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From: "Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net>
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Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 01:57:46 GMT
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Uncle Davey wrote:
>> Uncle Davey wrote:
>>> news:d64tb5$7uub$1@news3.infoave.net...
>>>> Are there any Sabbath keeping Christian on this site. Such as
>>>> Seventh Day Baptist, Church of God 7th Day, Seventh Day Adventist
>>>> or off shoots of WW Church of God.
>>>>
>>>> To everyone that keep it have a good Sabbath. To the rest have a
>>>> good day.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> You don't have to keep the seventh day to keep the sabbath. You can
>>> keep any day with a seven day interval, and still obey that
>>> commandment.
>>>
>> Exactly, just as you can make any rule in the book mean what you
>> want it too.
>>
>
> No, I am saying that 'sabbath' means simply 'rest', not 'seventh' or
> 'saturday' and we are in no way obligated to keep counting seven days
> from the creation of the world and always keep the seven days from
> exactly the day on which god rested. To think otherwise is
> counter-evangelical superstition.
>
> You can choose any regular day in the week for it, but you are
> promised a blessing if you rest from your work on that day, and
> sanctify it to God.
>
Then why bother with 7? why not 2 or once every 7000 years since a day is as
1000 years.
The whole silly idea comes from On the seventh day he rested and that was
the last day, not an arbitrary day. The last day of the week has been
Saturday since before the book was written.
But as usual the kilt swirls and *your* idea of what is true is the only
right one.
20,000 cults can't be wrong.
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