ADDED NOTATIONS ON SABBATH OBSERVANCE
ADDED NOTATIONS ON SABBATH OBSERVANCE
Virgil Warren, PhD
Discussions with seventh-day Christians include five questions. (1) The first question asks for the scripture basis for “changing” Saturday to Sunday as the day of observance. That question miswords the issue. It “begs the question” by assuming that the issue involves a change from one day to the other. Our approach notes that Sabbath was a memorial of the exodus, a Jewish national holiday; so there is no basis for Sabbath observance outside the context of Jewish national life. There will be no “scripture basis” for “changing” from Sabbath to Sunday, because there was no “change.” The two items are not in series but in parallel. The two days have different meanings relative to different “nations” and different founding events. It is not a matter of one continuing entity changing one of its national holidays from one day to another. Since this matter relates to the change of covenants, consult the essay entitled “Old Testament Covenants and the Messianic Covenant.”
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NOTABLE POINTS ABOUT SABBATH
Virgil Warren, PhD
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SUNDAY WORSHIP
Virgil Warren, PhD
1. Worship on Saturday after sundown
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