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Sabbath, Circumcision, and Tithing: Which Old Testament Laws Apply to Christians?

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Great book for anyone who is confused about old testament rules. Many ministers talk about tithing. Some churches talk about a weekly rest. This book helped me a lot with these kinds of issues. But it also helped me in the "grace versus works" department. It's always been a bit of a puzzle to me. Not any more. Thanks.

As someone who has also been on both sides of the 7th Day Sabbath fence, I found this well thought out book to be clear and strongly rooted in scripture.

If you have questions about the Law that was given in the Old Testament, this is an outstanding resource.

Morrison has an agenda set forth in his book that neither the apostles, including Paul or Christians personally observed the Sabbath or Sunday. Morrison only believes Jesus and the Jews did at that time period.To me this is incredible, seeing that the apostles ALL were natural Jews from birth.I would like to ask Mr Morrison when did Jesus ever instruct his 12 apostles to abandon the Sabbath altogether and only go into the synagogues to witness the good news of Jesus? When? Also Morrison states that there were no Christians living then who observed the Sabbath day? Mr Morrison, did you forget about Lydia? Mr Morrison's whole purpose in his book is to say no day of the week is really important for Christians to observe at all. This book is just terrible scriptural apologetics

I actually got disfellowshipped from WCG 10 years ago for saying what is in this book.

My problem was that the 10 Commandments are good and holy.
But the 4th commandment (the Sabbath) is not really kept by anyone properly not even by old school WCG'ers. We'd light fires on the Sabbath by driving our cars (combustion egines no?). We'd go to restaurants and order food and make other people work (but we wouldn't order pork). etc... So we weren't keeping the sabbath literally (never mind spiritually). But James 2:10 says whoever breaks one law breaks them all. So I thought why keep any? Wrote a paper and got the axe.

It seemed pointless to sort of keep the law to me. But this book shows how the law is really to be kept now by listening to the Holy Spirit and letting the author of the law tell you what he wants kept instead of arguing with lawyers about how to keep an obsolete set of ordinances that were simply a flesh shadow of the spiritual reality that has already come.

Wonderful book -- this thing will set you free in your spiritual journey and remove the bondage of being a flesh driven lawyer condeming the world.
That used to be my hobby once upon a time!

Wonderful work Michael!

There are many laws in the Bible - some pertain only to Israel, others being moral laws are forwarded into the New Testament. There is a commentary chapter on the book of Hebrews that clarifies for the reader what constitutes the Old and New Covenants. It addresses the history of Jewish customs & laws that non-Jewish converts to the Christian faith do not follow - things such as circumcision, sabbath keeping, festivals, dietary laws, etc. It attempts to explain the reason for such laws; one being that they pre-figured or had their fulfillment in Christ & his ministry. Other obsolete laws were designed to keep the Jews separated from other races. There is a detailed discussion of the early church and the Jerusalem council that decided that the Gentiles need no conform to Mosaic laws. Overall, the book is easy reading; designed for the lay person as it does not involve itself with advanced theological terms useful only to the trained ministers. I highly recommend it if one is doing a study on the sabbath and archaic jewish customs and laws.

The author i think did well in supporting his view and the way he did it for me is quite good. However, it really did not met my expectations when i was just intending to buy it. I hope that he had explained everything more deeply and more theological. What i have observed is that he more or less just gathered all the texts that can support the subject being treated but have not established it doctrinally deep. Not much a work of a theologian for me, but it is a book that one should have in his shelf.