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Do you follow mans traditions or Gods commandments...?
Many try to nullify Gods Commandments and put in mans traditions or ideas but the law remains.
"Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Matthew 15:3,9.
"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 14:12.
"In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." 2 Corinthians 4:4.
Many people follow the traditions that have been handed down to them by their family, friends, and church leaders. They are sincere in their beliefs, but quite often, they have grave misunderstandings about certain teachings of the Bible. They go by the tradition they hear and accept is as true doctrine, not what scripture says and one particular point of doctrine that millions are unaware of is the Sabbath day. Tradition seemingly is more important than God''s Word, the Holy Scriptures.
This deception has led many to believe that the Lord''s Day is Sunday and accept it as mans tradition rather than the Sabbath God set forth. Shall we follow tradition set by men or the Word of God?
Who claims the authority to have changed God''s eternal law?
"The pope is of so great authority and power that he can modify, explain, or interpret even divine laws The pope can modify divine law, since his power is not of man, but of God, and he acts as vicegerent of God upon earth." Translated from Lucius Ferraris, Prompta Bibliotheca (Ready Library), "Papa," art.2.
Which commandment in particular have some attempted to change?
Answer: THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT.
"Sunday is a Catholic institution~ and its claim to observance can be defended only on Catholic principles... From beginning to end of scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first." Catholic Press~ Sydney, Australia 1900.
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"But since Saturday, not Sunday, is specified in the Bible, isn''t it curious that non-Catholics who profess to take their religion directly from the Bible and not from the Church, observe Sunday instead of Saturday? Yes, of course, it is inconsistent; but this change was made about fifteen centuries before Protestantism was born, and by that time, the custom was universally observed. They have continued the custom even though it rests upon the authority of the Catholic Church and not upon an explicit text in the Bible." John A. OBrien, Ph.D., LL.D. The Faith of Millions: The Credentials of the Catholic Religion, Huntington, Indiana, Our Sunday Visitor, pp. 400, 401. Mark 7Clean and Unclean 1The Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus and 2saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were "unclean," that is, unwashed. 3(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders. 4When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles.[a]) 5So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with 'unclean' hands?" 6He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:
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