Religious Cults & False Prophets~ Discussions and DebatesWhich SabbathEndurance, apparently you have not taken the time necessary to read and understand my post. During His earthly ministry Jesus was teaching only the Jews. I did address the Law in my post, and if you are not making sacrifices to atone for your sins you are breaking the Law under the Old Covenant, and if you are teaching others they do not need to perform animal sacrifices you are teaching others to break the Law. Have you read the 1st 5 books of the Bible, which includes the Law as given to Moses. Are you keeping the letter of the Law, which is what you are proposing with keeping the Sabbath as a holy convocation.
Do I teach the inerrancy and total accuracy of the Bible, which was inspired by the Holy Spirit? Yes, and the Holy Spirit in Acts 15 did not include keeping the Sabbath as an essential for gentiles. Also if you accept the inerrancy of the Bible and have studied Romans and Hebrews all your questions can be anwered concerning the Law and the Old Covenant.
God changed the Law when He instituted the New Covenant with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, so to answer your question concerning the great commandment, following the precepts He gave through the Holy Spirit in the New Covenant is loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind. Jeremiah 31:30-34
30 "But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge. 31 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, "declares the LORD. 33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 "And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
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Hebrews 8
8:1 Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2 a minister in the sanctuary, and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man. 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; hence it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. 4 Now if He were on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since there are those who offer the gifts according to the Law; 5 who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses was warned by God when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for, "See," He says, "that you make all things according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain." 6 But now He has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which has been enacted on better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them, He says,
"Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, When I will effect a new covenant With the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers On the day when I took them by the hand To lead them out of the land of Egypt; For they did not continue in My covenant, And I did not care for them, says the Lord. 10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of IsraelAfter those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws into their minds,And I will write them upon their hearts.And I will be their God, And they shall be My people. 11 "And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen, And everyone his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' For all shall know Me, From the least to the greatest of them. 12 "For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And I will remember their sins no more."
13 When He said, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.
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