If a Sabbath is forced, Will you keep Sunday holy?

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Rosemaryx

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Maybe it is a fruit that we will only see on the trees in the new heaven , when all is restored back to the likeness of Eden...
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The law exists to condemn those under it, those not covered by grace through faith.
Im not out to offend im just trying to get Christians views on this because there is alot of controversy. I was reading yalls posts talking to seventh day adventist Christian and he believes he is still to keep seventh day Sabbath in gods commandment to Israel which god said is a covenant for all their generations for ever. His case is that we are all one body of Christ so are we not of same covenant.
 

posthuman

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Psalms 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Jesus says if you love me keep my commandments
David is talking about all of the law in Psalm 1. he's not only talking about the 10 commandments - he's talking about the arbitrary distinctions humans made thousands of years later, {ceremonial, moral, civil}, as though it is not divided at all, but all one law. he doesn't say "i delight in the moral aspects of the inflated law of the Lord of which only 3% are actually important" -- he says, "the law"

a fun exercise is to read the NT & list the commandments Jesus actually gave. every imperative statement, which in context He gives to people who believe He is God.
 

posthuman

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In Adam all die, one could say Eve is part of All, that way through Christ, she too could live
he named her Woman, because she was taken out of man. she is made of him.

when he heard the promise of redemption & salvation God made in cursing Satan, he changed his wife's name from Woman to Eve - Mother of all Living, because he understood. at this, God covered them both with the work of His own hands, and declared that Adam had become like one of "The Us" -- like one of the persons of God.

it may be more precise to say, Woman is a part of Adam; Eve is a part of the redeemed man. :)
 

posthuman

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well, creation took seven days.
adam and eve were created on day 5 or 6, and then sometime after that, is what happened, which we now know, is history.
how long did it take Adam to give a name to every living soul?
how many days did this take -- what day did it occur on?
was Adam only 2 days old when he did this?

how long was Adam in "a deep sleep" ?
 
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did i say apple?
sorry, it was a fig, or was it a banana, maybe even a grape.
well, growing up, i was told it was an apple, so it seems i didn't think of another fruit when i typed apple.
my sincerest apologies for not being right, or for only guessing.
 
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how long did it take Adam to give a name to every living soul?
how many days did this take -- what day did it occur on?

was Adam only 2 days old when he did this?

how long was Adam in "a deep sleep" ?
can i not guess the number of days he was alive for, before that infamous fall ?
 
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We have no idea, except that subsequent to being expelled from the garden,
and he and Eve began to have children, we are told Adam's age at the time
of the birth of his third son, Seth.
When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son
in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
Genesis 3:5
thats why i am asking.
 
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he named her Woman, because she was taken out of man. she is made of him.

when he heard the promise of redemption & salvation God made in cursing Satan, he changed his wife's name from Woman to Eve - Mother of all Living, because he understood. at this, God covered them both with the work of His own hands, and declared that Adam had become like one of "The Us" -- like one of the persons of God.

it may be more precise to say, Woman is a part of Adam; Eve is a part of the redeemed man. :)
Eve is from Adam's rib, or do i have that wrong?
 
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of course -- but i don't see that the Bible ever makes a distinction between 'ceremonial/civil/moral' laws -- it always calls the law, "the law" -- the law of the covenant God made with Israel. the whole thing. when Jesus says 'not one jot or tittle will pass away..' He says this of "the law" -- which includes every bit of it.

in Romans 7 Paul says, we have died with Christ so that we can belong to a new husband, to Him. he says, having died, the law doesn't have any more jurisdiction over us. that's not just talking about ceremonial aspects or civil aspects of the things written in the law, but about all of it -- he doesn't use any language indicating that some of the law, we're under, even though we have died with respect to it. he says we're "not under law" but grace. grace doesn't only cover ceremonial transgression, but all sin, and you can't prosecute a dead man for theft any more than you can prosecute a dead man for mistakes in filing his paperwork.

in Christ God has set us free from all condemnation, if we walk in Him. God's righteousness doesn't change - righteousness is righteousness - so what is good in His sight is still what is good in His sight. but i don't live now trying not to commit adultery or covet 'because a commandment says i shouldn't' but because both of those things remain wrong whether there is a letter engraved in stone saying so or not. because doing those things is contrary to love, to the way that He loved us.

i'm sorry i wasn't more gentle in our previous conversation; i should be. i've been on this forum for several years now and as you might imagine, the same topics and arguments come up frequently. sometimes i read them and forget that it's not actually the same people i've discussed all this with over and over, but new people i haven't met before -- so i act like we've already been through all this 100 times but in reality we've not lol

essentially my position is this: we have died, and our lives are hid in Christ. being dead, not one jot or tittle of the law ((the whole law)) has to pass away in order for it not to have any more jurisdiction over us. the power of sin is the law -- but the law has no more power over us; sin has no more power over us to be our master or to condemn us.
this doesn't mean we should freely live our lives in contradiction to the righteousness described in the law, but it does mean that we're not under these commandments. what we are commanded, is to follow Him, walking in love, humbly, loving mercy and justice. the essential qualities of mercy and justice and goodness haven't changed, but the priesthood, the law, all these things have passed away, being replaced by a new and better covenant -- which is the unfolding of the promises to Abraham through faith, not the distillation of the covenant made with Israel under Moses.
I see the truth in alot of what you said and you have to understand where im coming from the reason there are so many offshoots of Christianity is because there are so many false doctrines so I listen to as many pastors and denominations as I can that teach strictly from Gods word as supreme authority so I can know the truth and not be deceived by the enemy's lies. I think one of the things the enemy is hardest at work is trying to infuse lies into gospel. I've only been studying word for about seven years so I have alot to learn but just because someone tries to pass there ideologies off to me as truth I am leary for every truth there is sure to be a false truth.
 

posthuman

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Maybe it was a mango. Actually, the bible does not explicitly state what type of fruit was eaten. For all that we know it could've been a pistachio.
i think there is evidence that it was like a fig.