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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
In Galatians 4:10 Paul is directing the readers to not being contentious over the calendar. From what we are reading in Galatians and the other epistles is that the different rabbinical schools could of been making issue concerning the calendar. Yet, the issue wasn't about the seventh day. Romans 14:5 Paul asks that their disputes concerning the calendar be settled in their own minds. while in Colossians 2:16 Paul speaks of the calendar not to be a point of judgement, that Christ had brought all under the power of the cross, and therefore the calendar was a shadow and that the shadow stemmed from the Body which is Christ's. Still my question is, concerning the seventh day isn't it part of the moral law? |
I think it's more simple than that.
Gal 3 says the law was an elementary schoolmaster to bring Israel to Jesus. Once Jesus arrived, the day of graduation from the school took place and Paul essentially said, "If we Israelites were not supposed to be under a schoolmaster after Christ arrived, why are you saved Gentiles putting yourselves under our schoolmaster? Stop keeping sabbaths and experience the rest that the sabbath day foreshadowed."