Subject: Keep the Sabbath Holy? |
Bible Note: Dear onlyme, Hebrews 4 is not about which day is the Sabbath. It simply uses the already extant change in the Sabbath -- and the reason for it -- as part of the argument being made in that passage. Hence, even at the time of the writing of this book, the practice had been established as normative by the church of that day. The old divines of the London Baptist Confession of Faith were simply restating the orthodoxy behind the orthopraxy. If you can't find a "clear cut answer" in Scripture, do not demean tradition. The old divines simply expressed the thought and practice of 2000 years of the Holy Spirit's guidance of the Saints. The strict Sabbitarian has a tendency to fall into an unhealthy nomianism, which thing is certainly unsupported by the clear doctrine of Scripture. In Him, Doc |