The Sabbath

The Sabbath

The Sabbath has been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. Its

been practiced by the Jews on the sixth day of the week ;Saturday;

since the days of Jesus life and that’s the reason why you will not

see out many Jews on the Sabbath as Jesus and God explained it’s the

day of rest. Even though God rested on the seventh day (Genesis

chapter 1-2) and not the sixth this being Sunday in our calendar, but

to explain this the Jewish week starts with Sunday so Saturday is

after all the last day of their week.

Sabbath in Jewish means rest, so the Jews followed gods example and

rest from Fridays sunset to Saturdays sunset. The Jews believe that

that the Sabbath is a day set aside for God to worship him and rest.

It is celebrated at home with a special family meal on a Friday

evening and to then go to the synagogue and pray.

Unnecessary work is much avoided along with the other 39 rules the

Jews set to make the Sabbath a day of rest and to enforce these rules

there are also the 10 commandments to make the Sabbath a very strict

practice known throughout the world.

The Pharisees were these powerful preachers which spread and taught

the Jewish religion in with their own altered points, which often

ended up gaining them more control and power. The Pharisees had been

giving the complete opposite teachings and knowledge of the Sabbath.

They were taking the Jews in the wrong direction. There rules for the

Sabbath were very extravagant like no Jews were allowed to do any kind

of work or job related hobby, nothing. If you were caught doing any

job during the Sabbath day then you’d be punished and even trialed

sometimes.

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...ome Christians do no celebrate Holy Communion because they feel it’s

more important loving their neighbor and loving Christ instead of

receiving his body and blood so they just pray and worship him without

the Holy Communion, because as you can see in Mark chapter 12 verse

28-34 Jesus explains to a teacher of the law that the most important

commandment is to love god with all your heart, love god with all your

soul and love god with all your mind love god with all your strength.

Whilst the second most important commandment is love your neighbor as

you love yourself. This shows that the main thing god cares bout is

the love for your neighbor and the love for him doing this will assure

your place in heaven, like all Christians go to church, worship god,

love your neighbors and you will be accepted in to the kingdom of God.