Shalom Alecheim
Good post Visionary, the Seventh Day Adventist have a wealth of material on Sabbath Keeping and while not all Christian Scholars agreed with J.N. Edwards his work is thought provoking.
Another :18.
PASAGINIANS http://www.all-of-grace.net/references/bucks_dictionary/bd_p.htm#A018
A denomination which arose in the twelfth century, known also by the name of the Circumcised. their distinguishing tenets were these, 1. That the observation of the law of Moses in every thing except the offering of sacrifices was obligatory upon Christians. In consequence of which, they circumcised their followers, abstained from those meats the use of which was prohibited under the Mosaic aeconomy, and celebrated the Jewish sabbath.--2. That Christ was no more than the first and purest creature of God. This denomination had the utmost aversion to the doctrine and discipline of the church of Rome.
All of us learn to "FILTER" with help of the Holy Spirit of G-d ruach ha kodesh and apply (hopefully) kavanaugh ha shem and grace with mercy those words and thoughts many scholars through the centuries both Jewish and Christian who have as we do, known in part and seek to know in fulness Messiah.
As a Choice I love Shabbes, as a theological discussion I see error in many writings equally when passion and zeal with advocacy of a posit overrule our relationship with G-d.
In other words, as Y'shua your master lead you, that is the WAY halacha you should go. If it be as one brother said to me once to leave his faith and join a yeshiva to learn, I said Go with G-d and if it be G-d led him to learn and later choose to follow Messiah in a more knowing way, then the lesson and learning was his to apply as G-d himself led him and taught Him.
Example: a person who is fully assimilated and knows nothing of thier heritage might choose Catholicism because of the ethnic and historical as well as persuassive (some) theological posit , I know the bother of the Cardinal of France who is a concentration camp survivor and He chose to remain a Catholic and movend up in that denomination and choosing to apply his Yiddishkite soul so to speak to Catholic expression.
His brother meanwhile found favor in Reform Judaism in Israel and at discussion with Him about the Messianic Jews who He met and enjoyed, He said He could understand them more than he could his brother.
Each were and are seeking to do the "Will of the L-rd as they understand and learn and so too many choose a very Observant lifestyle in comprehending Torah and Who He is.
As one who has and enjoys in season Shabbes Observance in a predominant Orthodox way and also applied and had applied to me a liberality of expression amoung other brethren I have found the L-rd of Shabbes is my L-rd and my G-d and as each of us determines the direction he is led, it is G-d who will lead our study at times to be fully persuaded in each situation the fact of our position.
This man: John Nevins Andrews (1829 - 1883), also known as Elder J. N. Andrews, was a Seventh-day Adventist scholar and missionary. Andrews made Adventist church history, when, in 1874 he became the first Adventist missionary overseas.
J. N. Andrews was born in Poland, Maine in 1829. His family accepted the teachings of preacher William Miller in the 1840s and later accepted the Sabbath message. Andrews became a minister in 1850 and was consequently ordained in 1853. Andrews helped the Adventist movement identify the two-horned beast of Revelation as the United States of America.[1] In 1856, Andrews married Angeline Stevens to whom he had four children. Angeline died in 1872. Andrews became the third president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in 1867 and held that post until becoming the editor of the Adventist Review in 1869.
In 1874 Andrews traveled to Switzerland to become the growing denomination's first overseas missionary.
Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan was named after him in 1960.
That man was fully persuaded and while I as a Older Beleiver do not agree with many of his conclusions, I repsect and honor is faithfulness to his position and fully expect to see Him in the Kingdom though I would debate and contra stand on Discussion of his advocacy.
For me and those who study as I do, we do not hold the necessity to agree on Theology of Religious Expression though we love to discuss debate and learn from many sources, we hold to Messiah who seems to indicate to us that if it lead the individual to Know Him then G-d was more than able to take what we may not comrehend and make it accpetable to another who may have needed that "dogma" to get to Knowing G-d.
Not Emergent, not unitarian and not inclusivity but acknowledging G-d is L-rd of all.
Alecheim Shalom
Good post Visionary.