Because this is a thread in which the subject is Doug and his attacks on the Church we can also summize that it is SDA and their attacks on catholicism. And indeed that has been proven in the posts here.
To those who ‘THINK’ they are Sabbath Keepers: Please read this :
The Sabbath (or Shabbat, as it is called in Hebrew) is one of the best known and least understood of all Jewish observances. People who do not observe Shabbat think of it as a day filled with stifling restrictions, or as a day of prayer like the Christian Sabbath. But to those who observe Shabbat, it is a precious gift from
G-d, a day of great joy eagerly awaited throughout the week, a time when we can set aside all of our weekday concerns and devote ourselves to higher pursuits. In Jewish literature, poetry and music, Shabbat is described as a bride or queen, as in the popular Shabbat hymn Lecha Dodi Likrat Kallah (come, my beloved, to meet the [Sabbath] bride). It is said “more than Israel has kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept Israel.”
Shabbat is the most important ritual observance in Judaism. It is the only ritual observance instituted in the Ten Commandments. It is also the most important special day, even more important than
Yom Kippur. This is clear from the fact that more
aliyot (opportunities for congregants to be called up to the Torah) are given on Shabbat than on any other day.
Shabbat is primarily a day of rest and spiritual enrichment. The word “Shabbat” comes from the
root Shin-Beit-Tav, meaning to cease, to end, or to rest. Shabbat is not specifically a day of
prayer. Although we do pray on Shabbat, and spend a substantial amount of time in synagogue praying, prayer is not what distinguishes Shabbat from the rest of the week. Observant Jews pray every day, three times a day. See
Jewish Liturgy. To say that Shabbat is a day of prayer is no more accurate than to say that Shabbat is a day of feasting: we eat every day, but on Shabbat, we eat more elaborately and in a more leisurely fashion. The same can be said of prayer on Shabbat.
Also, it talks about work on this website. Work as SDA’s would have it is not clocking in to your job and making money or causing anyone else to do so (shopping on Sabbath). In reality, Shabbat is not practiced in that way. There is MUCH more to it. You can’t even turn on a light. So no, you can’t work, but it’s not about not going to a “job”. There is a list of tasks which are defined as work in which something is created. Hence, the ceasing of creating which is observed in the Sabbath. And please, please note what it says about prayer on the Sabbath. I can take this only to mean it is not meant to be a day of worship as the SDA’s have fashioned it. Not to say they don’t attend services, they do.
**And notice the absence of this in the definition: Redeemer. **
Notice here it talks about freedom from wait for it…slavery in Egypt:
What does the Exodus have to do with resting on the seventh day? It’s all about freedom. As I said before, in ancient times, leisure was confined to certain classes; slaves did not get days off. Thus, by resting on Shabbat, we are reminded that we are free. But in a more general sense, Shabbat frees us from our weekday concerns, from our deadlines and schedules and commitments. During the week, we are slaves to our jobs, to our creditors, to our need to provide for ourselves; on Shabbat, we are freed from these concerns, much as our ancestors were freed from slavery in Egypt.
**It says nothing of Christ or freedom from sin. They have other ways of freeing themselves from sin. **
**This all tells us something. The Sabbath was given to Isreal (the Jews) as a gift of rest. Period. That’s it. It is so important to them because it is their rest from slavery and oppression. There STILL was no obsolvence of sin. No forgiveness. No way to God for us. **
Christ is the Way, the Truth, and The Life. Yet where is He in the Sabbath? You cannot write Him into the Sabbath if Moses didn’t. No where in the Bible does it say to worship Christ on the Sabbath. Christ did not tell us to remember him in the Sabbath. The one time he told us to remember him was in the Eucharist and that was done on Sunday.
Christ is our Savior from sin. He is our way to God. Yet if you worship on the Sabbath you are leaving him out. It’s clear by the very definition of the Sabbath from the ones for whom it was given.
You can call the Sabbath what you want and do as you want on Saturday and call it keeping the Sabbath. But the truth is you aren’t.
It simply says if you were a Jew, your whole household must keep the Sabbath day of rest, including your servents and domestic animals.
