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Multitudes of Christians refer to the seventh-day Sabbath as the "Jewish Sabbath," but there is no such expression in the Bible.
It is called "
the Sabbath of the Lord" (Exodus 20:10), for instance, but never "the Sabbath of the Jews." Luke was a Gentile writer of the New Testament and often made reference to things that were peculiarly Jewish - he wrote of the "nation of the Jews," the people of the Jews, the "land of the Jews," and the "synagogue of the Jews" (Acts 10:22; 12:11; 10:39; 14:1). However, Luke never referred to the "Sabbath of the Jews" although he mentioned ...
Upon tables of stone God wrote the great, unchanging law of the ages. Every word was serious and meaningful. Not one line was ambiguous or mysterious. Christians and non-Christians, educated and uneducated, have no problem understanding the simple, clear words of the Ten Commandments. God meant what He said and said what He meant.
Most of the ten begin with the same words: "You shall not," but right in the heart of the law, we find the fourth commandment introduced with the word "Remember." Why is this one different? God was commanding His people to call something to memory that existed but had been forgotten. Genesis describes the origin of the Sabbath ...
The idea of separate rest and worship days has recently started to catch on in some circles.
For instance, singer/songwriter Michael Card and singer Steven Green have said they rest on Sabbath but worship with local congregations on Sunday. However, this was not the practice of either Jesus or the apostle Paul. They didn't rest on the Sabbath and worship on Sunday (Luke 4:16; Acts 17:1, 2). We certainly applaud these men for recognizing the biblical truth of the seventh-day Sabbath rest, but, if we are going to worship the Creator (Revelation 14:7), why not do so on the day that He himself picked out? (Genesis 2:1).
When we get someone a gift, we often pick out something that we ourselves would ...
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It has reversed the fourth commandment by doing away with the Sabbath of God's Word, and instituting Sunday as a holiday.
Dr. N. Summerbell, History of the Christian Church, Third Edition, p. 415