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1. Obviously Moody agreed that the Bible Sabbath of the seventh day - began for mankind in Eden as do the Confession of Faith quoted here - so "yes" BOTH sides agree on that point you just skimmed past. Were we simply "not supposed to notice"??
2. Moody also agrees that ALL TEN are written on the heart and STILL apply today - so "yes" BOTH sides agree on that point you just skimmed past.
3. As for "Moody himself" -- he stated he keeps Saturday as the Sabbath as I already showed you.
So while skimming past all the easy parts - you are getting to "circle back" and challenge them while also redirecting to other details where in fact "all do not agree".
However even your own Venn diagram post shoots your own method in the foot - because the intersecting part "still exists" even when other areas do not intersect. You are diagramatically showing the common ground element is absolutely factually true - even while giving your "overstated" comment as if it did not exist!!..
How in the world are we suppose to have "Missed that"??
You're going have to quote where Moody said Adam and Eve kept the sabbath per the 4th commandment in Exodus 20:11. Genesis 2:1-3 says that God rested. It doesn't say that anyone else rested that day, or that God told anyone to rest on the seventh day, until Exodus 20:11. Far reaching extrapolation isn't sound theology.
ok - but for the record you keep asking me to post previous responses - which is a pretty good indication that you are simply not reading them.
He liked the view that the 4th commandment is binding on all Christians and in fact all mankind - but "edited" to point to week-day-1
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THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
BY THE
DWIGHT L. MOODY
The Ten Commandments:
Exodus 20:2-17
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The Fourth Commandment
Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 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: for 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.
THERE HAS BEEN an awful letting-down in this country regarding the Sabbath during the last twenty-five years, and many a man has been shorn of spiritual power, like Samson, because he is not straight on this question. Can you say that you observe the Sabbath properly? You may be a professed Christian: are you obeying this commandment? Or do you neglect the house of God on the Sabbath day, and spend your time drinking and carousing in places of vice and crime, showing contempt for God and His law? Are you ready to step into the scales? Where were you last Sabbath? How did you spend it?
I honestly believe that this commandment is just as binding today as it ever was. I have talked with men who have said that it has been abrogated, but they have never been able to point to any place in the Bible where God repealed it. When Christ was on earth, He did nothing to set it aside; He freed it from the traces under which the scribes and Pharisees had put it, and gave it its true place.
"The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." (Mark 2:27)
It is just as practicable and as necessary for men today as it ever was- in fact, more than ever, because we live in such an intense age.
The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. The fourth commandment begins with the word remember, showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote this law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding?
I believe that the Sabbath question today is a vital one for the whole country. It is the burning question of the present time. If you give up the Sabbath the church goes; if you give up the church the home goes; and if the home goes the nation goes. That is the direction in which we are traveling.
The church of God is losing its power on account of so many people giving up the Sabbath, and using it to promote selfishness.
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HOW TO OBSERVE THE SABBATH
"Sabbath" means "rest," and the meaning of the word gives a hint as to the true way to observe the day. God rested after creation, and ordained the Sabbath as a rest for man. He blessed it and hallowed it. Remember the rest-day to keep it holy.
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Mr. Gladstone recently told a friend that the secret of his long life is that amid all the pressure of public cares he never forgot the Sabbath, with its rest for the body and the soul.
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When I was a boy, the Sabbath lasted from sundown on Saturday to sundown on Sunday,
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Someone has said that without the Sabbath, the Church of Christ could not, as a visible organization, exist on earth.
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Parents, if you want your children to grow up and honor you, have them honor the Sabbath day.
On the other hand, honoring the fourth commandment brings blessing:
"If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on My holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it." (Isaiah 58:13-14)
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1. CESSATION FROM SECULAR WORK
A man ought to turn aside from his ordinary employment one day in seven. There are many whose occupation will not permit them to observe Sunday, but they should observe some other day as a Sabbath. Saturday is my day of rest, because I generally preach on Sunday, and I look forward to it as a boy does to a holiday. God knows what we need...
Sabbath-breaker, are you ready to step into the scales?
" the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God:
"for 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
"The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. The fourth commandment begins with the word remember, showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote this law on the tables of stone at Sinai
"Saturday is my day of rest"
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