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 7/16/11 5:41 PM |
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Titus 1:10 KJV - For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith |
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 6/9/09 4:28 PM |
| Martin | | Texas | | | |
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Clearly, the moral substance of all ten commandments is binding in the sense that we cannot ignore any principles of righteousness that appear in the commandments of the Law. But if by 'binding' one means literally binding, then only nine are binding in that sense, since the fourth commandment is of a mixed character. It is ceremonial and moral at the same time (see Calvin,the Institutes). Its 'literal' keeping under the Old Covenant involved abstaining from all servile labor, including household tasks like lighting a fire in one's home, gathering sticks, cooking, etc. Very few Christians today keep Sunday with such strictness, nor should they feel obliged to, since the Lord's Day is clearly not identical in every way to the Old Testament Sabbath. Although the principles of righteousness enshrined in the Sabbath law find expression in our use of Sunday as a day of refreshment and worship, Sunday or the Lord's Day is not (contrary to the Westminster Confession) simply "the Sabbath Day changed to the first day of the week." The Lord's Day is a distinctive observance of the New Covenant, with its own distinctive characteristics. We keep it because of the example set by the apostolic churches, not because of an apostolic decree changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. |
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 1/5/07 1:16 AM |
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“ fly on the wall ”
The highlight of this particular debate was when Dr Bark quoted the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church:
"The identification of the pope with the anti-christ has frequently been made especially in the less educated circles of protestamtism."
I almost spat out my apple juice.
peace
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