These where Done away at the cross, Like COL 3:14 tells us, And Was in Moses, hand writings, Was part of the things that pointed to Christ. The SABBATH GO's all the way back to Creation, And before there was sin, And the COMMANDMENT THAT JESUS wrote with HIS own finger, GOD tells us to keep the 7th day HOLY, The Catholic Church tells us to keep the day that they worship the sun on, GOD says it a working day , not the HOLY day' GOD bless as sees fit
This sounds like a Seventh Day Adventist position.
Colossians 2:16-17 places the weekly Sabbath in the same grouping as the annual festivals and new moons.
If anyone is concerned about this, I would read the book Sabbath in Christ by Dale Ratzlaff.
Seventh Day Adventists have invested a lot of time and effort into refutation of Colossians 2:16-17, however their explanations are incoherent. Basically they try to claim that the weekly Sabbath is not included in these verses, because they know if it is, their position regarding the Sabbath is incoherent.
I would also challenge them on this: their health care facilities are performing elective abortions on women. Why are they butchering babies, all the time being insistent that the Fourth Commandment applies, and that having services on the LORD's day is idolatry?
By the way, I used to be a Sabbathkeeper. I was raised in a Sabbathkeeper church, and I became a baptized member of it. It sounds like a correct position on a superficial level, however, upon closer scrutiny the position fails.
The issue is this: the Mosaic Law is no longer in effect. Certainly the moral aspects of the Law are pertinent to godly behavior, and thus are not something a real believer would want to violate. But, throwing days and diets into the moral category is incoherent.
And, they are being selective on their observance of days, and the manner they are observed as well.
By the way, the Sabbath issue can be deeply divisive. Some Sabbatarians consider non-observers to be unsaved. At the least, their organizations almost uniformly believe they represent the true faith.
In the organization I belonged to, I didn't consider anyone outside of the Church to be saved.
I also find it amusing that when I have taken a non-Sabbatarian position on forums, at different times SDAs have called me an undercover Jesuit priest
Some of them are really paranoid about that..they probably sit on the toilet reading Alexander Hislop's "Two Babylons" which is where a lot of this comes from. Hislop was not a Sabbatarian, but his view of Roman Catholicism corresponds pretty much with the SDA view of them.
Anyways, Colossians 2:16-17 pretty much destroys the Sabbathkeeper argument. Of course, the SDAs have created complicated, convoluted explanations on this, but they don't hold water.
Sabbath in Christ by Dale Ratzlaff would show you the problem with their exegesis of these verses.
And, generally when you delve deeper into Sabbathkeeper theology, you will find other issues..for instance, many SDAs are not truly Trinitarian. Their view of the Trinity is more like tri-theism.
Additionally, they do not believe that Jesus entered into the Holy of Holies until AD 1844. Apparently they haven't read the book of Hebrews.
