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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. |
Bible Question (short): Sabbath or Sunday |
Question (full): I want to be sure and let all of you know that I do NOT intend to start a fight by asking this question. I do NOT intent to offend anybody with this question. I am simply seeking truth. I don’t want anybody who agrees with me to vehemently defend me. This is a perfectly honest question. So here’s my question. “Why Sunday?” Why do so many Christians go to church on Sunday? The Bible says, in Genesis 2:2,3 “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.” And then, in Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” If I were to ask you, “Which day does the Bible say to keep holy?” It would be very easy to point to Genesis 2:2,3 and Exodus 20:8. But was that day changed from the seventh day to the first day, when Jesus rose from the dead? Was it simply done away with by Jesus death on the cross? Or was the day just for the Jews? If the day was changed from the seventh to the first because that was the day when Jesus rose from the dead, where is that verse found in the Bible? The 4th commandment (the Sabbath commandment) is the longest, most detailed command of the Ten. If God, through Jesus was going to change it, wouldn’t it be irresponsible of Him not to let us know about the change? Wouldn’t it be like if the government changed which side of the road we were supposed to drive on and didn’t tell anyone? Given the nature of the 4th commandment, when Jesus changed the day you’d expect to see a Bible verse that at least said “Because Christ rose from the dead on the first day of the week, we now worship on Sunday.” But there is none. Why would God, and the apostles simply be silent on the issue? Colossians 2:16 says “let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths” But where’s the change? Where does “let no one judge you in…Sabbaths” become “Go to church on Sunday?” Wouldn’t it be the safer choice to simply follow the Bible guidelines and keep the seventh day holy? In Matthew 14:15 Jesus said “If you love Me, keep my commandments.” So were the Ten Commandments done away with because they were nailed to the cross? Did Jesus come to destroy the Law? If He did, then Matthew 5:17 would read like this “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to destroy.” That wouldn’t make any sense. No, what it DOES say is this “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly I say to you, TILL HEAVEN AND EARTH PASS AWAY, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the Law till ALL is fulfilled.” Matthew 5:17,18(emphasis mine). He also said “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father in heaven” Matthew 7:21. Were all of the Ten Commandments nailed to the cross? Does that mean that God now allows me to murder, commit adultery, lie, covet, steal, take His name in vain, pray to idols, dishonor my parents, worship other gods? Which of the other nine is it okay to get rid of? The answer has to be none. And which of the Ten did we forget? The only one that starts out with the word “Remember…”. That seems kind of ironic. So was the seventh day just for the Jews? Genesis 2:2,3 says that God sanctified (or made holy) the seventh day, AT CREATION. In Mark 2:27, Jesus says that “The Sabbath was made for man…” Again, when was the Sabbath made? AT CREATION. And who was the only man alive at that time? Adam, the father of us all. The Jews did not even come into being until about 2000 years later. Was God’s Law instituted at Mount Sinai? I don’t think so. Genesis 39:9 tells us that when Joseph was tempted to sleep with his master’s wife, he asked her “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?” That, by the way is the seventh commandment. How did Joseph know about the commandments long before Sinai? Because his great grandfather knew about them. In Genesis 26:5 God tells Abraham that He will bless him because he “…obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” Now just suppose you’re standing before God and He asks you why you went against His will and kept the Seventh day holy, and not the first day. What are you going to say in your defense? “Well… I read in Genesis that You sanctified the seventh day and in Exodus that I should keep the Seventh day holy, and I read where all throughout the Old Testament people got in trouble for not keeping it holy. I read where Jesus kept the Sabbath as was His custom. I read in Revelation 12:17 that in the end times, the people who have the testimony of Jesus Christ also keep the Commandments of God. (see also Rev. 14:12)” Your thoughts are appreciated. |
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