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Originally Posted by mfblume
No breakdown. Evening to evening means end of daylight to end of daylight. That does not occur for weeks in the north and the south.
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Evening means when the sun approaches the horizon. So there are in fact 365 evenings in the arctic. Honestly, even if you were correct, it would only mean folks living in the extreme arctic or antarctic are exempt. Neither you nor I nor anyone reading this thread is living in such locations. It's like saying "baptism can't be required because somebody somewhere in a desert with no water can't be baptised".
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You mentioned that you cannot understand how people strive so much to avoid something in the Word.
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Some people read and study and pray to find out what God wants them to do. Other people read and study and pray to find out what they don't have to do.
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That's what I am seeing in this sabbath issue! Gal 4 distinctly says Law is gone with its days, months and years.
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If law is gone and this means we don't have to do what the 4th commandment says, then it means we don't have to do what the other commandments say, either. Also, you provide your summary statements of what Galatians says, but I find Galatians doesn't actually say what you say. We are to hold fast the form of sound words, and speak as the oracles of God. Therefore when we say "the Bible says X" but the Bible doesn't actually say "X", we are on dangerous ground.
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Sabbaths being a shadow means all of them, not barred. ANd the hoops one requires to insert pagan calendars and bypassing the conclusions from a simple read are puzzling to me.
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There are no hoops, it's simple grammar. As for shadows, that comes from Colossians and is referring to the judging, not the items for which the Colossian brethren were being judged.
The point of Galatians is NOT "make sure you don't do the things contained in the law" as if obedience to God is ever a bad unchristian thing. The point is SEEKING TO BE JUSTIFIED BY THE DEEDS OF THE LAW. And by the way "deeds of the law" isn't referring to obeying God's commandments, but was and is a well documented rabbinical idiom for adherance to sectarian halacha or "traditions of the elders", as it is well documented not only in talmudic lusage but in Qumran documents.