A handbook of Freethought : $b containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity
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A handbook of Freethought : $b containing in condensed and systematized form a vast amount of evidence against the superstitious doctrines of Christianity
Christianity -- Controversial literature; Free thought
And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the
Sabbath day that which is not lawful? And he said unto them,
Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was a
hungered, he and they that were with him?
How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high
priest, and did eat the shew-bread, which is not lawful to eat,
but for the priests, and gave also to them that were with him?
And he said unto them, The Sabbath was made for man and not man
for the Sabbath. (Mark 2 : 23-27.)
Jesus had repeated conflicts with the Jews on this question. He would
not honor the Jewish Sabbath, and consequently the Jews made war upon
him, threatening to take his life.
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal
on the Sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against
him. But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had
the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he
arose and stood forth.
Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful
on the Sabbath days to do good or to do evil? to save life or to
destroy it?
And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man,
Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so; and his hand was restored
whole as the other. (Luke 6 : 7-11.)
And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another
what they might do to Jesus. (Luke 6 : 11.)
We read in Luke 13 : 11-14, that "there was a woman which had a spirit
of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no
wise lift up herself."
And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her,
Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
And he laid his hands upon her; and immediately she was made
straight, and glorified God.
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because
that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day, and said unto the people,
There are six days in which man ought to work; in them therefore
come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.
With the commandment before his eyes, saying: "Take heed to yourselves
and bear no burdens on the Sabbath day as I commanded your fathers,"
(Jeremiah 18 : 21), Jesus deliberately bade the cripple take up his
bed and walk, on the Sabbath day.
It is remarkable that those people who love to sabbatize so much,
and to make others do so too, do not see that while Jesus violated
intentionally the Jewish Sabbath, that he never gave his disciples the
slightest hint that they should observe Sunday in any manner whatever.
Paul, the founder of the Christian church, rejects the Sabbath.
Let no man, therefore, judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
respect of any holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath
days. (Colossians 2 : 16.)
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