Normann said:
I live by the Bible and not a calendar.
Cliff, you have never answered my questions.
Come one brother, do you do everything they did in the New Testament?
-Or do you just do what the SDA tells you to do.
Is the Sabbath the only thing the SDA preaches?
Norm-
Normann
Norman:
Your conclusions are based on faulty reasoning.
1. The point in question is: Which day of the week is the Sabbath? Not whether SDAs do everyting in the NT. Discuss one topic at a time, to avoid confusion.
2. SDAs do not blindly do what the SDA church teaches. SDAs are taught to check everything that the church teaches, and the preachers teach, with the Bible, like all Protestants should. You are not a true Protestant because you accept as biblical, Sunday worship which has no Biblical authority only the traditons of men to back it up. We have 28 fundamental beliefs, with the Sabbath and the Law of God doctrine being one of them.
3. The 7th day Sabbath did not shift in its sequence during the time of Jewish nation. Jesus himself spoke with Moses face to face, and the children of Israel were feed with manna for forty years (2,080 Sabbaths) with a double measure falling on Friday the preparation day, and none on the 7th day. How could they loose track of the order of days considering the above facts? Even a Jew who was mentally retarded could have known which day the Sabbath was!
4. When Jesus came to this earth as a man in the first century, if there were any discrepencies regarding the Sabbath, Jesus would have made the correction. But, there was not, that is why you see Jesus keeping the Sabbath in his childhood, youth, and adult life, and even in the grave He rested on the Sabbath!
5. The two most literal translations (ESV and NASB), give a clearer meaning to Hebrews 4:9; "So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God." Note, that is uses the capital "S" in the word Sabbath, meaning that the 7th day Sabbath is still the divine day of rest for God's true people in the NT and beyond, and forever in heaven, as Isaiah 66:23 states.