittedly not many) Sunday became the day of choice for early (Apostolic era Christian) to worship God.") were keeping the Sabbath and that Rome and Alexandria were not then why should we say otherwise? "I was always taught words in black and white are binding ..." This assumes that you know the Greek and Hebrew words that were written. Most people can only read English translations which leaves them wide open to the biases of the translators (whether they were conscious of them or not). For example, Paul, in Col. 2:16, under the guidance of the HS, wrote "en brosei kai en posei". In English that means "in eating and in drinking". In Col. 2:16 Paul uses an OT "formula" for describing the ceremonial days of worship (the various feasts, new moons, and ceremonial sabbaths that are days of fasting). But, too many anti-sabbatarians let their bias get in the way and assume instead that Paul was talking about the seventh-day Sabbath in the latter item. By studying the original languages you can know that he isn't. |