Challenging some of the "NT-only" assertions of the "Let Us Reason" website

The Internet teems with off-the-mark Biblical teachings. Included in these are some of the typical "New Testament only" assertions of the Let Us Reason website. Rather than to post the entire series of e-mails we exchanged with the webmaster, Mike (whose rote mantra seems to be "But, we're not under the law!"), we will simply highlight a few of the ways that he is off the mark, and allow our reading audience to make up their own mind.

The "Let Us Reason" website asserts the following about God's commanded seventh-day Sabbath:

Let Us Reason's assertion: While Sabbatarian's state "there is no command to worship on Sunday" they can't produce a single command that the Church was to assemble on the Sabbath for worship? If there is one in the New Testament epistles (the teachings for the Church), please bring it to our attention and we will do it.


The Messianic response: Perhaps the best way to answer this challenge is to show you that Yeshua (Jesus) did not rise on a Sunday - which is why Christians supposedly changed God's Sabbath from the seventh to the first day! Please read On what day was our Savior resurrected?

God gave us some FOREVER commands; and "forever" didn't end last Tuesday - and certainly not the day that Yeshua (the final SIN Sacrifice) died on the cross! (Get the connection? Yeshua was the final SIN Sacrifice - not someone who said He came to abolish His original teachings!)

Exodus 31: 13 "Say to the Israelites, 'You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.

Exodus 31: 16 The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. 17 It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested.' "

Leviticus 23: 3 " 'There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

Isaiah 66: 23 And it shall be that from one New Moon to another New Moon and from one Sabbath to another Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before Me, says the Lord.

Isaiah 58: 13 If you hold back your foot on Shabbat from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call Shabbat a delight, ADONAI'S holy day, worth honoring; then honor it by not doing your usual things or pursuing your interests or speaking about them. If you do, you will find delight in ADONAI - I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your ancestor Ya'akov, for the mouth of ADONAI has spoken."

God "rested" on the seventh day, not because He needed rest, but to provide the example that we would. He "rested" because He was done creating and could admire His work. Sometime thereafter He told us to keep the Sabbath Holy because it would be a SIGN between Him and His creation:

Ezekiel 20: 10 "So I took them out of the land of Egypt and brought them into the wilderness. 11 "I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live. 12 "Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Now, pay CLOSE ATTENTION to this one:

Isaiah 66: 22 "As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me," declares the LORD, "so will your name and descendants endure. 23 From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me," says the LORD. 24 "And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind."

If you're still unconvinced about God's FOREVER commandments, please read our response to The Berean Call. Also read the following articles which reveal the importance of God's appointed times:


Let Us Reason's assertion: I never said "the law" was abolished as if not existing but not for the new testament believer. Paul says we are not under law.

Rom. 6:14-15 For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

Rom. 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

Gal. 3:23-25 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed. Therefore the Law has become our tutor {to lead us} to Christ, that we may be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. " NO MORE (Old Testament) LAW


The Messianic response:

Perhaps you should study your Bible just a little closer so that you could learn the difference between "legalism" and Torah! The attempt to gain salvation by following the Torah on your own without faith, and inevitably failing at some point, is the "curse of the Law" - not the Torah itself. Please read the following articles:

Colossians 2: 14 - He wiped away the bill of charges against us. Because of the regulations, it stood as a testimony against us; but he removed it by nailing it to the execution-stake.

The gross misunderstanding by Christians of the teachings of Paul has been the single biggest cause of the chasm between Judaism and Christianity. That is because Christians are viewing Paul's teachings through Greek, as opposed to Hebrew eyes. For instance, ask yourself this: Did Rav Sha'ul (Paul) say the Law (Torah) was nailed to the cross? The answer is a resounding NO! He wiped away the documented opinions of men (bill of charges) against us and took them from our midst....

Nobody ever seems to question why Paul said: 31 Do we then nullify the Law through faith? May it never be! On the contrary, we establish the Law (Romans 3:31).....

The Torah is holy, righteous and good. To suddenly have it "nailed to the cross" suggests that the things of God were originally evil, something to be done away with. That is nothing short of blasphemy!

Mike of "Let Us Reason" provides the "typical Christian" answer which shows he simply doesn't understand what Torah is. "Grace" didn't erase the fact that we have MORAL rules to follow and Biblical feasts that are GOD'S appointed times - all of which foreshadow Yeshua! He has so far only fulfilled the first four, with three more to go - with the next one being "the rapture".

The "Let Us Reason" site is the typical Christian site which has only half the Bible. Traditional Jews have the other half. If both sides would only read in context what the ENTIRE Bible says, this world would have fewer problems.