Galatians and Acts 15 are both about Circumcision, and do not mention changing the Sabbath to Sunday, or abrogating the Sabbath as the 4th Commandment. I searched the Book of Galatians, and did not find a reference to the sabbath day, please correct me if I am wrong.Bootstrap wrote:All Anabaptists accept the entire New Testament. The relationship between the Old Testament and New Testament really had to be worked out after Jesus rose again and the believers received the Holy Spirit. Galatians is really one of the clearest guides on this, especially when read together with Acts 15.JohnHurt wrote:This is a forum for Anabaptists. Many Anabaptists have kept the Sabbath.
Christ died on Passover, and was raised "three days and three nights later". Matt 12:40 Paul is correct that Christ is the first fruits from the dead, and I believe He was raised on the morrow after the Sabbath after Passover. Lev 23:10Bootstrap wrote:Like Adam, I don't have a problem with those who choose to celebrate the Jewish Sabbath. I find it a bit strange to keep the Jewish feasts but not Easter - I assume that you believe that Jesus died and rose again?
Easter is man-made, and different, and relies upon the First Council of Nicaea, and is commonly called "Computus". Here is where you can learn more about how Easter is calculated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus
It may appear to split hairs between Easter and First Fruits, and many times they do fall on the same day. But it is a question of who has the authority to set these dates.
I hold the teachings of Christ to be superior to all others. If Christ and Paul appear to disagree, then our understanding of Paul is flawed. But I never found that Paul taught against the Sabbath day. Just that we should not judge each other about the holy days, as they are a shadow of things to come.Bootstrap wrote: But I find it especially strange that you keep asking us "by what authority" we act like orthodox Christians. The Jewish authorities asked Jesus "by what authority" at least several times, and sometimes this seems to rhyme. For instance:
So let me try to imitate Jesus here. Was the teaching of Paul from heaven or from man? What about the teaching of the rest of the New Testament? Because the nub of the question is that we have very different beliefs about where this authority comes from. We also have very different beliefs about what the Bible is and the relationship between New Testament believers and the Old Testament.And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, and they said to him, “By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?” Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. Was the baptism of John from heaven or from man? Answer me.” And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was a prophet. So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”
Here is what Christ said about abrogating the Sabbath, or changing the Sabbath to another day:
Christ said the Sabbath Day did not change to Sunday, and that it would not pass from the law as long as heaven and earth are here. If Paul is saying something different, or if your church is saying something different, then I choose Christ over all others.Matthew 5:(17) Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
(18) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
(19) Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Here are the men who openly claim to have the power to change the Sabbath to Sunday:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath#S ... _First-day
Out of all of the Catholic doctrines that are openly taught in Protestant churches, the destruction and/or modification of the Sabbath from the 7th day to the 1st is the most painfully obvious.The Roman emperor Constantine the Great enacted the first civil law regarding Sunday observance in 321 AD. The law did not mention the Sabbath by name, but referred only to a day of rest on “the venerable day of the sun.”
On the venerable day of the sun let the magistrate and people residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country however, persons engaged in agricultural work may freely and lawfully continue their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable for grain growing or for vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper moment for such operations the bounty of heaven should be lost.[7]
An Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine:
Q. How prove you that the church hath power to command feasts and holy days?
A. By the very act of changing the Sabbath into Sunday, which Protestants allow of; and therefore they fondly contradict themselves, by keeping Sunday strictly, and breaking most other feasts commanded by the same church.
Q. How prove you that?
A. Because by keeping Sunday, they acknowledge the church’s power to ordain feasts, and to command them under sin; and by not keeping the rest [of the feasts] by her commanded, they again deny, in fact, the same power.[8]
The Augsburg Confession:
They [the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lord’s day, contrary to the decalogue, as it appears; neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of the Sabbath day. Great, they say, is the power and authority of the church, since it dispensed with one of the ten commandments.[9]
A Doctrinal Catechism,
Q. Have you any other way of proving that the Church has power to institute festivals of precept?
A. Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree with her. She could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority.[10]
Catholic Christian:
Q. Has the [Catholic] church power to make any alterations in the commandments of God?
A. ...Instead of the seventh day, and other festivals appointed by the old law, the church has prescribed the Sundays and holy days to be set apart for God’s worship; and these we are now obliged to keep in consequence of God’s commandment, instead of the ancient Sabbath.[11]
The Catechism of the Council of Trent:
The Church of God has thought it well to transfer the celebration and observance of the Sabbath to Sunday![12]
So the question that is to be asked, was the destruction of the Sabbath day, or the change of the Sabbath to Sunday, was this from heaven, or from man?
And if Christ said the Law, including the Sabbath, would never be destroyed, why did ye not then believe him?
But if your answer is, "We cannot tell", then I think we are finished talking about this issue.