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Hi, I would like to once again challenge those Christians who keep a weekly Sabbath.
For clarification - is this a challenge to Christians that keep the Bible Sabbath as Saturday as well as to all Sunday keeping Christians that affirm all TEN of the Ten commandments as being included in the moral law of God written on the heart under the New Covenant??
So then your challenge is also to those who agree with the following sources where they affirm the Bible detail that the TEN (all TEN) are included in the moral law of God binding on all mankind since Eden.
The Baptist Confession of Faith,
the Westminster Confession of Faith ,
D.L. Moody,
R.C Sproul,
Matthew Henry,
Thomas Watson
Eastern Orthodox Catechism
The Catholic Catechism.
Is that your intent?
To show the Sabbath is a moral obligation for all Sabbath keepers generally argue the Ten Commandments embody the principles of morality. They draw on ideas such as, “These Ten were written with the finger of God”
I take that as "a yes" from your OP.
from: The 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith (with Modern Features)
Chapter 19. Of the Law of God
1. God gave to Adam a law of universal obedience written in his heart, and a particular precept of not eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil; 1 by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience; 2 promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon the breach of it, and endued him with power and ability to keep it. 3
1. Genesis 1:27; Ecclesiastes 7:292. Romans 10:5
3. Galatians 3:10, 12
2. The same law that was first written in the heart of man continued to be a perfect rule of righteousness after the fall, 4 and was delivered by God upon Mount Sinai, in ten commandments, and written in two tables, the four first containing our duty towards God, and the other six, our duty to man. 5
4. Romans 2:14-15
5. Deuteronomy 10:4
3. Besides this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, sufferings, and benefits; 6 and partly holding forth divers instructions of moral duties, 7 all which ceremonial laws being appointed only to the time of reformation, are, by Jesus Christ the true Messiah and only law-giver, who was furnished with power from the Father for that end abrogated and taken away. 8
6. Hebrews 10:1; Colossians 2:177. 1 Corinthians 5:7
8. Colossians 2:14,16-17; Ephesians 2:14,16
4. To them also he gave sundry judicial laws, which expired together with the state of that people, not obliging any now by virtue of that institution; their general equity only being of modern use. 9
9. 1 Corinthians 9:8-10
5. The moral law does for ever bind all, as well justified persons as others, to the obedience thereof, 10 and that not only in regard of the matter contained in it, but also in respect of the authority of God the Creator, who gave it; 11 neither does Christ in the Gospel any way dissolve, but much strengthen this obligation. 12
10. Romans 13:8-10; James 2:8, 10-1211. James 2:10, 11
12. Matthew 5:17-19; Romans 3:31
6. Although true believers are not under the law as a covenant of works, to be thereby justified or condemned, 13 yet it is of great use to them as well as to others, in that as a rule of life, informing them of the will of God and their duty, it directs and binds them to walk accordingly; discovering also the sinful pollutions of their natures, hearts, and lives, so as examining themselves thereby, they may come to further conviction of, humiliation for, and hatred against, sin; 14 together with a clearer sight of the need they have of Christ and the perfection of his obedience; it is likewise of use to the regenerate to restrain their corruptions, in that it forbids sin; and the threatenings of it serve to show what even their sins deserve, and what afflictions in this life they may expect for them, although freed from the curse and unallayed rigour thereof. The promises of it likewise show them God's approbation of obedience, and what blessings they may expect upon the performance thereof, though not as due to them by the law as a covenant of works; so as man's doing good and refraining from evil, because the law encourages to the one and deters from the other, is no evidence of his being under the law and not under grace. 15
13. Romans 6:14; Galatians 2:16; Romans 8:1, 10:414. Romans 3:20, 7:7, etc.
15. Romans 6:12-14; 1 Peter 3:8-13
7. Neither are the aforementioned uses of the law contrary to the grace of the Gospel, but do sweetly comply with it, 16 the Spirit of Christ subduing and enabling the will of man to do that freely and cheerfully which the will of God, revealed in the law, requires to be done. 17
16. Galatians 3:2117. Ezekiel 36:27
Which is pretty much the same reading as we find in the Westminster Confession of Faith section 19 , and is the same argument D.L. Moody makes for the Sabbath in Eden etc.
Similarly Sabbath keepers believe because nine of the Ten commandments remain unchangeable, the Sabbath law also remains unchangeable. In other words because it is listed with moral laws, it must be moral.
Just to clarify terms -- are you including all the Sunday keeping groups I have just listed as "Sabbath keepers" for the sake of your topic?
So then the "New Covenant" is the one where the LAW of God known to Jeremiah and his readers - which includes the WORD of God spoken at Sinai to Israel and "written on stone" -- is written on heart and mind under the NEW Covenant.
As I have pointed out many times before.
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These ten are the ones where the "first commandment with a promise" is the 5th commandment as Paul points out in Eph 6:1-2
As I have pointed out many times before.
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As for the Sabbath for all eternity for all the saints in the NEW Earth -
"from Sabbath to Sabbath shall ALL MANKIND come before Me to worship" Is 66:23 -- the scope for Sabbath even in the OT.
Isaiah 56:6-8 even gentiles were singled out in the OT for Sabbath blessing if they chose not to profane "the Sabbath of the LORD thy God"
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