Can you show me a script or Law in Genesis where God commanded Adam to keep the Sabbath? And which day is Sabbath according to your biblical findings? Moses 1st wrote the Law of Sabbath in [Exodus 20:11].
Hi tdion
Thanks for your post.
I am no expert and I cannot show you in Genesis where God commanded the keeping of the Sabbath. However Genesis 2 v2-3 describes the beginning of Sabbath observance and God sanctified it, making it Holy.
He then set the example by complying with its requirements so I cannot imagine that Adam and Eve would not observe it to honour God as their creator. That was one of the reasons for its inception. It just makes sense to me that they were expected to recognise and keep it.
Cain slew Abel and God punished him (Gen 4v12) but we don't find in Genesis, the giving of those ceremonial laws. In Gen 26v5 God explains that Abraham obeyed his voice, kept his charge, his commandments, his statutes and laws. It appears that Cain and Abraham knew laws existed although the giving of the is not recorded in Genesis.. The giving of the commandments to Israel at Mt Sinai was a fair bit later.
I believe God's people have kept the Sabbath from the time it was first given. I acknowledge that at Mt Sinai it was formalised, set in stone but there was the law not given to Jews and Gentiles?
Maybe you can help me identify who are the Jews … some claim the whole 10 tribes were, but I understood that one inherits from the maternal line so given Judah was Jewish and his mother was Leah, then the descendants of Reuben, Simeon and Levi must also be Jewish since they were full brothers of Judah.
Maybe anyone can become Jewish by going to the synagogue?
Okay, very nice! I like your thoughts and what you had to say about Sabbath. I basically wanted to see how you would handle my 1st question about Sabbath.
God indeed did not command the keeping of the Sabbath in Genesis, but Adam and Eve did receive the laws, else Eve couldn't have sinned against God. For Sin is the breaking of the laws.
"Jew" is a blood line that started with Jacob who's name was changed to Israel.
Judah is the 4th born son of Jacob, and the word Jew is the abbreviation of the word JUDAH. The holy bible tells us in the book of [numbers 1:18] that the bloodline comes from the father and not the mother. Judah and his 11 brother have their own pedigrees and their descendants are named after them.
As I just mentioned The descendants of Judah are the real Jews but due to the diaspora Levi and Benjamin are popularly also called Jews. Together they form the Southern 3 tribes of Israel. The remainder form the Northern Kingdom.
As for the modern Jews one would have to raise the question who their descendants were, since they can't be the children of Judah, based on the selection of their pedigree. Also, where are the other 11 tribes? And also, notice that they don't call themselves Israelites but Israeli.
Indeed Cain knew that killing his brother was a sin, and Abraham was a righteous man why God loved him.
Going to the synagogue does not make one a Jew, because It is not possible to convert from any religion to a bloodline.
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tdion
on Tue 03/17/20 06:20 PM