Subject: Keep the Sabbath Holy? |
Bible Note: Doc, I realize that Hebrews 4 is not about which day is the Sabbath, I didn't mean to imply that it did. I'm not sure what 'already extant' change you are referring to, as I can determine no scriptural change in the Sabbath at all. Next, I'm wondering which change you claim had been established as normative at that time, since this (the writing of the book of Hebrews) was only 30 years or so after Jesus' Resurrection. I have not read the London Baptist Confession of Faith other than what has been quoted by you and some others, however there is a line in your quote of it that ends "the observation of the last day of the week being abolished." I can find absolutely no mention of that in scripture. Are you equating those writings with scripture? Finally I do not demean tradition, but in this case I am simply trying to understand it. 'This case' in this instance is really not one tradition but two, Sabbath worship vs. Sunday worship, both of which have existed as tradition for a very long time. I do agree that the SDA folks seem to have fallen into a mire of legalism, which is, as you say, unhealthy just as it was for the Pharisees. Thank you again for your time and thoughts. |