Neon You taking Romans 14 out of context. That verse is saying that days approved by God under the Mosaic law may be judged the same or special. still, no one should impute any saving religious importance to those days. You can find this out in Galatians 4:8-11.
No, I'm doing no such thing. If I am, please point out the "context" that I have ignored in Romans. I included the surrounding verses in my quote specifically so that I could not be accused of taking it out of context. But go ahead, read the whole chapter, and the ones surrounding it, too. What you claim it says is not in there.
You've given the standard Watchtower response to this scripture, which is to say that Paul was writing only about Jewish holy days, even though there is no contextual evidence that that is what he was talking about. The Watchtower has to advance this sort of argument, because the scriptures, read as written, do not support their teachings. Nothing unusual there.
You are correct in saying that in Galatians, Paul is discussing the Jewish festivals. But a quotation from Galatians does not serve as "context" for a passage in Romans. There is absolutely no indication in Romans that Paul was discussing only days celebrated under the Law; he was writing in much broader terms in Romans than in Galatians.
Remember, Galatians was written specifically to strengthen the Christians against the teachings of Judaizers, who wanted to enforce the traditions of the law within the Christian church. It was appropriate in that context for Paul to take the broad principle stated in Romans 14, and make specific application of it to the situation facing the Galatians. But that does not mean that the principle as stated in Romans is confined to that one application.
To put it simply, in Romans, Paul states a general principle - that each one should act within his own conscience and honor the Lord in either the celebrating, or not celebrating, of certain days. In Galatians, he applies that principle to a specific case that the Galatians were facing.
