LaryP2,
re: "The Sabbath and the Resurrection do not mix."
What do you mean by that statement? They don't mix, how?
I'll start off with a Baptist position:
"Seventh Day Adventists deny the resurrection by observing the Sabbath. We come to church on Sunday, the Lord's Day, to worship Him who "died for our sins, and rose again for our justification." We worship a living Savior, and with thanksgiving, can sing:
"He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today!"
If I worship Christ on Saturday I deny that His work is finished, that He is a resurrected, living Savior."
Why I Am A Baptist And Not A Seventh Day Adventist
Seventh Day Adventist posts demanding that Christians keep the Sabbath overwhelmingly outnumber their posts on the Resurrection and the Grace that it delivered once and for all. Their "Sabbath" posts outnumber their "Resurrection" posts approximately 500,000 to one. Why this heretical behaviiro is allowed on a Christian website is just mystifying, especially when the history of Christianity is so clear: Sabbath Keeping was fought as an evil, anti-Christian heresy from the beginning of Christianity.
That is the unanimous position of the First and Second Century Church Fathers who were discipled by the Apostles. Sabbath Keeping was seen from the beginning as a Satanic, anti-Christian heresy. The heresy went by a number of names such as Galatians, Ebionite, and Judaizing heresies. These heresies were forcibly denounced, condemned and excommunicated from the beginnings of Christianity. Ignatius of Antioch, who was directly discipled by both the Apostle John, and the Apostle Peter, who Ignatius replaced as Bishop of Antioch, fought hard to keep the Christian fellowship united:
"As therefore the Lord did nothing without the Father, being united to Him, neither by Himself nor by the apostles, so neither do anything without the bishop and presbyters. Neither endeavor that anything appear reasonable and proper to yourselves apart; but being come together into the same place, let there be one prayer, one supplication, one mind, one hope, in love and in joy undefined.
The deceptive Judaizing/Ebionite Sabbath-Keeping heresy was the prime anti-Christian force within the late-First and early-second Century Christianity:
"Be not deceived with strange doctrines, nor with old fables, which are unprofitable. For if we still live according to the Jewish law, we acknowledge that we have not received grace."
Thus, any attempt to follow the Mosaic law was seen as directly contrary to the explicit instructions of the Apostles:
"If, therefore, those who were brought up in the ancient order of things have come to the possession of a new hope, no longer observing the Sabbath, but living in the observance of the Lord's Day, on which also our life has sprung up again by Him and by His death— whom some deny, by which mystery we have obtained faith, and therefore endure, that we may be found the disciples of Jesus Christ, our only Master...."
LETTER TO THE MAGNESIUMS
CHURCH FATHERS: Epistle to the Magnesians (St. Ignatius)
This brave martyr for Christ was on his way to be fed to the lions at the Roman Coliseum in AD 107 when this letter was written. It was the unanimous view of the Early Christian Church and was repeated constantly. The dangerous, anti-Christian evil of Sabbath Keeping was fought tooth and nail by these brave men, as contrary to the Resurrection and the New Birth of Christianity.
