[ndigila]

It's probably a good idea to end this discussion since we're looping in circles.

Originally Posted by grip_daddy

Ndigila,

So there are confusion in the historical evidences because everyone wants to believe what their fathers, or pastors or whoever, tell them.

Yes. Those who deny Sunday worship as a Christian practice are forced to believe that the church fell into apostasy as soon as the apostles died and never recovered. People need to understand that the disciple's main focus was to establish churches with very competent people capable of being able to teach as well as preserve Christ's teachings for future generations, and not to write stuff down. Saying the church fell into apostasy as soon as the apostles died is a huge insult, not only to the church but also to the Apostles and to Jesus. Many people have provided very flawed arguments as to why the scriptures weren't changed despite this church being entrusted to preserve them. They treat the Bible as if it was some book that just dropped from the sky (kind of like the way Muslims treat the Quran). There's also various flawed and illogical interpretations of Jesus' words "The gates of Hades shall not prevail against his church.

Originally Posted by grip_daddy

OK, to me Sabbath is important so as to remember creation. It was spoken by God as part of His ten holy laws. It will be observed in heaven and the new earth. God who spoke it valued it throughout the centuries, and blessings are promised even to the strangers who will honour it.

All this is documented in the Old Testament.

Just as you've said you won't take revelation literally, why should you take sabbath worship in heaven and in the new earth literally?

Originally Posted by grip_daddy

If I choose to keep the nine commandments, I wont break one of them without evidence that keeping it is breaking it.

Grip, Colossians 2:16 clearly teaches that sabbath was abolished, but you insist that it was other sabbaths that don't include the one in the Ten commandments. If you're going to follow the sabbath, you should also follow the strict liturgical style of it as described in the Old Testament.

Originally Posted by grip_daddy

Do you think God values Sunday communion? Dont you think if Sunday was highly valued and cherished by God to remember resurrection as a day then explicit directions from God or Jesus could have been told us especially during the last Supper? Jesus directed the apostles to always eat and drink His body and blood, how come a day wasn't tied to the festivity? How come Paul never mentioned a specific day in regard to this to the Corinthians when expounding its essence for worship?

Once again, Grip, you are using the Bible only approach. John records in the end of his Gospel that Jesus did many more things not recorded in the book. How do you know that that's not one of them? How do you know that the teachings on the Eucharist are not part of the Oral Tradition that Paul tells the Thessalonians to keep practicing in 2 Thess 2:15?

With regards to the Corinthians, Paul was writing to admonish them from straying away from what they had already been taught. He wasn't teaching them for the very first time. So his exposition on communion in Corinthians is not the complete final teaching on it, it was simply correcting where the Corinthians had already strayed.