Re: A few more NT teasers

Michael Fisher (mwfisher@CTS.COM)
Sat, 10 May 1997 09:14:17 -0700

TRESCOW@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 97-05-10 10:27:37 EDT, you write:
>
> << Which is still not responsive to the question asked.

--->. Can you show us anywhere in the Bible where God Himself changed His mind
about the day of the Sabbath?

> That's the answer you're going to get. I gave a valid repsonse.
> I'm sorry if you don't like it.

Whether I "like" your answer or not is quite irrelevant, how is it a
"valid response"?

Yahweh himself sets up the Sabbath, and commands that it be kept.

"Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy" Ex.20:8

"For six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest,
even at plowing time and harvest." Ex. 34:21

"While the sons of Israel were in the wilderness, a man was caught
gathering wood on the Sabbath day. . .Yahweh said to Moses, "This man must be
put to death. The whole community must stone him outside the camp."
Num. 15:32,35

"Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy" Deut. 5:12

--->And all this, it would seem, must be considered in light of:

"Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye
diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord
your God which I command you" (Deut. 4:2).

-->Where is Peter, or anyone given authority to change Yahweh's
unalterable laws?

It is all very well to state that:

> Sunday has been made the official Sabbath by the Catholic Church, founded
> by Peter I.

But it does not explain where the authority to change an unalterable
law comes from. As noted, Jesus himself kept the Sabbath, and left no
instructions to the contrary.

So whence gets the Catholic Church, or anyone, the authority to alter a
commandment of God?

Does your response: "That's the answer you're going to get." Mean that
you recognize that the Catholic Church, and most of Christendom, are in
apostasy from one of the most important commandments of your God?--And you're
trying to avoid dealing with it?

The questions are fair questions. Do you have a fair answer?

>
> A bit defensive concerning your theology education. Study of God.

_What_ God?

_Which_ God?

_Whose_ God?

God _where_ ?

If there is "no evidence" of God, then _what_ is there to study?


>
> I understand what you mean by evidence. For the question concerning,
> including the NT, if I remember correctly from FRESHMEN YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL
> there are more than 72, total.

Says who?

Based on what?

And now I must study for a final today and one tomorrow.

Ciao.

-- 
	Michael Fisher, ET1/SS USN ret., law student	

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