Sunday Law

[Sophia7]

doctors and nurses, housekeeping staff to keep the hospital clean, support clerical staff because records have to be maintained.... my point is how can we recommend people quitting their jobs when some of our own institutions have employees who have to work?

I think that hospitals should minimize the amount of staff on Sabbath so that only the most essential duties are performed.

I wouldn't make an absolute statement that people should quit their jobs if they have to work on Sabbath. It depends on what kind of job they have. Most businesses, though, could operate just fine without requiring their employees to work on Sabbath.

I have known many people who came to church for a while but then left when they got jobs that required them to work on Sabbath. Their reasoning was never that because Adventist institutions sometimes require people to work on Sabbath, they are being hypocritical; therefore, it is all right to work on Sabbath. Their main concern was that they thought they couldn't find any other job, so they had to take what they could get, regardless of the Sabbath issue.

The most important thing to me is not what SDA businesses or institutions do (although if something is wrong, it should be fixed) or even what other people do but what God wants me to do.

 

[StormyOne]

I think that hospitals should minimize the amount of staff on Sabbath so that only the most essential duties are performed.

I wouldn't make an absolute statement that people should quit their jobs if they have to work on Sabbath. It depends on what kind of job they have. Most businesses, though, could operate just fine without requiring their employees to work on Sabbath.

I have known many people who came to church for a while but then left when they got jobs that required them to work on Sabbath. Their reasoning was never that because Adventist institutions sometimes require people to work on Sabbath, they are being hypocritical; therefore, it is all right to work on Sabbath. Their main concern was that they thought they couldn't find any other job, so they had to take what they could get, regardless of the Sabbath issue.

The most important thing to me is not what SDA businesses or institutions do (although if something is wrong, it should be fixed) or even what other people do but what God wants me to do.

I agree that it is what God tells us that is most important... which is why a person should not be told that they must quit their job (if it requires work on sabbath) when they join the church..... it needs to be left up to the moving of the Holy Spirit...

 

[catlover]

What IS the Sunday law?

 

[Sunrunner]

The National Sunday Law is a Seventh-day Adventist belief that before Jesus returns in the Second Coming, great persecution will fall on the Remnant Church. Part of this persecution, we believe, will come in the form of a law that at first justs requires everyone to attend church on Sunday. Then the law will evolve and forbid church on Saturday as well (that is when full persecution will come).

To the average person it really sounds like a silly belief, but it is very possible.

"And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." Revelation 13:7

 

[ttreg]

http://www.amazingfacts.org/items/Read_Media.asp?ID=671&x=29&y=39 I dont have to time to read it all but i think that study covers it. Stick around to hear sophia cliff tall woob or threeAM cover it. Sadly Im not a walking Bible like these people.

 

[catlover]

Thank-you for answering my post Ttreg and Sun. I would have to think about that.

 

[Sunrunner]

Let me note that a national observance of Sunday holiness has been attempted all throughout American history. First by the Puritans and then by the Protestants. Even today the push remains.

 

[Sophia7]

I agree that it is what God tells us that is most important... which is why a person should not be told that they must quit their job (if it requires work on sabbath) when they join the church..... it needs to be left up to the moving of the Holy Spirit...

I agree with that. If a person isn't convicted by the Holy Spirit, then it really wouldn't do any good to tell them to quit their job anyway. It would only be legalism if they did it just so that they could join the church.