What is the “Encounter God Retreat” (EGR)? Encounter God Retreat is a weekend program that promises to its participants a genuine encounter with God through audio-visual experiences and series of lectures. The Apologetics Index website traced its origin from The G12 Vision, a Pentecostal proselytization and indoctrination strategy developed by Cesar Castellanos and adopted by many churches all around the […]
He also says the disciples taught the Jewish believers to abandon the law because faith alone is sufficient. But there were Jews who were trying to add the law, which is already past in its season, to faith. He said that this action is a mark of an unsound and unbelieving mind. He reasoned that it is impractical to keep both of them together because the law voids faith, overthrows the Gospel, and endangers those who do so. However, if you keep faith alone, you have not only established law but also unhindered the promise but if you keep even just a portion of the law, you are obligated to keep all commandments therein.
And with the demonstration that the old law has been consummated, Tertulian also says that observance of the Sabbath “is demonstrated to be temporary” and so what Christians observe is not a weekly Sabbath, which is a Sabbath temporal, but a Sabbath eternal. Calling the weekly Sabbath human rather than divine, carnal rather than spiritual, merely a prefiguring, a foreshadowing, a type which points forward to the future or what is to come.
Thus, for this defender of the faith, Justin Martyr, weekly Sabbath observance of the Old Covenant is nothing but a type of the true rest found in no other but Christ, who is the new law, eternal and final. And under this promised new and trustworthy covenant, Christians are not idle weekly but perpetually keeping the true sabbaths of God for repenting of their sins.
For Ignatius, the believers follow the principle of Christianity because they are under the Law of Christ, they are observing the Lord’s day because the Sabbath has been discontinued. But the observance of the Lord’s day is not a continuation of the Sabbath which he finds to be part of an unprofitable, and ancient order of things.
Sabbath observance, as a shadow of Christ, already lived its usefulness. God provided something better. The people of God are no longer called to find rest on certain days but on a specific person. The people of God do not enjoy their rest only on a weekly basis anymore, but do so perpetually in their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Why then would anyone, in his right mind, give even just a foothold to anything that would enslave believers who are already set free, liberated by no other than Christ?
Unless the Sunday Sabbatharians no longer consider Sabbath days sacred, Sabbath definitely fits the category of “sacred days” and “special days”.
Bilang huling bahagi ng seryeng ito, pansamantala tayong magbalik-tanaw sa ating mga naunang tinalakay bago tayo dumako sa mga huling pananalita. Sa Ang Ipinagbabawal (Ika-10 Bahagi), napag-aralan natin kung ano ang limitasyon sa mga pwedeng ganaping papel o paglilingkod ng mga kababaihan sa iglesia at kung ano ang orihinal na diwa ng utos na pananahik sa kanila ( 1 Tim. […]
Ngayon naman ay dadako na tayo sa dalawang kontrobersyal na mga talata, ang 1 Timothy 2:12 na nagsabing “I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent” at ang 1 Corinthians 14:34, “Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, […]
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