The Sabbath of the Lord, as given in the Ten, is simply a day of rest in commemoration of the creation, and was made for man's benefit. The other Sabbaths were commandments of men...included in the Mosaic Law.
Rationalization.
What exactly do you do with Saturday's?
Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Deal. I don't mean to rationalize anything, though. I'm just trying to explain as best I can.
Yes, of course. People are typically unaware of rationalizing that they are doing. It's much easier to see when someone else is doing it.
It's a defense mechanism, not a cardinal sin. You're in no danger of causing me to give up you or anything like that.
Yes, that's true, but the Mosaic Law was given to the Jews. More was expected of them because they were God's chosen people.
The Ten Commandments were given to Israel right along with the rest of the law. Moses was an Israelite as were all the people at the base of that mountain...
Exodus 20:18 Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off. 19 Then they said to Moses, “You speak with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.”
20 And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; for God has come to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so that you may not sin.” 21 So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.
22 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel:
God then goes on for another three chapters giving more laws, some of the last of which are Sabbath laws, by the way. What we call the Ten Commandments was just the introduction.
For you to hang on to the Ten Commandments is to let the nose in the tent. I assure you that there's a whole camel attached to that nose!
I think Paul is speaking of both. The Ten for the whole world, and the Mosaic Law for the Jews.
On what basis?
Just as I suspected. You are saying the same thing I have been saying. The Law has been fulfilled in the believer. My argument has always been that the TEN have not been nailed to the cross. They exist to this very day for all men for the purpose they were given. They exist in our conscience even now as believers. It is simply right and wrong. How can right and wrong be nailed to the cross.
The law is not simply right and wrong. God is not subject to the law and never has been nor could He be. He is also the only One that is good and, in fact, is goodness itself. He was nailed to a tree to become a curse for us. That language is not accidental. It is intentionally hearkening back to THE curse of THE tree in Eden, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, the fruit of which is the law. Just as Adam did not need the forbidden fruit to know good and evil, we do not need the law (any of it) to know good and evil, we need God. It wasn't good and evil that was nailed to the cross, it was the alternative to God that was nailed to the cross.
Also, go back again to Romans chapter one....
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,
Notice that it isn't the Ten Commandments that are used to condemn the unrighteousness of men!
Absolutely true that our righteous has nothing whatsoever to do with the Law....no man's does.
That isn't why the Law was given in the first place.
Deuteronomy 6:25 Then it will be righteousness for us, if we are careful to observe all these commandments before the Lord our God, as He has commanded us.’
Isaiah 48:18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Mark 10:17 Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?”
18 So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. 19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ”
Resting in Him,
Clete