Sabbath

That's an interesting point!

We can say that all humans since the time of Adam and Eve have the knowledge of Good and Evil.

I think an interesting thing though, is that we don't see the Sabbath being talked about prior to Exodus but we do see lots of other evils happening. Does this mean that even in places like Sodom they were keeping the Sabbath?

Also if we look at cultures around the world, we can find examples in every culture of taboos about murder and sexuality. But I don't think we can find those same taboos about a weekly Sabbath. Though I'm not completely sure, I could be wrong.

We have a lot in common,
JaumeJ!
I too have been in many denominations and do not currently consider myself part of any particular denomination. And I definitely agree with "If a person exposes anyone or any group that is false, it is a service to the truth..."!

That seems like that would be a strange situation.

Are you saying that Adam handed down through the generations the Commandment not to make a treaty with people from ammon or Moab?

My father changed jobs a lot as a truck driver in the 1940's and 50's so we inturn moved many times . I wuld go to the churchnearest my home at the time. My father said I could go to any church as long as it was not Jewish or Catholic, so I went to the church nearest my home...…..the one with a cross that is.

In the 1950's I heard hatred preached from pulpits in all of the denominations I atened, and would say to my self, "Jesus loves those Jews, Jesus loves thos "negros." I say black now…..Afro-American does not make a lot of sense to me since there are many cuntries there, and the peoples vary a lot.

From my earliest recollectioñ going to Bible school summers I had but one theology, from mychildhood song, "Jesus Loves Me," and that i what I always bsed my faith upong……….until the Holy Spirit entered into me and taught me all I need know……..just as He does with all who believe.....and so it goes. Praise Jesus Chrsit, Yeshua...……..amen. Thanks for the attention.

Gen 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Adam knew God and the creation history so he was aware that the Seventh day was set aside by our Father.

The glaring, obvious difference between banishing Cain because he refused to accept God's Word as truth, and observing God's Holy Sabbath God made for man, is the Biblical truth that God is the Almighty Judge, not you or Post. God is also the Almighty Father, which commanded His People not only to obey our father, but also to honor HIM by following His instruction regarding the seventh day of the Week, and Sabbaths of His Choosing. "These are MY Feasts".

I am not aware that my Father commanded me to "banish" anyone. That judgment is His to make. I am to agree with His judgment, so I will not be helping Cain further his religion should he, or someone else who rejects God's Word, show up. God's Judgment is OK with me.

I also recognize that Cain was "banished" for refusing to accept God's definition of "Good" and that is why he was not accepted. So to me, only a deceived person would follow in Cain's footsteps regarding following God's instructions, which includes creating images of God in the likeness of man,, stealing, and/or the treatment of God's Holy Sabbath.

So you and Post's "Logic" that to keep the Sabbath is the same as "banishing" people doesn't make any sense.

John 10:
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

Matt. 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Do all humans have the ability to "Lay down our life" in trust of the Christ? Can a man take my life from me? Or is it my own choices which determine my fate? And does this not give us the power to "choose" life?

Duet. 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Probably better than anyone since he, Adam got to celebrate the first of many with God himself. That would have been fabulous to be able to walk and talk with our God.

Did Adam know that God rested on that 7th Day?

Would you agree that The Seventh-Day Sabbath is one of the things that are a shadow? I think when the Colossians heard this they probably associated it in their mind with Plato's allegory of the cave, which was probably Paul's intent.

Plato, very impressive. I believe , since Noah knew the differences of clean and unclean animals that the historic premis of oral tradition must be valid. Of course Adam knw the entre history, very short, of God and His creation, for Adam formed part of it, and YES, he would have known about the seventh day being made separate from the other common days.

Noah knew. There has always been oral tradtition of the history of this creation. If you read the Old Testament you will observe many of these references. God bless you.....and please do not bring up scholars, historians or philosophers as evidence of anything...…..I beieve the Book.

I would love to have the authority to give you other of the likes, the positive ones of course.

"I am not aware that my Father commanded me to "banish" anyone. "

Exactly! Yet we see that God banished Cain. Now, I am not aware that at the time that God rests on the 7th Day following the six days of creation that He commands humans to do the same.

The logic at issue is this, is God doing something the same as a command to do it?

I would say the no, it is not. We could find many other examples I think of God doing something which does not amount to a command for us to do the same thing.

What would lead us to believe that Adam celebrated the Sabbath with God? As the story of the garden is presented, Adam and Eve spend time apart from God. That's why they can hear God walking in the cool of the day after they have eaten the fruit.

I believe the book also! And to properly understand the book, I think it's important to know about the culture in which the book was written.

Today if we talk about something like leaving bread crumbs behind for a trail we know that we are referring to Hansel and Gretel. Or if we say that's just sour grapes, we know it's a reference to an ancient fable.

So the people in colossae would likely have associated Plato's allegory of the cave with Paul's talking about this being a shadow and that being the reality.

I agree that God tells Noah to take 7 couples of clean animals but only 1 couple of unclean. At least I think those are the numbers.

But does the oral tradition include things like making treaties with people from Moab or Amman?

We as people enjoy making and creating things. For example we paint a room in our house being creative... Now don't tell me that you don't spend time in that room after you have gone to the trouble to make it a place to be comfortable and beautiful.

To me it would be the same at God's creation He created man and then He made the Sabbath as a crowning touch to His week of creation now do you truly believe in your heart that God did not spend that time with all He created during that week or He went off to some dark corner and celebrated by Himself?

I do not believe it necessary for the Father or His Children to consult the cultures of His creation; I actually I believe He was is and will be to the end totally knowlegeable of man.

The written word kills but the Holy Spirit gives life......if the Holy Spirit is not present when one studies the Word, it is dath.

AS far as I have learned from Oral tradition of oral trdition, until the people of this world separated themselves from the Living God, they had a dialogue, therefore they know His wishes and obeyed them. It was not until Abraham was one of the last who did not pull aaway from God that the remainder of mankind lost track of God's desires.

If God set's something apart and makes it Holy, or if God judges something as Evil or Unholy, is it a Command? Well, you are not obligated to "believe" God Dan, and you are also not obligated to obey His definition of Holy or Evil, Good or Bad.

You are free to make your own judgments and create your own holy. Many men do as the Bile records.

But Your "belief" or your "judgments" are nothing by a menstrual pad in the eyes of the Word which became Flesh, according to His Word. You may have been convinced that you are already immortal, already saved, as was Eve. But your "belief" doesn't have one iota of effect on God's Word or His Truth. Your life is a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow. You have this life to "believe" God or not. Many will call Him Lord, Lord, they will do all sorts of their version of "good" things all in His Name. But if you reject what God created as Holy and "good" and replaced it with your religious traditions, your own imaginations of the mind, then you are Cain just like those Jesus warned about in Matthew 7.

3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Men can either "Believe" in the Works of the Lord of the Sabbath, The word which became Flesh who created "ALL THINGS" or you don't.

I don't believe there is any other way but through Him.

we see that when Adam and Eve are talking to the serpent God doesn't seem to be around. They don't come in contact with God until the cool of the day when they hear him walking in the garden and they hide themselves in the trees. so it does sound like God did not spend all of his time with Adam and Eve, there were times when they were separate.

I think the crowning Touch of creation is the sixth day because it is after that, after God makes humans that he says it is very good. I think in previous days he says it's just good.

And God does spend some time with Adam because we know that after he forms him out of the ground he talks with him bring some of the various animals to name and makes Eve out of Adam.