Sabbatarians have produced a plethora of explanations and rationales in an attempt to convince people they are required to observe the sabbath. What is lacking in all these rationales is a definitive statement in Scripture stating that Christians are to keep the sabbath. There is no “thus saith the Lord” in this regard. According to the Sabbatarian position, we are supposed to just assume God requires this of Christians; that God was therefore careless in spelling this out for Christians, despite the examples in Scripture where God is always quite specific and careful as to what he wanted various people to do at various times. The one question I have posed to Sabbatarians that they all refuse to answer is this: How can a person be required to keep the conditions of a covenant they were never a party to? Its like insisting my neighbor make payments to my finance company for the car I covenanted with them for. Yet this is indeed the result of the Sabbatarian logic. Christians were not commanded to keep the sabbath; Israelites were. Seeing as the answer destroys their position in regards to the codified law, they seek elsewhere for an explanation to justify their belief. It is nothing more than an exercise where a belief goes looking for Scriptural support. One must also stop and ask themselves how false beliefs are perpetrated and propagated. Seeing as there is never a “thus saith the Lord” for such teachings, one must resort to assumptions, rationalizations, and inferences. If one examines the explanations used to justify sabbath keeping, it is all too apparent these methods are being employed. The crux of the matter boils down to this in the end: Does one need to keep the sabbath in order to be saved, or maintain their salvation status with God? Many a Sabbatarian will state that it is by grace apart from law they are saved, but turn around and claim one puts their salvation at risk should they sin habitually, and they define one of these sins as not keeping the sabbath. So they do indeed claim one has to keep the sabbath in order to be saved, disguising this belief in semantics. With that said, following are the arguments put forth by Sabbatarians in an attempt to have people conclude they are required to keep and observe the sabbath.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 02:03:30 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015