The Bible Teaches We Don't Have to Keep the Weekly Sabbath

Lets say goodby to Martyr and Tertullian right of the batand their opinions. They come from a time before scripture was truly canonized. For Instance, in 140 A. D. the attempt at canon we know of was Marcion, he included Luke and letters of Paul. These people lived in a time when The Gospel of Thomas, The Acts of Thecla were still widely considered scripture. Their quotes also display that early Christians had to address these concerns. Early Christianity was broken up into many factions, just take a look at the different views of Jesus in the first several centuries groups believe he was wholly human, others believed him wholly divine, yet others believed he was wholly human yet wholly divine but the divine Jesus rose to heaven before the crucifixion, and then their were the ones who would be considered orthodox. It is clear in the 1st several centuries what was believed that Jesus taught was not one set view, but many. It has not been until the advent of recent technology and methods that we have gotten this view. My source is a modern scholar using modern techniques and the latest discoveries to determine which of these views was taught in the Gospel of Matthew. That is my argument. The quote from Boardman, is interesting but he doesn't seem to be aware that a historical Jesus, I know I know you aren't interested in that, you just want the theological one, would have considered himself a Jew so his people would have been the people brought out of Egypt. Here we learn this from Mark where he also references the first commandment: Mark 12:29 Jesus answered him, "The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one. Mark 12:28-30 (in Context) Mark 12 (Whole Chapter Now as I have also quoted earlier we have Mark our best source telling us that Jesus said this gem: Mark 10:19 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. '" Then in Matthew 5:17 our second best full source, 3rd best source if you count Q, says 17 "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. 19 Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. He once again refers to himself in the sense of trying to be righteous like the Pharisees. He clearly and unambiguously gives his prerequisites for when the law will end, which is when heaven and earth have passed and all is complete. This is where Jesus taught the law would end This is where those old testament predictions would come true. When heaven and earth had disappeared, it has not. Now to address something off topic for a moment his take on the Documentary Hypothesis, well lets see for a second here, he is doing what creationists love to do with Evolution and quote an early writer about it and ignore he modern advances. We now know that the writing styles different, the interests of the authors differ(J from Judah, E from Israel, D was a Shiloh priest and written at 2 different times, P was the Priestly source written during the first temple, he was a Aaronid Priest). He also only attributes Part of Leviticus to P, well get this we now know P wrote the first parts of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers. He really needs to look up this study. It is confirmed by the fact that you can actually take stories out of the bible and cut them up into 2 parts based on these authors writing styles and find that they tell cohesive stories, even more so then the actual bible in most cases. Look at Noah's flood or Snow White Miriam. If my opponent is so wrong on this study how wrong must he be on the rest. So in conclusion I say, If to be Christian is to be Christ like or Follow Jesus, from our best Biblical sources of what Jesus said, you should keep the commandments as he clearly recognizes them and tells people to keep them. He tells people when you do not need to do so anymore and that time has not come.