Alpha wrote:This topic can deal with any of the ten commandments (read original post). There is just stronger emphasis to the Sabbath.
Anyway, you answered the question. They are part of the law of God, and we are to do them.
The dietary laws part of the law of God, and we are exempt from them. Circumcision is part of the law of God and we are exempt from circumcision. Daily sacrifices are part of the law of God and we are exempt from them.
The Sabbath was instituted as a day of rest not a day of worship. Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath (Mark 2:27) and as I posted more than once Paul addresses judging anyone based on observance of a Sabbath.
Exodus 20:8-11
8 "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.
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Deuteronomy 5:12-15
12'Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 13'Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15'And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day. NAS
There is no commandment in the 10 Commandments that the Jews were to worship God on a specific day.
Leviticus 23:1-3
23:1 The LORD spoke again to Moses, saying, 2 "Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, 'The Lord's appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations-- My appointed times are these: 3'For six days work may be done; but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings. NAS
The 7th day of the week leads off a list of "holy convocations" the Jews were to observe. In other words Alpha Sabbatarians have decided that Leviticus 23:3 is now part of the 10 Commandments, a position you seem to support.
Also, if you have read this whole thread the two commandments that Jesus said are the most important are not found in the 10 Commandments.
So what is you point?