Ten Reasons I'm a Sabbatarian [moved thread]

[SabbathBlessings]

Logically, there can be no time markers whatsoever in an eternal environment. With God there is no such thing as the past or future. There is only NOW -- the present. And so it will be with us. This is why Revelation 21 teaches us that there will be no time markers in the New Heavens and New Earth.

Also, for your info, there are 3 tenses to salvation -- past, present and future. All true believers WERE justified once and for all at some point in the past, all are being sanctified presently and in the future all will be glorified. Therefore, the precious gift of eternal life is also in 3 tenses. All true believers have (presently) eternal life residing in our souls.

John 6:47
47 I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.
NIV

The passages that speak to eternal life as a future reality are speaking to the consummation of our salvation, i.e. our resurrection (glorification).

There is only one salvation and that is when Jesus comes. No one has eternal life now; it will be given on the last day. Those saved will greet Jesus in the air and will be with Him forever, those not saved to condemnation and death. 1 Thessalonians 4:16- 17, 1 Corinthians 15:51–53, Revelation 20:5-6 Isaiah 11:4, Revelation 20:11-15

John 6:40 And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

If we believe in Jesus, we should believe in His teachings.

Anyway, its been fun chatting, have to go for now.

God bless you in seeking His Word.

 

[Doran]

SB wrote:

Please quote anywhere in Romans 14 where it mentions the Sabbath commandment. If one of the commandments of God was going to be "removed" or "changed" the Sabbath commandment should at least be mentioned in the passage. This again is not referring to the Sabbath commandment, but the annual feast days. If you read in context the whole passage it is all about food and there is nothing in the Sabbath commandment that is about food. Exodus 20:8-11. Context is very important in scripture, which sadly seems to be the last consideration anymore.

A couple of things: By asking this question, are you implying that the sabbath day is not special to you?

Secondly, doesn't the sabbath fall on one day of the week?

Next, Rom 14:5-8 is another unqualified statement by Paul. Obviously, the sabbath is a day of religious observance, is it not? Would this not make the day more special or sacred over another to many people? If Paul wanted to qualify this passage he could have been far more explicit by referring to such days as feast days, festivals, etc. But instead, he chose to use the very generic and broad term of "day".

And for your info, pulling passages from various parts of the bible is not necessarily putting any given passage into context. The very first order of determining context is studying the immediate passages surrounding the one under consideration, then going to intermediate context of the book itself and then going outside the book to the more remote parts of scripture. I notice that your first order of business seems to jump to this last resort as your first.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

SB wrote:

Please quote anywhere in Romans 14 where it mentions the Sabbath commandment. If one of the commandments of God was going to be "removed" or "changed" the Sabbath commandment should at least be mentioned in the passage. This again is not referring to the Sabbath commandment, but the annual feast days. If you read in context the whole passage it is all about food and there is nothing in the Sabbath commandment that is about food. Exodus 20:8-11. Context is very important in scripture, which sadly seems to be the last consideration anymore.

A couple of things: By asking this question, are you implying that the sabbath day is not special to you?

Secondly, doesn't the sabbath fall on one day of the week?

Next, Rom 14:5-8 is another unqualified statement by Paul. Obviously, the sabbath is a day of religious observance, is it not? Would this not make the day more special or sacred over another to many people? If Paul wanted to qualify this passage he could have been far more explicit by referring to such days as feast days, festivals, etc. But instead, he chose to use the very generic and broad term of "day".

And for your info, pulling passages from various parts of the bible is not necessarily putting any given passage into context. The very first order of determining context is studying the immediate passages surrounding the one under consideration, then going to intermediate context of the book itself and then going outside the book to the more remote parts of scripture. I notice that your first order of business seems to jump to this last resort as your first.

The Sabbath commandment is never mentioned in Romans 14 so you are adding what is not there. What day God esteems over all days, is what matters and God spoke the day He esteemed over all other days in very clear and easy to understand scripture. Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:8-11, Isaiah 58:13. Romans 14 is not in reference to the weekly Sabbath as there is no food mentioned in the weekly Sabbath as it is a day of worship. Romans 14 is about food and being week of faith and judging.

The Sabbath is a commandment of God and there is no scripture stating we can break any of God's commandments including the 4th. The scripture you provided certainly does not say that.

 

[Doran]

Hi Doran,

Let's take a look at the third commandment which is supposedly restated in 1 Timothy.

1 Timothy 6:1 NIV
All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered.

1 Timothy 6:1 CEV
If you are a slave, you should respect and honor your owner. This will keep people from saying bad things about God and about our teaching.​

This is not a restatement of the command not to take the name of the Lord in vain. This is a directive to slaves not to provoke their owners to "keep people from saying bad things about God." It certainly appears this comment about owners of slaves likely isn't even directed toward believers. The third commandment is missing from the New Testament.

I find it interesting how dismissive you are about the Sabbath being addressed in Hebrews 4 but how willing you are to accept 1 Timothy as relevant to your position. Hebrews 4 is explicit in that the Sabbath rest that remains for the people of God is tied to "the seventh day" and to the rest that took place at "the creation of the world." That's pretty obvious isn't it?

Then too, if you're going to accept Matthew 4:10 as acceptable as a command referencing worshiping the Lord your God, then wouldn't you likewise be compelled to accept all Gospel references to the Sabbath as being equally relevant?

I pray this helps.

But for the grace of God go I,cyspark

Your interpretation of Hebrews 4 does not fit the context of chapters 3 and 4. I explained what "rest" was being referred here to SB. No one is saved by entering into the sabbath of the seventh day. However, people are saved by entering into the ultimate sabbath rest which is Christ the Lord of the Sabbath. When one puts his faith in Christ, he necessarily ceases from his [dead] works, since no one is justified by the works of the Law.

 

[Doran]

The Sabbath commandment is never mentioned in Romans 14 so you are adding what is not there.

The Sabbath is a commandment of God and there is no scripture stating we can break any of God's commandments including the 4th. The scripture you provided certainly does not say that.

You insist on putting words into my mouth. I never said that we're free to break any of God's commandments. But I am saying that since the 4th commandment is a ceremonial law by nature, and all ceremonial laws find their fulfillment in Christ, then we should strive to understand what God requires of us to keep that fourth commandment in this New Covenant dispensation.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

Your interpretation of Hebrews 4 does not fit the context of chapters 3 and 4. I explained what "rest" was being referred here to SB. No one is saved by entering into the sabbath of the seventh day. However, people are saved by entering into the ultimate sabbath rest which is Christ the Lord of the Sabbath. When one puts his faith in Christ, he necessarily ceases from his [dead] works, since no one is justified by the works of the Law.

There is no scripture that says Jesus is the Sabbath and we can break the 4th commandment. I offered to go through Hebrews 4 verse by verse with you and you will not find that Jesus is the Sabbath, or rest is the day of our choice or everyday. Hebrews 4 is about keeping the Sabbath rest Hebrews 4:9 which is on the seventh day Exodus 20:10 the same day God ceased from His works Genesis 2:1-3, Hebrews 4:4 which is the day we have to cease from our works Exodus 20:8-11 Hebrews 4:10 to enter into His rest. There is a warning to those who disobeyed did not enter into His rest Hebrews 4:6 and they disobeyed the Sabbath Ezekiel 20:13, and Hebrews 4:11 is a warning that we should not also follow the same path of disobedience

 

[SabbathBlessings]

You insist on putting words into my mouth. I never said that we're free to break any of God's commandments. But I am saying that since the 4th commandment is a ceremonial law by nature, and all ceremonial laws find their fulfillment in Christ, then we should strive to understand what God requires of us to keep that fourth commandment in this New Covenant dispensation.

I am not putting words in your mouth. I said there is no scripture stating we can break the commandments of God and thus far no one has provided this scripture, so we should obey God the way He has commanded us.

This is the Sabbath commandment:

Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

The rest of the scriptures adds to it, not changes or deletes, like you find in Leviticus 23:3 and Isaiah 58:13, much like the other 9 commandments in scripture. You appear to be wanting to change it and turn it into something that doesn't even look like the commandment the way God commanded His children
You will not find in scripture that says the weekly Sabbath is ceremonial, because God deemed it a commandment and part of the Ten Commandments Exodus 34:28, written in stone by the finger of God. Exodus 31:18 The Ten Commandments is what reveals sin 1 John 3:4, Romans 7:7 and what we will be judged by and when we break one of these commandments, we break them all. James 2:10-12.

Anyway, it appears we are not coming to an understanding on God's commandments, and this gets all sorted out soon enough. I appreciate the discussion now I really must go! God bless and take care.

 

[Leaf473]

The passage in Hebrews 4 is talking about a rest. There is no mention of a "sabbath" rest per se. And in order to understand that chapter, we need to understand chapter 3! There are different kinds of rests. One of the "rests" spoken of in the OT is the rest of the Promised Land! See 2Sam 7:1; Josh 21:44; 23:1; 1Ki 5:4; 2Chron 14:16; Prov 16:7; Lk 1:74-75. And I would suggest to you that this is precisely the rest that is alluded to in Hebrews 4 because the disobedient Israelites in the wilderness were not permitted to enter into the Promised Land -- into the Land of Milk and Honey, i.e. into God's rest! This is the entire point to Hebrews 4. The writer is warning the believing Jews, to whom he's primarily writing to persevere in the faith, to say strong because "we who have believed enter that rest" -- that rest being none other than Christ! The writer is not calling these Jewish believers to enter into the seventh day sabbath rest! He's talking about something far greater than that!

This is a call to persevere in the faith Heb 4:14ff and none of do that by entering into the seventh day sabbath. We do that by entering and abiding in the true Sabbath Rest who is none other than Christ.

That is a common theme in Hebrews:
Christ is greater than the prophets.
Christ is greater than the angels.
Christ is greater than Moses.

 

[Leaf473]

Logically, there can be no time markers whatsoever in an eternal environment. With God there is no such thing as the past or future. There is only NOW -- the present. And so it will be with us. This is why Revelation 21 teaches us that there will be no time markers in the New Heavens and New Earth.

Also, for your info, there are 3 tenses to salvation -- past, present and future. All true believers WERE justified once and for all at some point in the past, all are being sanctified presently and in the future all will be glorified. Therefore, the precious gift of eternal life is also in 3 tenses. All true believers have (presently) eternal life residing in our souls.

John 6:47
47 I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.
NIV

The passages that speak to eternal life as a future reality are speaking to the consummation of our salvation, i.e. our resurrection (glorification).

This came to my mind
1 John 5
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

 

[Leaf473]

But I am saying that since the 4th commandment is a ceremonial law by nature...

For me, that idea is supported by the scriptures not giving any instructions* about what to do in our modern times when we know that sunset moves around the Earth (meaning that the beginning of the Sabbath would also move).

*No instructions that I'm aware of.

 

[Bob S]

I am not putting words in your mouth. I said there is no scripture stating we can break the commandments of God and thus far no one has provided this scripture, so we should obey God the way He has commanded us.

Num10:10 Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”
May I remind you that feasts and new moons are commands from God just as was the ritual seventh-day. Please do not use the excuse that the new moon and feast were laws found in the Book of the Law that was done away, nailed to the Cross. All you are doing is shooting yourself in the foot because the SDA church gets its tithing and meat laws from that same Book of the Law. It is not possible to have it both ways SB.

The fact is the old covenant ended at the Cross. The laws of that covenant had to have ended too.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

Num10:10 Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”
May I remind you that feasts and new moons are commands from God just as was the ritual seventh-day. Please do not use the excuse that the new moon and feast were laws found in the Book of the Law that was done away, nailed to the Cross. All you are doing is shooting yourself in the foot because the SDA church gets its tithing and meat laws from that same Book of the Law. It is not possible to have it both ways SB.

The fact is the old covenant ended at the Cross. The laws of that covenant had to have ended too.

There is no mention of food or drink or burnt offerings in the Sabbath commandment. You are confusing the annual feasts days called sabbaths that are about sacrificial offerings all pointing to Jesus at the cross who became our sacrificial Lamb for the forgiveness of sin and sanctification. The Sabbath commandment is part of the Ten Commandments that is a unit of 10, not nine or 1. Exodus 34:28.

The Sabbath was before sin Genesis 2:1-3 and before the sacrificial system or annual sabbath(s) feasts day which came after the fall of man.

Jesus warns us about teaching others to break the commandments Matthew 5:19-30 and the Sabbath is a commandment of God despite the wide objection to it by man, but mans objection does not change these facts.

Here’s Sabbath commandment written by God’s own finger. It’s about keeping the seventh day Sabbath holy and resting from our works on God’s holy day.

Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

 

[Leaf473]

Num10:10 Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”
May I remind you that feasts and new moons are commands from God just as was the ritual seventh-day. Please do not use the excuse that the new moon and feast were laws found in the Book of the Law that was done away, nailed to the Cross. All you are doing is shooting yourself in the foot because the SDA church gets its tithing and meat laws from that same Book of the Law. It is not possible to have it both ways SB.

The fact is the old covenant ended at the Cross. The laws of that covenant had to have ended too.

That's the difficulty, isn't it? Trying to deal with just part of the book of the law.

 

[Doran]

Hi Him,

Thanks for the greeting!

Let's take a look at Hebrews 4:

1 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. 2 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. 3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said,

“So I declared on oath in my anger,
‘They shall never enter my rest.’”​

And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. 4 For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.” 5 And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”

6 Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience, 7 God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:​

So you interpret v.5 above as God saying that "they shall never enter into the sabbath rest of the seventh day?

And v. 6 says that those "who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in", then it's begging to be asked, "go in" where? Or "go in" what?
​

 

[Doran]

There is no mention of food or drink or burnt offerings in the Sabbath commandment. You are confusing the annual feasts days called sabbaths that are about sacrificial offerings all pointing to Jesus at the cross who became our sacrificial Lamb for the forgiveness of sin and sanctification. The Sabbath commandment is part of the Ten Commandments that is a unit of 10, not nine or 1. Exodus 34:28.

The Sabbath was before sin Genesis 2:1-3 and before the sacrificial system or annual sabbath(s) feasts day which came after the fall of man.

Jesus warns us about teaching others to break the commandments Matthew 5:19-30 and the Sabbath is a commandment of God despite the wide objection to it by man, but mans objection does not change these facts.

Here’s Sabbath commandment written by God’s own finger. It’s about keeping the seventh day Sabbath holy and resting from our works on God’s holy day.

Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

But there is no biblical record that anyone observed the seventh day sabbath prior to Exodus 16. In fact, Exodus 16 leaves the distinct impression that the ancient Israelites were hearing about observing the sabbath for the first time.

 

[Leaf473]

But there is no biblical record that anyone observed the seventh day sabbath prior to Exodus 16. In fact, Exodus 16 leaves the distinct impression that the ancient Israelites were hearing about observing the sabbath for the first time.

That's an interesting observation about Exodus 16. It does sound like the Israelites are surprised to learn about this whole Gather for 6 days and not on the 7th idea.

 

[Doran]

Did you write this or is it a cut and paste from somewhere? Historic Christian Church since the beginning? You are mistakenly mislead. The Apostolic Age which is covered in Scriptures spans 30-100 AD. Nowhere in the Holy Writ is the Sabbath of the Decalogue nullified.

It is sabbaths not the Sabbath in verse 16.
Please follow along. We will look at the context. Verse 10-13 is a good place to start. We are complete in Him, circumcised in the putting off the body of sins. Buried with Him dead in our sins and the uncircumcision of our flesh. Wherein also we are risen with Him, quickened together with Him through faith. Forgiving all tresspasses.

Col 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Col 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

Col 2:13 And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses;

Blotting out the handwriting of the (to the) decrees, having been quickened together with Him, all tresspasses forgiven there is no need for the Handwriting to the (of the) Decrees. Therefore let no man Judge you from the Handwritings of the (to the) Decrees. In which also the meat and drink offerings, holy days and sabbaths are recorded, handwritten.


Col 2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of the decrees that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
Col 2:15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Col 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:




Except The 4th commandment.
For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)
But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach.
That which was written on Stone is now to be in and of our hearts, faith through the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God.
Heb 8:10; Rom 10:6-8; 2 Cor. 3:3,4



We are to worship God everyday and gather to worship and fellowship as much as possible in and through Christ. But the Sabbath as recorded in the Decalogue is a the Day of rest God choose for us in honor of creation. In this rest we are to keep our activities holy through and in Christ not necessarily gather for worship as a congregation.

Exod 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exod 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Exod 20:10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exod 20:11 For (Because) in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.



Catholic Dogma. Jesus is recorded as proclaiming Himself as Lord of the Sabbath. So if we are to speculate which Day is the Lord's Day then it would be the Day in which He has proclaim to be Lord of. Not the Day that the Apostate Church which persecuted and killed Christian said is through the few papers which they preserved through their Apostasy.

If we have the Faith of CHrist, God's law, His Word, Christ in our hearts, minds and mouths it is no longer a matter of the letter, tables of stone, but of the heart, faith. For we who have been baptised in CHrist have put on Christ. Putting off the body of sins which are of the flesh: by whose stripes we were healed.

Just for everyone's info, here's how the NIV reads for Col 2:16:

Col 2:16
16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day.
NIV

The term "days" isn't in the manuscripts. However, even if the term were in the Gr. manuscripts, it wouldn't change the context because we know that there are multiple sabbaths mentioned in scripture, including the weekly sabbath. But even more importantly, it's significant that Paul actually mentions both types of sabbaths in one breath -- the "festivals" and "new moons" representing annual sabbaths, whereas "a Sabbath day" would have to mean the weekly sabbath, otherwise Paul would be absurdly redundant.

Moreover, what Paul says makes sense because we know the 4th commandment was unique among the other 9 due to it's ceremonial-ritualistic nature, which is further reinforced since this is the only commandment that served as a SIGN of the Mosiac Covenant. So, indeed...the 4th commandment, too, like all the other sabbaths was a foreshadow of Christ.

 

[Doran]

That's an interesting observation about Exodus 16. It does sound like the Israelites are surprised to learn about this whole Gather for 6 days and not on the 7th idea.

What's equally as interesting is that Ex 16:23 is the very first mention of the term "sabbath" in the bible! And to whom was this first commanded? It was given to God's covenant people.

 

[Doran]

The Sabbath commandment is never mentioned in Romans 14 so you are adding what is not there. What day God esteems over all days, is what matters and God spoke the day He esteemed over all other days in very clear and easy to understand scripture. Genesis 2:1-3, Exodus 20:8-11, Isaiah 58:13. Romans 14 is not in reference to the weekly Sabbath as there is no food mentioned in the weekly Sabbath as it is a day of worship. Romans 14 is about food and being week of faith and judging.

The Sabbath is a commandment of God and there is no scripture stating we can break any of God's commandments including the 4th. The scripture you provided certainly does not say that.

But the sabbath is logically inferred! Again, I ask: Since you're a sabbatarian, do you not consider or esteem the weekly sabbath to be a special or sacred day? Or is the sabbath to you just like every other day? If the latter, why do you make such big deal of the weekly sabbath? But if it's the former, then Paul's words in Rom 14:5 apply perfectly to people like you...and to people like myself, since I hold to a contrary position on this issue.

 

[SabbathBlessings]

But there is no biblical record that anyone observed the seventh day sabbath prior to Exodus 16. In fact, Exodus 16 leaves the distinct impression that the ancient Israelites were hearing about observing the sabbath for the first time.

According to God, the seventh day is the Sabbath...

Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is the sabbath to the Lord your God.

Lets go to the very beginning at Creation...

Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. 2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

Lets compare this to the 4th commandment:

Exodus 20:8“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.


The first word is "remember" that's because it is something that already happened at creation and vs 11 brings us right back to creation in which the seventh day was set apart for holy use right at creation.

Jesus said the Sabbath was made for man. Mark 2:27

Man was created in the image of God on the sixth day right before the first Sabbath, celebrated in the presence of God. Sin separated man from God, but once Jesus returns man will once again worship the Lord every Sabbath in His presence Isaiah 66:22-23 the way God always intended. Until than we are to keep His Sabbath holy per the commandment of God through His Spirit, on His holy Sabbath day.

Your disagreement about God's holy Sabbath day is not really with me, I'm not the one that needs to be convinced why this commandment should be forgotten, when God told us to Remember.