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Originally Posted by Antipas

I’m going to ask questions on this in favor of Sabbath keeping in the hopes that you can address my concerns. God bless you Bro. Blume.

That’s an argument from silence so it really doesn’t hold much weight. We don’t read of him specifically not observing the Sabbath either.

In this case, silence says volumes. We need direct teachings before we are to engage in anything. Unless we are told to keep the sabbath, then why keep it?

If the bible was to lay out everything NOT TO DO, rather than ONLY relate WHAT TO DO, then the world could not contain the books that would have to be written. Therefore, common sense leaves us to conclude that we do not keep anything that the New Testament does not directly tell us to keep.

Catholics told me that babies were not said to not be baptized, so why preach against it?

What about the references regarding Paul speaking to the Gentiles on the Sabbath?

The context says they saw Paul do so to the Jews on the sabbath and simply asked him to do the same. It certainly does not show Paul kept sabbath.

Again, that’s an argument from silence.

Not really. It shows nothing about teaching sabbath was ever mentioned in the New Testament.

Sabbath keepers don’t believe that one serves God only one day a week. They believe in keeping the Ten Commandments, which leads them to observe the seventh day as commanded. Do you believe in keeping the Ten Commandments Bro. Blume?

I believe I keep all the commandments. And sabbath day was a shadow of actual sabbath rest which the New Testament mentions by way of the eternal rest, in Heb 4. SO I keep the body of Christ and not the Old Testament shadow of a day.

The Sabbath originated with creation and was only institutionalized under the Law. The Law required many legalistic requirements of the Sabbath, but these were to ensure that the Sabbath was kept; these laws didn’t establish the Sabbath.

Nothing was said about man keeping any sabbath before law. We only read God rested the seventh day, with no requirements for man to do the same until Law came.

Are we to keep the Ten Commandments? Yes or No?

Sure. But the 4th, between the first three that deal with God, and the remaining 6 that deal with man, the sabbath is unique. It alone of the commandments was a shadow of the body of Christ. I have the body so I keep the fourth, too.