Dear Bro. Rashid,

Shukran for your salute of peace from the world of Islam. It was good reading from you although you either misread my posting or eisegeted (read meaning into) what I said. However, I agree with you that may be in our discussions some benefits may accrue. Actually I did not at any time say  the bible is an encyclopaedia of 66 books (+ the extra catholic ones) authored by fallible men. It is not "the word of God", it is "about the word of God" (commentary and interpretations). What I said expressly was that the bible is a library of 66 books written by multiple writers as they were led by the Holy Spirit of God. I base this on what Peter the Apostle of Jesus and an eye witness of the Lord Jesus Christ wrote. Emphasis is in bold. 2 Peter 1: 

¹⁶ For we did not follow cleverly devised stories when we told you about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ in power, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. ¹⁷ He received honor and glory from God the Father when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, saying, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”^[b] 18 We ourselves heard this voice that came from heaven when we were with him on the sacred mountain.

 ¹⁹ We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. ²⁰ Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. ²¹ For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

The above quote comes from one writer of the Bible who was among the first followers of Jesus. To say that the bible was written by fallible men does not make the bible fallible. The bible is never contaminated as you put it. The Bible is the word of God Jehovah or Yahweh the God of Abraham, Jacob and Isaac the creator of heaven and earth - and I say again, Muslims and Christians do not worship the same God. The God of the Bible is very different and it is high time Muslims understood this. The attributes of Allah are different from that God of the Bible who identifies Himself as Triune-one God in three persons- you need the Spirit of God to believe in this. Non-Christians and those who claim to be Christians but have not put their faith in Jesus Christ can not comprehend this teaching.

• Bro. Paul, please understand the zealous and passionate posting by my brother Muslims such bro. Twaha is in reaction to the uninformed Christians who tend to think that the Bible contains uncontaminated divine revelations.

Brother Rashid the Bible does not contain contaminated divine revelations. The is the divine revelation to the lost world and it is the only book that is God's full revelation to mankind written in a span of many years covering the Lives of Adam, Noah until the last Apostle of Jesus to die- John who wrote the Book of Revelation. Bro. Rashid please it is not right to say that the New Testament  was written by third hand witnesses. Mathew was a disciple of Jesus, Mark was a companion of the Disciples and he must have witnessed what he wrote because he wrote with much authority and what he wrote corroborated with what written in the other gospels of Mathew, Luke and John.

The bible does not contain inaccuracies as you said. I said the versions or the translations we have do have ditto graphical errors courtesy of human error. I have a whole bunch of Quranic textual criticism that show that there exists discrepancies in the compilation of the Quaran hence the origin of the Ahmadias, the Sunnis, and Shias. I do not like critisizing the Quran because it is a Holy book believed by many people and I benefit no one by doing so. My wonder is, most you muslim as so much concerned about the negatives written by scoffers( Emphasis in bold.) as in 2Peter 3

¹ Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking. ² I want you to recall the words spoken in the past by the holy prophets and the command given by our Lord and Savior through your apostles.

 ³ Above all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. ⁴ They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” ⁵ But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water. ⁶ By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. ⁷ By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

Bro Rashid The Roman Catholic Church was not founded on the teachings of Paul whatsoever. Paul was a citizen of the Roan empire but a Jew and  a pharisee.  When he wrote his letter to the Romans, he had not visited Rome. What I want you to know today is that in The New Testament, there are two groups of believers or Churches. First there is the Jewish believers and second the Gentile or non-Jewish believers. The present true Christianity must recognize this divisions because that exactly what God intended to bring all people into one. At present I belong to the later group. Read Acts 9 (Emphasis in bold) The 12 were send to the Jewish group and Paul was send to both but with a strong commission to the non_Jews. No where in Church history is Paul accredited with founding the church in Rome. That is therefore a fallacy on your part.

⁵ But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel. ¹⁶ I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.”

 ¹⁷ Then Ananias went to the house and entered it. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord—Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here—has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” ¹⁸ Immediately, something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized, ¹⁹ and after taking some food, he regained his strength.

Paul was never questioned by the 12 and was never rejected or refused this is what the Bible says Read Acts 9

 ²⁶ When he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. He told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord and that the Lord had spoken to him, and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus.²⁸ So Saul stayed with them and moved about freely in Jerusalem, speaking boldly in the name of the Lord. ²⁹ He talked and debated with the Hellenistic Jews,^[a] but they tried to kill him. ³⁰ When the believers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

 ³¹ Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.

What is reported in the above is that the disciple feared him because they did not really believe that he was one of them. He had been their adversary. They did not refuse him. This is a fallacy on your part. Where did you get this? What you would have said correctly is that without the Teaching of Paul there would not be a gentile church as we know it today, not the Roman Catholic Church.

In  my posting, I did not mention Sulman Rushdie, where did you get him? I just quoted a verse in the Quran and I asked explanation. It was not from the Hadith as you are trying to say. I gave even the Sura. I have a Quran and I can read the same verses. I do not read the Hadith. More so I never doubt the authenticity of the Quran. What I do is that I do care if it is authentic or not because it does not add any value to my life as a Christian BECAUSE I HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS OF LIFE IN THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE. I will now respond to what you called "universally acknowledged historical Facts" I do not know acknowledged by who?

Let me hold your hand briefly as we stroll through the History of the Church (or the post-Christ era). To avoid controversy, I will confine myself to universally acknowledged historical facts (bare of opinions):

• When Paul (formerly Saul, the persecutor of Christ's followers) had "a change of heart" and subsequently went to the 12 Disciples of Jesus, they, after questioning, flatly refused him. TRUE/FALSE
• Only St. Barnabas, one of the senior and respected disciples agreed to work with him in the mission of "spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ". After a short time together, St. Barnabas disagreed with Paul's "teachings" which were contrary to the teachings of Jesus. They thus parted company. Where do you get this information? could you please give references of renowned Christian schorlars? Do not give me the crap of the Gospel of St. Baranabas written by Muslims. TRUE/FALSE 
• So from the onset there were 2 distinct groups preaching distinctly different messages of Christ. TRUE/FALSE;
• The original group (12 disciples) preached to the Jews (as did Jesus) whereas Paul decided to extend his mission to the gentiles (unlike Jesus). TRUE/FALSE; He did not decide to extend he was send by the risen Jesus Christ so this makes your statement false.
• Paul sought, and eventually got the support of the Romans (Gentiles). With backing from the "Rulers" (Romans), Paul's group and followers were able to 'evangelize' rapidly their version of 'christianity'. TRUE/FALSE;
• Meanwhile the genuine/original disciples of Jesus started facing [persecution at the hands of the Romans who supported St. Paul faction. Infact many of the original disciples faced brutal death (including St. Peter-the Rock on whom Jesus said he would build his Church). The disciples were not persecuted by the Romans but by their fellow Jews and Jesus had many disciples Including Stephen the first martyr. Even Paul was persecuted by both Jews and the Romans TRUE/FALSE;
• The 12 Disciples and followers were again on the run. Those that survived sought refuge in North Africa (these were what historians refer to as Unitarians i.e believers in One God as opposed to the Trinitarians of St. Paul's doctrine). This is a fallacy too because Peter went to Rome where he died, Thomas went to India, and some went to Europe.For your information Paul the Apostle never mentioned the word Tinity  he is not the author of the doctrine. God as triune is a doctrine taught in the entire bible from Genesis to Revelation . The information here is not supported by historical facts. therefore this is TRUE/FALSE;
• 400 years later, these were to join the new Unitarian religion as professed by the followers of Prophet Mohammed (S)....Others remained Christians but to this day reject the doctrine of the Triune God, salvation through death of Jesus, or the divinity of Christ.This is wishful thinking and it does not merit mention  TRUE/FALSE;
• In AD. 325 at the Conference at Nicea presided by Emperor Constantine, the Bible as we know it today was complied. The Doctrine of Trinity was made the official Church doctrine ( the Unitarians were finally defeated).The Bible WAS  never compiled at this conference. The Bible was there, it had preceded the Quran and even Prophet Muhamed though illiterate must have heard about it when he had an encounter with Christians. Could you please tell me who are these people called the people of the scripture? What is this scripture if not the Bible? Read the Holy Quran 3:64 Say, "O People of the Scripture, come to a word that is equitable between us and you - that we will not worship except Allah and not associate anything with Him and not take one another as lords instead of Allah ." But if they turn away, then say, "Bear witness that we are Muslims [submitting to Him]."
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• TRUE/FALSE;
• The followers of St.Paul ascended the church's hierarchy and Roman leaders took up the position of Pope. where do you get this? Supporting reference? TRUE/FALSE;
• So the Roman Catholic Church (and the breakaway Protestants) as we know it today owes its very existence on St. Paul....its theology has no basis save in the teachings of the Gospel according to St. Paul. What do you mean has no basis? it is true that the Gentile Church owes it to the Apostle Paul because he was the Apostle sent to them by Jesus. But basis of all True Christian Theology is based on the Bible and the person of Jesus Christ. TRUE/FALSE
• Does the name alone not say the whole story???? What name?

I will now deal with the following part giving you reason as to why I believe the God of the Bible is not the God of the Quran.

Do Muslims worship and believe in the God who created Adam? the answer to this question is No because the Quranic Adam was created differently,

Indeed, the example of Jesus to Allah is like that of Adam. He created Him from dust; then He said to him, "Be," and he was.

The Biblical Adam was created by God from the dust of the earth and God breathed in his nostrils and Adam became a living being. The difference between these two Adams is that whereas the Biblical Adam was created in God's Image male and female, the Quranic Adam was created from clay and Iblis was asked to breath into him and refused. The Quranic Adam was told to be and he was just like the other creatures. The Biblical Adam is different. Contrast the two accounts The Quran above and the Bible here below. They are not the same Adams. Genesis 1 (Note the plural pronoun)

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 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

 ²⁷ And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

 ²⁸ And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

 ²⁹ And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

 ³⁰ and to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.

Do Christians worship and believe in the God who created Adam? Yes the biblical Adam Not the one in the Quran.

Do Muslims worship and believe the God of Prophets Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ismail, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Harun, David, and Solomon, Elijah, Ayub, etc? No because the Bible designates all these to be the protypes of Jesus Christ who was preached by the Apostle Paul. 

Do Christians worship and believe the God of Prophets Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Ismail, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Harun, David, and Solomon, Elijah, Ayub, etc? Yes;


Do Muslims worship and believe in the God who sent Prophets Jesus and Mohammed? Yes they worship that God who send Prophet Issa Bin Mariam who did not die on the cross but played tricks to evade death.

DoChristians worship and believe in the God who sent Prophets Jesus and Mohammed? No. They worship Yahweh the triune God the Father of Jesus Christ. The Jesus of the Bible is different because He came and died and rose again. According to the law of non-contradiction there exists no two different accounts that can be both true. One is true and the other is false. So the best way out of this, is that the God of Prophet Muhammad is not the  God of Jesus Christ. More so Jesus is the son of God, prophet, High Priest and King Of Kings. 
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Bro. Paul, do you believe the God you worship created the Muslims (such as Khuzeima)? I believe He is their creator but they do not want to acknowledge Him as their God? They say their God is called Allah

Indeed, this is the true narration. And there is no deity except Allah . And indeed, Allah is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

Bro. Khuzeima, did your God create Paul? Is Paul's Creator not his God? Is this not the God you Worship? Khuzeima's God did not create me.

You gentlemen worship the same God, only your understanding of Him and His attributes differ. Logic dictates that since your views of God are in opposition to the other....One of you is wrong, the other is right...but both of you cannot be Right. This is very true. One of us wrong and only the last day will reveal who.
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Paul does your Bible talk about the Triune God? If not, then whence comes such thoughts....from your namesake perhaps? I have talked about this before but to say it again is appropriate. Yes my Bible talks about the triune God and it is the central doctrine of Christianity. 

Come brother lets reason together and dig deeper into this matter. There we go. Let me hear from you.

Paul

Our Problem in Africa is not Language but Leadership

Friends,

This has been a very educative topic and more topics of this type should be generated and discussed exhaustively. I would like to commend the person who initiated this discussion. I however would like to say that as much as we are looking at a language that can not only unify us but also help us internalize the intricacies of the philosophies or knowledge, we need to recognize then fact that we have no choice except to go with English and Kiswahili. I say this because of the following reasons:

1. English is an African language too. When a language is adapted by a people and they use it in all the avenues through which knowledge knowledge is passed from one generation to another, that language becomes their language. Given the characteristics of any language; i.e it grows and can die, English has become an African language it has very many words that are African and it has accommodated a lot of the African idiom. Hence English is not foreign any more. Look at the following words, some which were used even at the Hague without being translated to the Judges; pangas, and rungus,askaris, matatus and now even Mungiki. There are other words that have been included in the Oxford Dictionary and are accepted as East African English. Eg, sufuria, safari, jembe, shamba,etc.

2. Kiswaili also merits to be used in any area of education and its applicability and adaptability to scientific corpus should not be underrated. In Tanzania Kiswahili was developed and many science subjects are taught in Kiswahili. What I do not know is whether the students in Tanzania or Tanzanians in that case are more scientific minded than Kenyans because of Kiswahili. This is an area that requires a research. But my argument is Kiswahili is a lingua franca and a world language that can be used in all areas of study. What we need is just adequate research and leadership in this area.

3. It is not true that  education in Africa or Kenya is an import. Education in Kenya takes its shape from the Cultures in Africa. If  you study comparative education and the History of Education, you will see that in matters of Religion, Philosophy, Education, Politics, science and technology, perspectives are always universal because all these are governed by the laws of Nature, and are interlinked especially when it comes to the metaphysical. So many nations have learned from each other. China, Japan, Korea for example are countries that have their own languages and their own characters(alphabet) but what they now know in the realm of science and technology was borrowed heavily from the West and many of their students went to the USA, UK, Russia and etc to study. When they go back to their home countries, they only modified what they learned and made it usable in their context.

In Africa to the contrary, we never use the knowledge by developing and improving on what we learned from others, we destroy the final utility of goods.  We are consumers and not users of knowledge. With this I would like to strongly refute what some people say that the African is inferior. Our problem in Africa is not Language but leadership.

Monogamy is the ideal human sexual Union

Monogamy is the ideal human sexual relation created and sealed by God Himself. God did not create multiple partners for Adam. He only created one and that was Eve. I am not using Church Dogma here but the bible. I would like to show here that Monogamy is Biblical just as Polygyny (: the state or practice of having more than one wife or female mate at a time ) is. Monogamy is God's perfect Union based on God's perfect will while Polygyny was and is allowed based on God's permissive will.

First, there is nowhere in African History where one was married without a wedding-when I say this I want us to understand that weddings are not necessarily religious in the western world. They are cultural. In Africa, however, weddings happened to be religious because religion permiated the entire fabric of the african world view. You cannot divorce religion from any African activity including child birth, naming,initiation, marriage and death. I would like any interested reader to read John S Mbitis African Religions and Philosophies and Gehman's African Traditional Religion Abiblical perspective, to get a glimpse of some the aspects of the african worldview I am talking about.

Weddings, before the coming of even chritianity, were very present in Africa and marriage was only between one man and one wife. The other wives who came in as second or third, were but mere associations of the man with other people and no wedding was done for them. Nonetheless bridewealth was given to the newly married women's parents. The other wives were subordinate to the first wife and they claimed nothing over that which the first wive allowed them to have. However, children from all wives enjoyed equal rights.

The first instance of this type of marriage, which is also called bigamy, in the Bible was that of Lamech in Genesis 4:19:who married two wives. There is no where in the bible where this kind of marriage is condemned or considered to be sin. In the New Testament, there are inferences as to the existance of such unions in the church because if they were non-existant, Paul would not have talked about -a man of but one wife- when he was laying down the qualifications of a leader in the church..

Second, a vital question asked here by one Harry is ;But how come our forefathers succeeded in having several wives, and even raised stable families? Success is very relative and the criterion to measure success esopecially in family matters varies from culture to culture. The Maasai and other pastrolists for example would consider success to have thousands head of cattle, while among other communities, having many children who have good jobs and have big tracts of land would be seen as success. 
    When all is said and done there are however very many factors that allowed people who lived in those days to manage big families with multiple wives.

1. Availability of economical resources, land, food, livestock etc.

2. Political power, like your grandfather (Mumia Nabongo) who took other people's wives just because he was a Mwami, read King.

3. There were laid down marriage laws that governed this institution and these laws were passed on by word of mouth from one generation to another e.g. total respect for the first wife, the man must provide for all the women failure to which the society would deal with the culprit. For insatance, one could not just marry without having built a house for the second wife and shown that he has the capability and capacity to mange two houses.

Third, Second wives were not just taken without real reasons. Second wives were married because either the first wife could not have children, she was incapacitated is a way or another, the need to have boys or girls( since it was believed that having boys or girls was the woman's problem not the man's). The same reasons appear in the bible.
 
Lastly, the issue of making monogamy legal and polygyny or polygamy ilegal, is a matter of the law of the land which allows a man to marry only one wife and if one is found with two wives with two marriage certificates then, that is a matter that has to be taken to court. Only one marriage certificate is given to one couple. If an individual wants to marry a second wife, then  the first must be nullified through a legal process. The Muslims marry upto four wives I do not know if the Kenya Goverment issues four marriage certificates.

When God Said Remember Part 1

One of the most perplexing questions facing the religious world today is being deliberately stifled by many leading churchmen. The sincere inquiries of laymen and Bible students are being turned aside by those in authority. Yet the question demands attention and requires an answer. It is the question of the Sabbath. The reason it looms so large in the minds of so many is that it's a part of the Ten Commandments, which God wrote with His own hand and delivered to the world. It is found in the very heart of the Ten Commandments and is the longest and most detailed of them. Furthermore, God distinguished this commandment by urgent wording found nowhere else in the Decalogue. It is introduced by the ommand, "Remember." Yet I submit to you that the world has largely forgotten what God said to remember. Not even the latest memory pills will bring the human race to remember what God wrote in the middle of His great moral law.

The world may have forgotten to remember but Chritians, who are genuine followers of Jesus Christ have never forgotten to keep the Sabbath Day Holy, what they have done; they have kept the day holy and also kept all the days of the Week holy because of Christ Jesus who enables them. They are in the Lord of the Sabbath and by that virtue, they are obeying the commandment. 1. The Israelites obeyed and kept the Sabbath holy to the letter but this was not sufficient, God still required that the sin of the world must be atoned for and that is why Christ dies for you and for me.
Specifically, what did God command us to remember? Let's read the commandment itself in Exodus 20:8-11. "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." Now, this raises an interesting question, friends. Why do millions keep Sunday, the first day of the week, instead of Saturday, the seventh day as the commandment specifies? Why do they not keep the day God said to remember?
In your question (s) above, you make a very blunt assumption that you have caught Christians napping; Christians (millions) do not keep Sunday the first day of the week. Who told that? Christians only gather on Sunday to worship and fellowship as they were commanded by Jesus to love one another and break bread in remembrance of Him. The Bible does not show us that remembering to keep the Sabbath holy is the same as going to church and worshipping God. All the Seventh Day Adventists do not keep the Sabbath holy by not working. They go to Church to worship and fellowship. Where did God require us to worship and fellowship on the Sabbath?  The SDA church has two broadcasting stations in the USA which broadcast 24/7 including Saturday. Why don’t they shut down the stations and obey the entire law? It says  But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: is operating the TV stations, Hospitals etc work? Is there an exception when it comes to these?
Right now, let's look at the Bible reasons for keeping the day God commanded. Everyone really should have a Bible reason for his religious practices. Listen to this text in 1 Peter 3:15: "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear." There it is. The Bible forever settles it. Every Christian ought to have an answer from the scriptures for everything he believes. So you say to me, "Well, why DO you keep Saturday as the Sabbath when nearly everybody else keeps Sunday?" With God's Word in hand we are going to answer that question today. That's why I trust you will listen very, very carefully and prayerfully to this broadcast.
The first Bible reason for keeping the seventh day Sabbath is that Jesus kept the seventh day holy and asked all His followers to do the same. Here's the scripture to prove that Jesus kept the Sabbath. "And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read." Luke 4:16. This verse of scripture is too plain for anyone to misunderstand or misconstrue. It plainly says that Jesus habitually kept the Sabbath. That was His custom.

My friend, in the paragraph above, you have eisegeted (read into) the scripture. Jesus going into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day and reading the bible does not amount to Jesus asking his followers to do so. There are very many things Jesus did and we never are required to do them physically, e.g forgiving sinners, dying on the cross, sweating blood, carrying the cross, driving out merchants from the Temple, etc. Jesus going into the SYNAGOGUE as was His custom, point out to the fact that He was following the Religion of His ancestors and His people. It also shows that He did not come to destroy the Religion practiced by His people but He came to show them the most excellent way of doing things on the Sabbath. What Jesus was doing here, made many people wonder and in fact it also brought hreat opposition because He was healing people even on the Sabbath and what does Jesus answer? , "My Father works on all days to do good to men, and I work also." Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one thing: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy? ~Luke 6:9
Matthew 12:1-14 ; Mark 2:23- 3:6 ; Luke 6:1-11 ; John 5:1-18

  To Jesus, it did not matter what day it was, whether it was a Sabbath or not, He just did work. That is how Christians should look and keep the Sabbath day holy, by working all days-i.e. keeping all days holy because they are in the Lord of the Sabbath. Read on and see what the religious leaders accused Jesus of;

 The man went away from the Temple, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. The Jews were very angry at Jesus because he had cured this man on the Sabbath. But Jesus said to them, "My Father works on all days to do good to men, and I work also."

These words made the Jews ready to kill Jesus, not only because, as they said, he had broken the Sabbath, but because he had spoken of God as his Father, as though he were the Son of God. He was indeed the Son of God, although they would not believe it.

Question: Did Jesus break the Sabbath here by working on the Sabbath? Did He keep it Holy by Working? What does it mean God working all Days? Please respond to these Questions.
Now let's read a scripture or two that tells us we should follow His example. We all believe it, but let's read it from the Bible so we can be sure. John 12:26: "If any man,", notice that expression, "If any man serve me, let him follow me." A great many people think they are serving the Lord who are not actually serving Him, because the Lord said if any man serve Me, then let him follow Me. It doesn't make any difference what a person's persuasion, color, or background may be, this statement refers to everybody. The Lord removed all doubt when He said "any man." That plainly means every individual who is listening to this broadcast, because the word "man" is a collective noun meaning mankind, everyone. If any man, woman, or child will serve Me, let him follow Me. Those are Christ's own words. To serve Him, we must follow Him.
Serving and following Jesus are two different but important things and they do not mean following his example. First, serving Jesus means working for him and doing service for mankind on Jesus’ behalf while following Jesus means believing in Jesus and taking Him as savior and Lord putting all your trust in Him and living for Him. That is to say, we should lead lives that glorify him. The examples that our Lord showed us and gave us are numerous and keeping the Sabbath day Holy is not one of them. Washing other people’s feet, breaking bread, paying tax etc are some of the examples that Jesus did to demonstrate how we ought to live. Therefore Jesus keeping the Sabbath does set precedence or a precept for us to follow.
 Now let's read the word of the apostle Peter in1 Peter 2:21. "For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps." That again is a scripture too plain for anybody to misconstrue. The scripture simply makes it clear that if I'm going to be a Christian, I must follow Him. And if I'm going to follow Him, then I must keep the Sabbath, because Jesus kept the Sabbath.
The Scripture in I Peter 2:21 does not in any way point at keeping the Sabbath. A simple application of sound hermeneutics dictates that you must interpret scripture literary, grammatically and geographically. I hope you understand what I mean. The example that Peter is referring to here, is suffering for the sake of Christ. The Christians in the first century were being persecuted for their faith and many were killed. Peter was therefore telling them to endure suffering because Jesus suffered too and showed us the best example of how we ought to conduct ourselves in suffering. This verse has nothing to do with the keeping of the Sabbath.
Right here a great many folks will say, "Now, wait a minute. I don't feel that the Sabbath is binding today. The Book of Revelation speaks of the Lord's Day. I worship on the Lord's Day. I have nothing at all to do with the Sabbath." Well, let's turn to that Book of Revelation and read this passage that's so often mentioned. It's found in Revelation 1:10. "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet." Now let's analyze this scripture a little bit. It's often used as a proof-text to prove that we ought to worship on the first day of the week. You've just heard that scripture read, friends. Does the verse say that the Lord's Day is the first day of the week? Of course not; absolutely not. Does the verse say that the Lord's Day is the Sabbath Day? No, it doesn't say that, either. Sabbath keepers couldn't use this verse to prove that the Lord's day is the Sabbath, neither could Sunday keepers use it to prove that the Lord's day is Sunday. All this verse states is that the Lord has a special day called the Lord's day. That's all Revelation 1:10 could ever prove.
There is no one claiming that worship on the First –Sunday- is done because it is the Lord’s Day. In fact, Christians as we have said and we say again, is, Christians worship the Lord everyday just as Jesus and God the Father work on all days. As you have rightly observed that the Lord’s Day does not refer to the SABBATH day or to Sunday, could you please tell us if this would refer to the day our Lord rose from the dead? Did Jesus rise on the First day of the Week? Which day did Jesus appear to His disciples after he rose from the dead? Which day did the apostle Paul ask Christians at Corinth to congregate and collect an offering for him? Could this be the First day? Could a day that our Lord rose from the dead be rightly referred to as the Lord’s Day?
Our last question is this: If He has a day, then which day is the Lord's day? Can we find the answer to this question from the Bible without seeking the theories of men? The answer is, Yes. We can find the answer right in the Book of God. Let's take a New Testament scripture first, and an Old Testament scripture along with it. The New Testament scripture is Matthew 12:8. "Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath day." Now, friends, if the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath day, then the Sabbath surely is the Lord's Day. That's the New Testament scripture. The Bible actually refers to the Sabbath as His day. God claims only one holy day, the Sabbath.
You may be reasoning like this: "How do we know that the ‘Sabbath' and the ‘Lord's day' are not simply other ways of saying ‘the first day of the week'? I bring this up because many people have actually made that claim. I've heard the argument quite recently. But let's see what God says. Turn now to the Old Testament text in Exodus 20, and I'm going to read beginning with verse 10. Listen carefully now, because God settles the matter right here once and for all. "But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God." Did you get that, friends? Now tell me, you folk who have calendars hanging right there on the wall, what day of the week is the seventh day? Why, Saturday, of course. You can't get away from it. It's right there witnessing from your calendar on the wall. The seventh day is the Sabbath. So, on the authority of God's eternal Word, the seventh day, the Sabbath, the Lord's Day, all mean the same thing and all refer to the day that we now call Saturday. So if we're going to follow Jesus, and He kept that day, then we must likewise observe Saturday as the holy Sabbath.
Now I want you to look again at Exodus 20 for a few moments, because this is the chapter where the Ten Commandments are recorded. I've been much amazed to discover that there are many people, church people even, who do not realize that one of the Ten Commandments has to do with the Sabbath. People learn the Ten Commandments and study them and yet some do not know that one of them has to do with the Sabbath we're talking about today. It's the fourth commandment of God's law. We read it at the beginning of this broadcast. "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God." Now, remember friends, this is a part of the Ten Commandments. Why is it that people the world over, who are the best of Christians, have lost sight of that? I call your attention to the fact that it's one of the Ten Commandments because God says that the Ten cannot be changed. I want to read two verses to prove this. The first is Psalm 89:34 where the Lord says, "I will not alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.'' And then in Exodus 20, the chapter containing the Ten Commandments, we read in verse 1, "And God spake all these words.'' So the Lord said it and He can't change it once it has been said. His words cannot be changed. That's what the Old Testament proves.
We who congregate on Sundays to fellowship and worship God agree with you that the Ten Commandments can not be changed and have never been changed except for one denomination that removed the second commandment and divided the one that warns against Covetousness. The Sabbath day as it was instituted by God is being kept holy by the people who were given the Law. Jesus and the Apostles practiced this religion perfectly. If you are a Jew by Religion, you must keep this. If you are a Christian and would like to worship on Saturday, well and good but God did not command us to worship him only on the Sabbath. In fact I say again, keeping the Sabbath day holy does not mean worshipping but ceasing to work.
Here's the New Testament verse: Luke 16:17. "It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." Now a tittle is a little tiny marking in the Hebrew alphabet likened to the crossing of a "t" or the dotting of an "i." God's law cannot be changed even as little as that; it's just impossible. That's another reason why I keep the seventh day Sabbath, God's unchangeable law commands it. It's the fourth commandment, and I hope every person listening will see that it's just as serious to break the commandment that says, "Remember the sabbath day" as it is to break the commandments that say "Thou shalt not steal" and "Thou shalt not kill." They are all in the same law, written by the same God. It's God's idea, friends, not mine or yours. Here's a question that has disturbed me for many years: How can any man, woman, or child feel free to ignore any commandment that the eternal God gives? That's a question we ought to study and analyze very seriously today, friends.
Now to respond to the above, I agree with you that if we break one commandment, we break all and we can not ignore any of them. Christians never ignore any commandment. They keep all the seven Days of the week holy and only congregate on Sunday to worship and fellowship as the SDA members congregate on Saturday to do the same. Meeting on the Sabbath day to worship is not synonymous to keeping it holy, keeping holy means not working at all on that day.
A certain Protestant Christian had a good job working in the office of a shipping firm. One day while he was out in the shipping department, one of the workmen there somehow suffered a minor accident as he went about his business. Holding the bruised finger, the man swore violently, taking the Lord's name in vain. This Christian felt badly about it and thought maybe he should do something, so he went over to him and said, ‘'Friend, we really ought to be careful about our speech, shouldn't we? When you talk like that you are breaking one of God's Ten Commandments, the one that says, Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. That's commandment #3." The man, of course, was considerably taken aback. He put his head down sheepishly and said, "Yes, that's right. I'm awfully sorry I slipped. I want you to know that I appreciate your saying something to me about it, and I'll try to be more careful about it in the future."
So this Christian gentleman started back to his office feeling very good and patting himself on the back for teaching somebody that it was very important to keep the Ten Commandments. As he walked along, however, a voice seemed to say to him, "But you are breaking the fourth." That man stopped in his tracks as if frozen, and his heart began to pound. Perspiration broke out on his forehead. He stood there for one awful moment and then, heartbroken, he made his decision to follow God and keep the fourth commandment. You see, the Sabbath truth had come to him before. He had known about it, studied it, analyzed it and even believed it; but, he tried to get away from it. He thought of what his friends at church and at work might think, and he was afraid he might even lose his job if he decided never to work on Saturday again. But as he stood there for that long moment he thought, "Here I am, telling somebody else how awful it is to break the commandments and I'm breaking them myself." He turned, went into his office and shut the door. He got down on his knees and confessed his sins, and from that moment on he kept the Sabbath.
Now listen, friends. When the great God of heaven commands us to do something, what is there to do but obey? May the Lord burn that into every heart today. I know that you're wondering about the folks who don't know these truths. Perhaps you are thinking this is a hard, unreasonable message. And what about my grandmother, one of the greatest saints that ever lived? Certainly she will be saved, and yet she never knew about the Sabbath.

Well, she probably will be saved, friends. The scriptures teach that we are accountable only for the truth we understand. James 4:17 is a very important passage that every Christian should underline in his Bible. Listen: "Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." When we know the truth but don't follow it, we sin. In John 9:41 Jesus said, "If ye were blind, ye should have no sin; but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth." Yes, friends, God judges us according to the light we have. Many dear people will be in the kingdom of God who never even heard of the Sabbath, but they lived up to all the light they knew, and God honors them for that. He will require of you all the truth that you understand, and now since this great truth of the Sabbath has come to you directly from God's Word, friends, what will you do about it? Tomorrow we will continue this study and give more Bible reasons for keeping the same Sabbath as Jesus kept and commanded us to keep.

To sum up my rebuttal, I would request the guy who wrote this article to respond paragraph to paragraph of what I have already written in my posting as I have done to this and also dissect the following from Colosians 2:

 ¹⁶ Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. ¹⁷ These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. ¹⁸ Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. ¹⁹ They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

 ²⁰ Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: ²¹ “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? ²² These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. ²³ Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence

I will respond to part two if  you respond to the matters I have raised above and to my postings and to the postings by Reuben Kigame. Response to these will show that indeed we are engaging in mature debates that will help us live for Christ as good ambassadors.

God bless

Paul