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From: bnapl@burdvax.UUCP (Tom Albrecht)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Sabbath, infallible, legalism, and other concepts
Message-ID: <1878@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 17:33:28 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 17:33:28 1985
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Summary: 

In article  strick@gatech.UUCP (henry strickland) writes:
>
>     If you really believe that "God's Law, expressed in the Ten Commandments,
>is JUST AS APPLICABLE to us today" [as it was to Moses and his gang],
>then I don't see where you have any alternative except to observe
>the Sabbath on Saturday.  (Yahweh never said "Pick any day out of the seven",
>and I'm sure Moses would've thrown a fit if someone had suggested Sunday
>or Wednesday night.)

	I believe I stated in my original posting that the law regarding
the Sabbath was a creation ordinance and was not something brand new at
Sinai.  Does the Bible require that the seventh day be observed as the
Sabbath (as Adventists believe) or does it require the setting aside of one
day in seven as a day devoted to the Lord (proportion or order)?  Many
covenant theologians believe that proportion is the key to resolving the
issue.  If there were nothing in the New Testament regarding the worship
practices of the apostles and their disciples, we would be constrained to
continue to observe the seventh day as the Sabbath.  However, there are 
numerous passages in the New Testament to indicate to us that the Sabbath 
observance changed from the last to the first day of the week in
rememberance of Christ's resurrection from the dead.

	The Sabbath law was never abrogated by Christ and we are still 
obliged to keep this creation commandment (see Gen. 2:2,3). This was 
not something simply given to the nation of Israel, but to Adam, the 
federal head of the human race, and so we are all obligated to keep it.  

>     This is where I have a hard time with Christians who don't say what
>they mean.   They use words like "inerrant" and "infallible", ...

	I said exactly what I meant and I never used the words "inerrant"
or "infallible" although those words were certainly implied in my comments.

>     I get annoyed with these people mostly because they make others
>believe that Christianity is not logically consistant.  

	If you intended to show how I said something that was logically
inconsistent then I believe you failed to make your point.  Keep up the
good work. -:)

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Tom Albrecht 		Burroughs Corp.
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