Which Day is the Christian Sabbath?
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so which day?
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Don't u just love the early Church Fathers!
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yeah, i see where the debate lies
and this too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath
ok, i am going blind soon
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aww, dewplicate..
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Donch we all wish we have a time machineOriginally posted by ben1xy:Don't u just love the early Church Fathers! -
it's ok .. like u said.. going blind mahOriginally posted by laurence82:aww, dewplicate..
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i would like to have 1!! then i can like go see the future toto results!! muahhahaaOriginally posted by laurence82:Donch we all wish we have a time machine
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but the day according to Yeshua? which day did He celebrate? Afterall if we claim to be His followers, we should follow Him right?
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u nv read the things i posted ah? the Church Fathers would be able to give u better insight then i would.Originally posted by breytonhartge:but the day according to Yeshua? which day did He celebrate? Afterall if we claim to be His followers, we should follow Him right?
i am just a run-of-the-mill Catholic striving to serve our Lord -
i read... but which day did our Lord and Saviour celebrate the sabbath?Originally posted by ben1xy:u nv read the things i posted ah? the Church Fathers would be able to give u better insight then i would.
i am just a run-of-the-mill Catholic striving to serve our Lord -
YA....celebrate the wrong day and u go to hellOriginally posted by breytonhartge:i read... but which day did our Lord and Saviour celebrate the sabbath? -
stop being childish laOriginally posted by laoda99:YA....celebrate the wrong day and u go to hell -
It is better to behave like a child and can enter Heaven, then be hypocrites who acknowledged the Lord on the surface but still succumb to his sins underneath.....Originally posted by NT2:stop being childish la
Especially when these sins are said to be abomination in God's eyes.... -
When Is the Sabbath to Be Kept?
Our convention of starting a new day at midnight is an arbitrary, humanly devised practice. YHVH, who created the heavenly bodies and set them in motion to mark the passage of time (Genesis 1:14), counts time differently—from evening to evening.
We see this indicated in the creation account in Genesis 1. After dividing day from night, YHVH tells us that “the evening and the morning
were the first day” (verse 5). “Evening” is mentioned first, followed by “morning.” YHVH describes each day’s creation in similar terms (verses 8,
13, 19, 23, 31).
In the Bible, evening began when the sun went down (Joshua 8:29; 2 Chronicles 18:34; Nehemiah 13:19; Mark 1:32), and at that time a new day began. Regarding His Sabbaths, YHVH commands that they be observed
“from evening to evening” (Leviticus 23:32). This was the usual way at that
time of calculating the beginning and ending of days (Exodus 12:18 ).
In New Testament times, days were calculated the same way. Mark 1:32 records that, after the sun had set, marking the end of one Sabbath, crowds brought many ailing people to Yeshua to be healed, having waited until after the Sabbath to come to Him. The Gospel accounts also record that Joseph of Arimathea entombed YeshuasÂ’ body before evening to keep from working
on an approaching annual Sabbath (Matthew 27:57-60; Mark
15:42-46; Luke 23:50-54). YHVH, Creator of the Sabbath, determines when it begins and ends, and it was observed from sunset to sunset throughout the Bible. His Sabbath begins Friday evening at sunset and ends Saturday evening at sunset. -
On reading about keeping Shabbat, I came across an article by a pastor in Kenya.
Here are some exerpts of his thoughts, which I thought were interesting...
-"Most of the people that I know who attend a Sunday church do not keep any day holy to the Lord. They merely attend morning services and then do whatever secular activities they want the rest of the day."
-On the Sabbath, you don't have to invite Him, for His presence is already there, and it is He who is inviting you to join Him.
-I believe the sad truth is,- most Christians don't want to spend an entire day devoted to spiritual things. That is too long for them. After attending morning services they feel their "obligation" to God is fulfilled, so they are free to do the secular things which their hearts were already set on. That is why so many will not accept Sabbath observance. They don't see the value of having time for the spiritual things of God because their hearts and minds are on the natural things of this world. They see Sabbath observance as a curse and a burden rather than a blessing and a delight
If you want to read the full article, go here : You Keep Sabbath, We Keep Sunday