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good point.
1. Not one text in the NT says "the Sabbath is now kept on the first day of the week"
2. Not one text in the NT says "we now keep the first day of the week as the Lord's Day"
3. Not one text in the NT says "we meet for worship every week day 1"
4. Not one text in the NT says "We meet on week day 1 in honor of the resurrection on week day 1"
5. Not one text in the NT says "The Lord's day is on week day 1"
6. Not one text in the NT says "Ignore the Commandments of God"
7. Not one text in the NT says "ignore scripture, ignore what the Holy Spirit says"
Mark 7:7-13 condemns Jewish tradition that tries to run over one of the Commandments of God
What we DO Find in the NT is
1. "what matters is KEEPING the Commandments of God" 1 Cor 7:19
2. "the saints KEEP the Commandments of God AND their faith in Jesus" Rev 14:12
3. "this IS the Love of God that we KEEP His Commandments" 1 John 5:3
Where "The first commandment WITH a promise is - Honor your father and mother(Ex 20:12) " Eph 6:2
Acts 20: 25 “And indeed, now I know that you all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, will see my face no more. 26 Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God. 28 Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
For all eternity after the cross in the New Earth "from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL mankind come before Me to worship" Is 66:23
Maybe what you meant to say is "those texts are inconvenient in my POV".
I notice you reference no scripture at all in response to the texts above that post in affirmation of the OP -- making them "highly relevant" to the topic of this thread - as it turns out.,
Which scripture says was the 7th day.
Ex 20:
8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. ... 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
which comes directly from creation week in Gen 2
Gen 2: 2 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 done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
I don't see how this is even a tiny bit confusing to the reader.
No one denies that many church do that very thing. But that is not what scripture says about the Sabbath or the reason for observing it.
So fine - have all the man-made tradition one wishes, it still does not change the word of God on the topic of what the Sabbath is or what day it refers to .
This thread would be a good place to post those "scripture facts" in that case.
Until then -- we all can see the following facts clearly...
Page 60 – “God’s Law is the moral standard, and it is immutable”
- Not One Sabbath commandment in scripture (OT or NT) says “pick one day a week as your Sabbath”
- Not one instance of the phrase “one day in seven” – in the entire Bible
- Not one instance of the phrase “one day a week” – in the entire Bible
- God did not say “keep one day a week Holy” – He said “remember THE Sabbath to keep it holy… the seventh day IS the Sabbath of the LORD” Ex 20:8-11
- Michael Youssef’s teaching series on the Commandments admits that the Sabbath, as given by God in the Commandments was “from Friday evening to Saturday Evening”
- Not ONE NT text says “Sunday is the Sabbath” or “week day 1 is the Sabbath”
- Not ONE NT text says “week day one is the LORD’s day”
- Not ONE NT text says “we keep week day one instead of the Sabbath after the cross. “
- Not ONE NT text says “we meet for worship each week on week day 1 – called the Lord’s day”
- Youssef’s book “How to read the Bible like your life depended on it”
Mark 7:7-13 condemns Jewish tradition that tries to run over one of the Commandments of God
- Not one text in the NT says "the Sabbath is now kept on the first day of the week"
- Not one text in the NT says "we now keep the first day of the week as the Lord's Day"
- Not one text in the NT says "We meet on week day 1 in honor of the resurrection on week day 1"
- Not one text in the NT says "The Lord's day is on week day 1"
- Not one text in the NT says "Christians ignore the Commandments of God"
- Not one text in the NT says "ignore scripture, ignore what the Holy Spirit says, pay Attention to Christ instead". As if some conflict exists
This response is largely irrelevant because I was not addressing worshipping on the Sabbath but rather the propriety of worshipping on Sunday, the feast of the Resurrection. As it happens the early church celebrated liturgies on both days, and traditional churches continue to do so. During Lent, the Orthodox at present have Soul Saturdays, in which our relatives who are reposing in a Heavenly sabbath are prayed for, in addition to the Divine Liturgy on Sunday, which is naturally always focused on the Resurrection.
But as to your additional litany of bullet points, several of these are both wrong and/or inapplicable. For example, the Orthodox, and the Roman Catholics, and the traditional liturgical Protestants do not ignore the Commandments of God. We recognize Christ as our True God and we follow His instructions, including what He taught us about the Sabbath personally and through His apostle Paul.
I don’t understand why you chose this path of continued estrangement from ecumenical fellowship. No one would object to the Adventist church worshipping on Saturdays; contrary to what EGW asserted there is no conspiracy to make Saturday worship illegal, except in the Islamic world where worship on both Saturdays and Sundays is interfered with, and these are treated as normal business days, in order to interfere with both Christianity and Judaism, so in Islamic countries, what one finds is that Friday is the principle day of rest, and Thursday takes on some aspects of Saturday or Friday elsewhere. Also in Israel, for that matter, the business week runs Sunday through Thursday, since you have a Jewish majority and the second largest demographic are Muslims, but the situation is not as bad for the Christian community as it is in the Gulf States, where Christian expatriates are expected to worship on Friday in countries such as Oman or even to some extent in the U.A.E. But it is not the case that the other Christian denominations are plotting to forbid worship on Saturday, contrary to Ellen G White’s prophecy. This would directly interfere with our worship. Actually, blue laws limiting activities on Sunday have been being repealed in recent years, so the trend is away from that point.
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