Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: rb65@prism.gatech.edu (Butera, Robert J.) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: the Sabbath Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 03:16:16 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute - ESML Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Oncw again we're talking about which OT laws to observe. Though I can't speak for the Jewish people (and which branch their in) the early church had to deal with the problem of Gentiles who were unfamiliar with the law. The apostles and early church elders wrote to the Gentiles about this, telling them: "For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication." Acts 14:28-29 I could interpret this passage as meaning that this is all that I, as a Gentile, have to accept from Old Testament Law. Extending this argument, does this mean don't worry about keeping the Sabbath? Or is there New Testament references to keeping the Sabbath too? -- Robert J. Butera, Jr. Georgia Tech Research Institute Internet: rb65@prism.gatech.edu "My opinions, not Georgia Tech's"