A14 : by Tony Garland
Regarding feast days, we uphold the teaching of the
apostles:
One person esteems [one] day above another; another esteems every day
[alike]. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. He who observes the day,
observes [it] to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he
does not observe [it]. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks;
and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.
(Ro 14:5-6)
But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how [is
it that] you turn again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire
again to be in bondage? You observe days and months and seasons and years. I
am afraid for you, lest I have labored for you in vain. (Ga
4:9-11)
So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or
a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the
substance is of Christ. (Col 2:16-17)
In other words, those who want to keep feast days can do so
(but not for righteousness). Those who do not are equally free not to do
so.
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