RE: Coming to a harsh conclusion
May 25, 2015 at 5:34 am
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2015 at 5:45 am by Randy Carson.)
(May 24, 2015 at 11:33 pm)Losty Wrote:(May 24, 2015 at 9:39 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: I did. Are you wondering why we are no longer required to obey the laws of the Old Testament?
We are bound to the moral laws (think Ten Commandments here), but the dietary and other laws are no longer applicable.
What!? You are not required to obey the laws of the Old Testament?? Someone forgot to tell Jesus!! "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest part or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place." (Matthew 5:17 NAB)
When I was a theist, we were taught that people like you were lukewarm Christians. God would spit you away. We were told that lukewarm Christians were even more disgusting to god that non believers.
Jesus fulfilled the law and the prophets. The Greek word translated "fulfill" means "to make complete". Thus, the New Covenant includes and concludes the Old Covenant; it both perfects it and transforms it. While sacrificial laws of the OT expired with the sacrifice of Jesus, the moral law (the Ten Commandments, etc.) was retained and refined.
(May 24, 2015 at 11:40 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(May 24, 2015 at 2:14 pm)dyresand Wrote: Mixed fabrics and eating shrimp and working on sunday i'm just scratching the surface. Also preachers they are working on sunday, republicunt's they are working on sunday.
So pretty much were all going to hell for one thing or another.
Actually according to the bible the sabbath is on Saturday. So people going to Church on Sunday aren't keeping holy the Sabbath anyway. That's in the 10 commandments. It's hell for them!
The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: "The Church celebrates the day of Christ’s Resurrection on the ‘eighth day,’ Sunday, which is rightly called the Lord’s Day" (CCC 2191).
The early Church did not move the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. Instead "The Sabbath, which represented the completion of the first creation, has been replaced by Sunday, which recalls the new creation inaugurated by the Resurrection of Christ" (CCC 2190). Sunday is the day Catholics are bound to keep, not Saturday.
