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William,

I anticipated that someone would try and use the Exodus passage as justification for abstaining from meal preparation. That's why I gave a NEW TESTAMENT example (the NT interprets the OT) with the Lord Jesus Christ Himself as the one Who declares how the Sabbath should be kept in word and in example. The Pharisees constantly upbraided and condemned Him for breaking the Sabbath. However, He certainly did not break the Sabbath by anything He did. The problem was that the Pharisees ADDED TO God's law with their own erroneous interpretation and ideas. And these additions became equal with Scripture (do I hear Roman Catholicism?).

Now, IF the Exodus 16 passage is to be held as a universal principle to which one must adhere to rightly observe the Sabbath Day, then the Pharisees were correct and Jesus Christ was guilty as charged. Personally, I have no desire to go there.

Again, we must be very careful not to impose man's tradition(s) upon the conscience as if they were written in stone by the very finger of God Himself. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

In His grace,