That crazy Apostle Malm is just full of it today! Apparently if you make something in a crock pot for Sabbath lunch or diner it needs to be cooked before sundown on Friday and then just warmed up. However, it seems that turning the pot on again for reheating and/or using a microwave to reheat food is crossing the line into committing sabbath sin. It all just gets so confusing! Pretty soon it will be a can of sardines and some crackers. Then the question will be is it "work" to open the can or the cracker bag?
A Malmite comments:
The definition of cooking is to prepare food by applying heat. I
know you commented on this last week, but wouldn’t a zealous man for
God’s law not walk the fine line between cooking and heating. A crock
pot is applying heat to warm the food including the microwave oven. I
agree we need to have wisdom in these areas but shall we tread on the
fine lines of God’s law?
The apostate Apostle responds:
I respect and appreciate your zeal, as I am sure God does also. James
I disagree, a microwave oven does not apply heat, it subjects your food to an oscillating electromagnetic field, which causes dipole molecules with imbalanced charges, such as water molecules, to spin.
ReplyDeleteI expect a good rabbi would decree that the crock pot is a sin because it involves the application of heat, but to microwave it is not, because the bible is silent about electromagnetism.
He should go live in a friggin tent in the Sinai dessert and not leave his tent all day long on the sabbath. Would that make him happy ????
ReplyDeleteI bet he would have condemned Jesus if he saw him picking corn on the Sabbath.
Since when Malm, was man made for the Sabbath, or Sabbath made for man?
I hear in South Orange, NJ the Jews turn their taps on at sunset so they have water flowing all day. Wanna go live there?
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ReplyDeletePerhaps should be more concerned with "Crack Pot Sin" and not so much Crock pot?
ReplyDeleteM.T.Cranium
What a crock!
ReplyDeleteThe only "rules" I believe God gave to Israel about the Sabbath were: 1) Don't go out of your dwelling place (Ex 16:29); 2) Don't bake or boil (Ex 16:23); 3) Don't work (Ex 34:21); 4) Don't build a fire (Ex 35:3); 5) Don't carry a load (Jer 17:27; Neh 1:15); 6) Don't buy or sell (Neh 10:31; Amos 8:5); 7) Don't do your own pleasure (Isa 58:13-4). What is important to understand about these "rules" is that they all hark back to the sinless creation rest that Adam and Eve would've experienced before they sinned. For instance, 1) they didn't leave the garden until after they sinned; 2) they didn't need to cook as they ate their food fresh from the garden; 3) they didn't "work" until after they sinned and whatever is meant by "to dress it and to keep it" was certainly not work as we know it; 4) they didn't need to make a fire for warmth as the climate was perfect; 5) they didn't have to carry a load or burden and didn't need to store their crops for the winter; 6) they didn't have to purchase anything as everything was free; 7) they were in perfect fellowship with God. I think imbedded within these "rules" are principles that can be used individually for a positive Sabbath experience, but to be dogmatic and split hairs about it is to tread a fine line of legalism and sef-righteousness. An excellent resource in this regard is former Adventist Dale Ratzlaff's Sabbath In Christ. And regarding whether using a crock pot or a microwave is sin I think it should be left up to the individual as Ratzlaff notes, "...when one really sets out to observe the Sabbath according to biblical guidelines there are hundreds of 'gray areas' that must be addressed" (p. 189). There are even some Christians I know of who believe the Sabbath and feasts were meant to be kept only by the Israelites in the Holy Land whose climate was much more conducive to such "rules" unlike Alaska or Scandinavia, for instance. So maybe we'll find that our Creator is much more merciful and less judgmental than we make Him out to be. I mean is He really going to be upset over someone who heats up frozen peas because to them it was no more "work" than to reheat the ones which were cooked the day before?! Or someone who is sick, old or cold and flicks on the heater to stay warm?! I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteAfter the Jews had the terrible experience of going into captivity, they were desperate to never repeating the experience. Their solution? Over 600 "laws" and picky "rules" to keep the Sabbath. In one of the Israeli hotels, the elevators run all day on the Sabbath and stop at every floor so no one will have to go to the work of pushing a button; toilet paper is pre-torn, so no one will have to go to the work of tearing it (one wonders about flushing -- maybe it is automatic too with sensors).
ReplyDeleteArmstrongists have found that it's just not working. The Tribulation just hasn't started (or has it?). Promises are delayed. Prophecies have failed. It is clear that the whole thing is a failure.
What to do, what to do?
Make up ever more restrictive rules like the Pharisees. (Maybe if they yell and cut themselves with knives?) It gets crazier and crazier.
Herbert Armstrong started with a wrong premise that British Israelism is the Key to Prophecy. That is a lie and a total fraud. We've proved it. Armstrongists prove it with their failed prophecies. DNA proves it.
It's the old con game: When you see your investment failing, dump the rest of your resources into it in an act of desperation.
And thereby, the Armstrongists are left bankrupt not just financially, but spiritually as well.
Amazing! He continues to attempt to find and impliment the most detailed aspects of a covenant which has been fulfilled, and no longer exists, due to the death of one of the original parties to that covenant!
ReplyDeleteIsn't this what we should have learned from the intertestamental period, during which emerging Pharisees and Hassids attempted to introduce basically the same types of stringencies to keep Jews from lapsing into Helenism? Didn't we read Jesus' corrections to all of that in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
This stuff Malm is preaching is most certainly neither Christian, nor New Covenant!
BB