Subject: Keep the Sabbath Holy? |
Bible Note: Doc, thank you for the response, and thank you for pointing out Hebrews 4: to me. What I think I read there indicates that the 'rest' we need is not so much a cessation of labor, but an experience of God's Rest. Also, the accent is no longer on a single specific day of the week (Sabbath) but it is on Today, meaning every day. Therefore every day we need to be resting in God. However, there is also a reference to 'Sabbath-rest'. Does this mean resting on the Sabbath, or does this mean a Sabbath-like rest Today (and every day)? As to your explanation that "Christ finished His work on the first day of the week" I must say I've never heard it phrased like that before but that is certainly one way to look at it. Is there a passage in scripture that you were quoting? 1 Corinthians 16:1,2 is only talking about collecting money on the first day of the week, not relevant to this discussion that I can see. The same holds true for Acts 20:7 which describes Paul breaking bread and later on raising Eutychus from the dead. Revelation 1:10 is about a vision that God gives to John. All three of these verses mention the first day of the week, however there is no apparent significance to the day, and nothing that I can see there to support the assertion in the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith that "...the observation of the last day of the week being abolished" is valid. There seems to be no clear cut answer, which is a shame. There are valid arguments and scripture supporting both views of Sabbath keeping and Sunday Worship. |