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Re: Keeping the Sabbath was only for Israelites/Je
If you love your neighbor, does that release you from any obligation to, say, not bear false witness against them?
Or is it not rather that "love is the fulfilling of the law"? That is, love is what the commandments of God express? We are to love God, and our neighbor. The first four commandments explain HOW to love God, and the remaining six commandments tell us HOW to love our fellow man. All the various other commands in scripture are but illustrations and applications of those ten laws, applied to various situations and relations.
Can you love God while violating the second commandment? Or can you love God while at the same time you take his name in vain? Who could argue such a thing was possible?
Yet everybody brain-farts at the fourth commandment. THIS one is somehow different.
If God says something is HOLY, how can his people, who love him supremely, say that which is HOLY UNTO GOD is nothing? A thing to be ignored? A thing to be allegorized and explained away? So that our traditions may make void the word of God?
If you love your mama, and she says you ought to see her for her birthday, because it's special to her, would you tell her "I love you so therefore I'm going to ignore your birthday and purposefully NOT see you or visit you on that one day you value as a special day to celebrate your family?"
Really?
A reminder (this is the crux): ANY argument that concludes it is okay to NOT OBEY the fourth commandment will necessarily do the exact same to each of the other commandments. So just like being a Christian means you can love God and yet ignore the sabbath DAY, you can be a Christian and love God and yet ignore the prohibition against profaning his name or you can love your neighbor and yet you can get away with bearing false witness against them.
Last edited by Esaias; 03-02-2015 at 04:44 PM.
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