Is Doing Homework on the Sabbath Sin?

[twin1954]

I obviously disagree because the bible is historic and dispensationalism is biblical.

As said earlier if you aren't observing Jewish Law you are in practice dispensational whether you like the name or not.

I think there is a lot of learn from Scofield, Ryrie and the like. I personally like John Macarthur the best though.

We are so far apart here I see no point in continued discussion between us on the matter. It won't go anywhere good.

I have listened to John Macarthur many times and he is without doubt a dispensational legalist. His Lordship salvation is nothing but an application of law to the Gospel. It is subtle to be sure but nonetheless legalism.

 

[twin1954]

I have listened to John Macarthur many times and he is without doubt a dispensational legalist. His Lordship salvation is nothing but an application of law to the Gospel. It is subtle to be sure but nonetheless legalism.

Sorry DD but I couldn't resist. I know you value the teaching of Macaurther but at least consider what I said. I won't say any more for fear of offending you.

 

[the particular baptist]

I obviously disagree because the bible is historic and dispensationalism is biblical.

Yes the Bible is historic. The Bible is about Jesus and His gospel, from #1 to #66.

As said earlier if you aren't observing Jewish Law you are in practice dispensational whether you like the name or not.

Dispensation is very different than dispensational theology.

I think there is a lot of learn from Scofield, Ryrie and the like. I personally like John Macarthur the best though.

Scofield was an infidel. Read his biography yourself. Read the correspondence he had with his wife and girls that he abandoned after his supposed "conversion". Ryrie was a will worshiper who hated the God of the Bible. You do realize that every will worshiper is also a dispensationalist ? True, a tiny minority profess the doctrines of grace, MacArthurites, thats it. Tiny minority. More and more people are finding out which rock they were hewn from, and its not Scofield, and leaving dispensationalism behind like a bad dream.

We are so far apart here I see no point in continued discussion between us on the matter. It won't go anywhere good.

DD, you are the one far from historic baptist theology.

 

[Osage Bluestem]

Yes the Bible is historic. The Bible is about Jesus and His gospel, from #1 to #66.



Dispensation is very different than dispensational theology.



Scofield was an infidel. Read his biography yourself. Read the correspondence he had with his wife and girls that he abandoned after his supposed "conversion". Ryrie was a will worshiper who hated the God of the Bible. You do realize that every will worshiper is also a dispensationalist ? True, a tiny minority profess the doctrines of grace, MacArthurites, thats it. Tiny minority. More and more people are finding out which rock they were hewn from, and its not Scofield, and leaving dispensationalism behind like a bad dream.



DD, you are the one far from historic baptist theology.

Wow. You really despise dispensationalism. You should write Macarthur a sternly worded letter using all of your colorful language and see if he replies.

So I suppose you wouldn't do homework on a Sunday?

I would. I see no sin in it. I don't believe Sunday is the Sabbath and I don't believe those in Christ have to observe the Old Testament Sabbath laws. So, I will tell the young man to use his time wisely and don't fear doing homework on Sunday, there's nothing wrong with it.

 

[dewba]

As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you...
1 John 2:27

 

[the particular baptist]

Wow. You really despise dispensationalism. You should wrote Macarthur a sternly worded letter using all of your colorful language and see if he replies.

Mr MacArthur is in the microscopic minority when it comes to his hermeneutic vs 5 centuries of baptist history and 18+ centuries of Christian history. No need to write him.

So I suppose you wouldn't do homework on a Sunday?

I would. I see no sin in it. I don't believe Sunday is the Sabbath and I don't believe those in Christ have to observe the Old Testament Sabbath laws. So, I will tell the young man to use his time wisely and don't fear doing homework on Sunday, there's nothing wrong with it.

Ofcourse i would. Everything in the law and the prophets were a type of the reality fulfilled in Christ and His Church. Christ is the believers Sabbath, jew and gentile believer now made one, He is their Sabbath. The gospel is the believers rule of life not Sinai. The law was and always will be the ministration of death.

The Church is Israel fulfilled. The Church is Israel filled full.

 

[RefCath]

Would doing homework on the Sabbath be sin? And would it be sinful to do any sort of recreational activities?

I would certainly say that doing homework on the sabbath is wrong and I would say that whilst not all recreation is wrong on the sabbath some certainly is.

This is a helpful article:

This view of the Sabbath helps us deal with the question “Is it ok to do … on Sunday? — because I don’t have any time to do it in the rest of the week?” If this is our question, the problem is not how we use Sunday, it is how we are misusing the rest of the week.
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I'd recommend John Frame's The Doctrine of the Christian Life and Stuart Bryan's The Taste of Sabbath.