Comments on: The Powerful US Conference of Catholic Bishops Claims that the Best Way to Honor Laudato Si’ is to Implement Sunday Rest for the Good of the Environment and Society https://adventmessenger.org/the-powerful-us-conference-of-catholic-bishops-claims-that-the-best-way-to-honor-laudato-si-is-to-implement-sunday-rest-for-the-good-of-the-environment-and-society/ News and commentary from a Biblical world view on current events, top stories, social trends and political and religious events. Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:47:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Adam Gillard https://adventmessenger.org/the-powerful-us-conference-of-catholic-bishops-claims-that-the-best-way-to-honor-laudato-si-is-to-implement-sunday-rest-for-the-good-of-the-environment-and-society/comment-page-1/#comment-67366 Wed, 27 Nov 2024 19:47:46 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=21652#comment-67366 In John 5, Jesus was accused of breaking the Sabbath. Jesus legal defense was NOT to say that He had merely broken the manmade traditions. His legal defence was to point out that His Father was no longer in His post 6-day rest mode!!! He had gotten back to work on a new creation! According to Exodus 20:11 the 7th day application of the unchangeable Sabbath Commandment binds the old man from the old Adam who is part of the 6 day creation. But for Christians the old man has died, been discarded, and had been replaced with a new creation complete in a new Adam not created during the 6 day creation. So there is an old creation and a new creation. How does the unchangeable Sabbath Commandment apply to a different creation. The reasoning in Exodus 20:11 provides the answer. The creative rest immediately following the given round of creation, is the Sabbath rest that binds that creation. For Christians the new creation was completed early on Resurrection Sunday and Resurrection Sunday is the first day of creative rest following the completion of the new creation. Hence Sunday rest. Now what about the “keeping it holy” aspect? The old man had to rely on the special weekly Sabbath sacrifices (Numbers 28) to patch over their fallen condition. Jesus had given us the substance form of that by meeting corporately with His Church late on Resurrection Sunday and presiding over the Mass (Luke 24).

Before God ended His perpetual old creative rest, the old man in the old Adam periodically plugged into Gods ongoing old creative rest every seventh day *because* the seventh day was the first day of creative rest following the completion of that creative work that they were a part of. Moreover, because of the fall, the old man was unable to keep the Sabbath holy. Hence they had to merely rest and rely on the special Sabbath sacrifices (or what they were pointing to) for God to sanctify them.

Since then, God has ceased from His long period of creative rest and got back to creative work again. The old man in the old Adam has died with Christ through the sacrament of baptism (repent and be baptized FOR the remission of sins..) and a new man in a new Adam (Jesus clothed in humanity) has been created through participating in Christs resurrection through baptism. The first day of this new creative rest following the completion of the new creation (is the resurrection of Jesus) is Sunday. If you take the internal reasoning God Himself gives within the Sabbath Commandment, and apply it to the new creation, you of course get Sunday. Moreover, keeping it holy involves the Eucharist where Christ gives Himself to us and assimilates us into His body which He will raise up at the last day. Sunday without the Eucharist is empty just like the the seventh day to the old man without God was empty.

]]> By: John S. https://adventmessenger.org/the-powerful-us-conference-of-catholic-bishops-claims-that-the-best-way-to-honor-laudato-si-is-to-implement-sunday-rest-for-the-good-of-the-environment-and-society/comment-page-1/#comment-66964 Fri, 22 Nov 2024 04:17:05 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=21652#comment-66964 In Washington, DC, the USCCB is the Catholic church’s lobbying group. They are there to exert pressure on our legislators to enact legislation that embraces Catholic principles.

]]> By: Marie https://adventmessenger.org/the-powerful-us-conference-of-catholic-bishops-claims-that-the-best-way-to-honor-laudato-si-is-to-implement-sunday-rest-for-the-good-of-the-environment-and-society/comment-page-1/#comment-66963 Fri, 22 Nov 2024 04:14:43 +0000 https://adventmessenger.org/?p=21652#comment-66963 Protestants and Catholics will join forces to get the Sunday law passed.

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