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Bible Question: Who will claim the reward? I think some of the answers given here are excellent answers but will it satisfy an SDA?

Re: need help with Sabbath question Hot news item!

TESTING THE FAITH
Sunday, holy Sunday?
Pastor resurrects Sabbath debatewith 1 million reward

By Joe Kovacs
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com

One of the longest running disputes in the history of Christianity -
Saturday vs. Sunday - is having new life breathed into it with a cash reward
of up to 1 million toward a resolution.

A. Jan Marcussen, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Illinois, is starting
with 50,000 of his own money if someone can produce "a verse from the Holy
Bible showing that God commands us to keep holy the first day of the week" -
Sunday - "instead of the seventh day" - Saturday - "as is commanded in the
Bible."

He says the reward will increase in 25,000 increments each week for 40
consecutive weeks if no one sends him such a verse, with a final cap at 1
million.

"The 50,000 offer is to wake people up out of a stupor," Marcussen tells
WorldNetDaily. "People wake up when there's money involved."

A. Jan Marcussen and wife Vennita
Marcussen, who says he has the money ready to pay if someone is successful,
is making the offer to encourage people to read the Bible for themselves,
instead of accepting without question what religious leaders have been
instructing.

"Millions of people believe and have confidence in their clergy that what
they're being taught is true," says Marcussen. "They'll find out that the
clergy is not teaching from the Bible."

Marcussen, 52, is not only a preacher in his local church, he's also a
physical therapist, nutritionist, marriage counselor and author of six
books. One of those works, "National Sunday Law," focuses on the
Saturday-vs.-Sunday debate. Marcussen is asking people to read that book
before applying for the reward. (It can be downloaded for free from his
website.)

As a college student in the 1970s, Marcussen made a similar, albeit smaller,
challenge. He posted an ad in a local newspaper starting with a 500 reward
and ending up at 1,000. "Certain preachers really got excited," he says.
"But the only thing they couldn't do was produce a Bible verse [as proof]."

Experts on biblical scripture tell WorldNetDaily that Marcussen has little
need to worry about paying out the money.

"I am afraid that you are not going to find an exact Bible verse to counter
the good pastor's challenge and collect," says James Efird, professor of
biblical interpretation at Duke University Divinity School in North
Carolina. "As far as I know, there is no verse which specifies that Sunday
is the day for Christians to observe the Sabbath."

Indeed, neither the words Saturday nor Sunday appear anywhere in most
translations of the Bible. Days of the week are referred to by number,
starting in the first chapter of Genesis in the account of creation. It was after the work of creating that God made special note of one day of the
week: "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in
it he had rested from all his work which God created and made" (Genesis
2:3).

In the Ten Commandments, the seventh day was made the focus of the fourth
mandate: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy ... thou shalt not do
any work ... For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and
all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed
the sabbath day, and hallowed it" (Exodus 20:8-11).

The word sabbath comes from the Hebrew root word "shabbat," meaning to rest,
cease or desist. Scholars say the word in Bible scripture not only refers to
the weekly day of rest, but also the annual festivals of God such as
Passover and Day of Atonement. It additionally refers to a sabbatical year,
and it's the term denoting one week. The phrase "first day of the week"
occurs eight times in the King James translation of the New Testament,
mostly dealing with the circumstances of Jesus' resurrection.

In the lexicon of modern society, the debate over which day is holy - that
is, set apart to God - goes unresolved by the editors of Webster's New World
College Dictionary. While the first definition of sabbath calls it "the
seventh day of the week (Saturday), set aside for rest and worship and
observed as such by Jews (from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset) and some
Christian denominations," its second meaning defines it as "Sunday as the
usual Christian day of rest and worship."

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Bible Answer: What day to keep holy? How about EVERY DAY. I guess I fall into the "esteem every day" catagory. Thank you Jesus!

Rom 14:5 One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day [alike]. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Rom 14:6 He that regardeth the day, regardeth [it] unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard [it]. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.