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Why does the Christian Church encourage Christians to worship Yahweh every Sunday when Jesus rejected man's subservience to his father on the sabbath?

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In the first Genesis creation narrative, God creates a race of vegetarian humans and instructs them simply to "be fruitful and multiply" and take charge of the planet: > "*So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 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 fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth**. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; **to you it shall be for meat**.*" — Genesis 1:27-29 (King James Bible) Following the first Genesis creation narrative, the Bible records that Yahweh created a single man to serve as his gardener: > "*And **the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground**, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul ... And the LORD God took the man, and **put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it***" — Genesis 2:7, 2:15 (King James Bible) And then throughout the remainder of the Old Testament, the overarching theme is the need for man to be subservient to Yahweh.  For example: > "***This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee**; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.*" — Genesis 17:10-11 (King James Bible) > "*And **ye shall serve the LORD your God***" — Exodus 23:25 (King James Bible) > "*And he said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; **and worship ye afar off**.*" — Exodus 24:1 (King James Bible) > "*For **thou shalt worship no other god**: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God*" — Exodus 34:14 (King James Bible) > "*For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, **every knee shall bow to me**, and every tongue shall confess to God.*" — Romans 14:11 (King James Bible) There are countless more examples in the Old Testament.  In Exodus 35:2 in particular, Yahweh issued a most stringent diktat that the Israelites were to spend every day of the week working - except for one, which was instead to be specifically dedicated to him, declaring that anyone who failed to dedicate the final day of the week to him would face the draconian consequence of being put to death: > "*Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day **there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD**: whosoever doeth work therein **shall be put to death**.*”  — Exodus 35:2 (King James Bible) But in the New Testament Yahweh's son, Jesus, effectively superseded all of his father's 600+ laws from the Old Testament with just 2 simple commandments, the first of which was not to worship Yahweh but simply to show him wholehearted love: > "*And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And **thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength**: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. **There is none other commandment greater than these.***" —  Mark 12:29-31 In particular, Jesus deliberately and directly contradicted his father's draconian diktat, expressly stipulating that man is master of his own destiny and entirely free to do as he chooses on the sabbath: > "*And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath: Therefore **the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath**.*” — Mark 2:27 (King James Bible) He was also reported to have stated that he would destroy the Temple in Jerusalem where Jews worshipped his father: > "*We heard him say, **I will destroy this temple that is made with hands***" — Mark 14:58 And towards the end of the Gospel of Luke, Jesus further reiterated the fact that the Temple in Jerusalem where his father was worshipped would one day be completely destroyed: > "*And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which **there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down**.*" — Luke 21:5-6 He followed up this statement by issuing a grave warning to his followers that, after he had gone, charlatans falsely professing to be Christians would come along and deceive true Christians: > "*And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: **for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them**.*" — Luke 21:11 So why does the Christian Church encourage Christians to worship Yahweh every Sunday when Jesus expressly rejected man's subservience to his father, specifically and especially regarding the sabbath?   ***— ASA, 2 May 2026***
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Apr 27, 2026, 11:36 AM
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