@Studyman
Again, I am happy to address your other adopted religious philosophies. And I get that you don't want to dwell on your own religion and must try to change the subject. But you are preaching that the Pharisees were trying to please God or earn salvation or "live by" as your own words declare, "the law of God, that they thought would give life to those who kept it".,
Again, I have addressed this very point many times over since I first met you, maybe around sixteen years ago on Tony Warren's Mountain Retreat forum. It could have been longer or less, I can no longer remember.
I will only say this ~ The Pharisees
just as you are now doing and others like you, use the word of God, and think they have eternal life by living by the scriptures,
which scriptures they freely reject, and set up
their own man made doctrines and commandments,
while they go through the motion of serving God. No different than men are doing today. The same man of sin sits in the temple of God declaring that he is God ~and
he does this by rejecting certain doctrines (election of pure grace, one of the main ones) that his flesh hates, and teaches a god that
his own depraved hearts thinks God should be "if" he was God.
This foundation of your religion is a false doctrine. I asked you several questions regarding this teaching you have adopted, and have been promoting to others for decades, but you didn't answer or even address even ONE of them.
Studyman, your broken record that you play over and over again does not deserved to be answered over and over again, so I forbear and move on.
I do not, nor have I ever observed the "Jewish Sabbath". Nor have I ever partook of the "Jews religion" that taught for doctrines the commandments of men and despised God's Judgments.
You observe the Sabbath, whether or not you refuse to call it the Jewish Sabbath means very little, the Lord's day is the day Christians accept as a day of meeting since the apostles.
Revelation 1:10
“I was in the Spirit
on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,”
It is on the FIRST day of week! Not on Saturday!
1 Corinthians 16:2
“Upon
the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as
God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.”
So Red, who made me and Caleb, Joshua, Zacharias, Simeon, Anna, David, believe they could do the Commandments of God?
Your god is not the God of those righteous men and women, because your teachings are not as they trusted in, not even close!
Psalms 32:2
“Blessed
is the man unto whom
the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit
there is no guile.”
Romans 4:6
“Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God
imputeth righteousness without works,”
I could spend hours here, but it would be to no profit on men like you. I will not cast God's pearls before swines, who sees no beauty in them.
Matthew 7:6
“Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
The meek and lowly Christ spoke those words and he would to you if he was here in our day.
Red, are free to eat pork, grill and sell porkchops, maggots, snails, whatever you choose to do. You can do so on God's Sabbaths to make money to buy golf clubs for the golf tournament next Sabbath. You, like Eve, and eat what you want, and can tell the Word of God to go pound sand all you want. You are "allowed" to "Yield Yourself" to whoever you choose. And you are the servant to whom ever that is.
I will eat and enjoy all things and will offer up thanksgiving to God who gives us all things richly to enjoy. I do not work on the Lord's day, (those that have to, I understand such as our law enforcement folks, and others) I use it to worship and learn more of the word of God so that I can please him and walk worthy of his holy calling. I do not buy and sell on the Lord's day.
"Red, are free to eat pork" ~ I know that I am, and I do not need a Pharisee to tell me that in a mockery manner, as though I'm sinning when I do.
Of course, your masters will not allow you to answer, not because I am held captive by this world's religions, but because you are Red. Are you happy in your darkness?
My Lord and Master told be to be ready to give to every man a reason of hope that lieth in me with meekness and fear.
1st Peter 3:15
“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and
be ready always to
give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:”
