Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uwvax!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: crowe@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Daniel Crowe) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sabbath Shortened Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 89 03:48:57 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: City College Of New York Lines: 42 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In kilroy@mimsy.UUCP writes: >In some earlier articles (the referents to which I don't have, since they >expired here), David Buxton & I were discussing the Sabbath Day. Please excuse me, but I seem to have missed the previous dicussion, but I would like to contribute to the discussion. (I have been very busy trying to finish my doctorate and haven't always found time to read s.r.c before the articles expire.) >David has posted some articles explaining why he distinguishes the >Ten Commandments from the rest of the OT Law I believe that the distiction should be between the laws concerning animal sacrifices and the rest of the law. >I mentioned by reference only >two ordinances, Leviticus 19:19 and Exodus 20:9. I looked up these texts, but I am not certain which aspect of each is supposed to be problematic. >Given that the letter from the Council of Jerusalem does not mention >keeping the Sabbath day, but *does* contain orders to refrain from blood >and the meat of strangled animals, doesn't that muck up your division of >the OT Laws? >After all, they do not require Sabbath observance from the church at >Antioch, but they *do* re-impose some of the food rules -- by your method >of categorising the OT Laws, the Council has elevated mere ordinances to >a higher level than one of the Commandments. How do you reconcile that? Perhaps the letter does not mention Sabbath keeping because it was not an issue of contention whereas the issues that were addressed in the letter were controverted. As implied above, I believe that the food rules in question are still in effect. -- Daniel (God is my judge) | "Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to physics graduate student | speak and slow to become angry, for man's City College of New York | anger does not bring about the righteous crowe@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | life that God desires." (James 1:19-20,NIV)