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Originally Posted by BlackCalvinist Hey Bill - you actually have it nailed. They'd combine those verses alongside of 'The Sabbath is the only command given to Israel not repeated in the New Testament' to get out of Sabbath observance. | So, if one or more of the others weren't repeated in the NT, what would that mean to them. Let's pick one: Thou shalt not kill. If that weren't repeated somewhere in the NT...
I'm also wondering:
Rom 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
If I understand this verse correctly, the law makes all who are under the law guilty before God. If the law was just given to Israel, how is all the world under that law? |
For the record, I agree with you.
The 'hang-up' that the dispensationalist would have with that example, though, is that Gen. 9:5-6 and Cain murdering his brother would predate Sinai as a 'universal moral law' (likewise adultery and others). They'd jump back to the 'God only led Israel out of Egypt not the whole world, therefore Deut. 5 applies only to Israel and not everyone'.
There are some who try to have their cake and eat it too and say 'well, as long as you take A DAY (and reference Romans 13 here as giving us the freedom to choose "a" day for a Sabbath, also saying that there's great wisdom in doing so...).
The usual dispie anti-Sabbath reaction, though, isn't so much against the LBC II and WCF, but against Seventh-Day Adventism, since they're both usually fighting for the same crowd of people.
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Originally Posted by BlackCalvinist Slightly  , but did you happen to catch Truth For Life recently (Alistair Begg) ?
He just completed a series on the Sabbath. It answered a lot of my questions and actually convicted me quite a bit regarding my time management. Truth For Life: Daily Broadcasts |
No, never heard of Truth for Life. Thanks for the link. I'd like to listen sometime.[/quote]
You'll like him. He's a FUNNY guy, yet also very convicting. One of the rarer examples of a LARGE reformed church (reformed baptist). He's from Scotland originally.