Irrefutible evidence for all TEN Commandments remaining

Yes, all ten commandments remain. Not one has been changed or eliminated. The transition from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant did not abolish the ten commandments. Instead, it explains how to live in harmony with them.

I believe that the Sabbath question today is a vital one for the whole country. It is the burning question of the present time. If you give up the Sabbath the church goes;

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Thoughts?

So...Just what is the statement under discussion?

I'm waiting for the irrefutable evidence.

demonstrating all 7 points of my "7 point list"

Did I say something different about the covenant's?

M: Did I say something different about the covenant's?

J: Um...No, you said nothing at all about the covenants. You could not explain the difference...

So is this list your belief, or Moody's? This was not clear.

Bobryan, it is interesting to learn their reasons for believing the moral law is still binding.

You didn't agree with my explanation. I posted a Bible study by Joe Crews. It also explained it very nicely.

M: You didn't agree with my explanation. I posted a Bible study by Joe Crews. It also explained it very nicely.

J: True, I didn't (with certain caveats). But, the problem is, I didn't ask Joe Crews for his explanation, I asked you for yours.

Dwight Moody was a Sunday keeper. During the Puritan era, Sunday was called the Sabbath and given all the support the Bible gives to the 7th day.
Moody's sermons on the commandments are good. I don't know what his exposure to the Sabbath truth was or how he responded to that.

When the Seventh-day Adventist church became a voice in the Christian world, the challenge as to God's true Sabbath became very pronounced. While this was already evident in earlier years (there were Seventh-day Baptists) yet Adventist were unique in seeing the Sabbath message (God's Sabbath) in the three angels' message which gave it an importance not seen before.

Rather than accepting God's true Sabbath the churches have resorted to doing away with God's law -- yet they don't really believe this themselves,(as we see in their desire to post those commandments in public places, and have "commandment day" etc. ) but since those commandments include Saturday as the Sabbath, they will have the whole nailed to the cross, as their excuse to transgress the fourth.

The time is coming, however, and is now already being pushed, when the Sabbath commandment will be invoked to enforce Sunday as "vital for the whole country".
If you have read Pope John Paul II's Sunday encyclical you will know he has dressed up Sunday in all the Biblical Sabbath clothes.

I said "also".

1. That the Sabbath Commandment is first given to mankind in Gen 2:1-3
2. That all mankind was obligated by the TEN commandments in the OT and to this very day.
3. That the seventh day as the Sabbath was Saturday the seventh day of the week from Gen 2:1-3 until NT times - including at the cross.
4. That the Ten Commandments are the moral Law of God
5. That the moral law of God is written on the heart under the New Covenant
6. that the Ten Commandments as the moral law of God are in no way opposed to grace and the Gospel.
7. That the Sabbath commandment can rightly be BENT by man-made-tradition to point to week-day-1 after the cross.

I am interested.

Post it all here with links to the source, as the link to the source adds to the validity of the quotes, etc.

- D.L. Moody notices that some are opposed to the Sabbath Commandment - but notice how this sermon on the TEN Commandments also fits the summary of 7 points listed here



http://www.fbinstitute.com/moody/The_TenCommandments_Text.html

Fundamental Baptist Institute
http://www.fbinstitute.com/
http://www.fbinstitute.com/moody/The_TenCommandments_Text.html
presents

THE TEN COMMANDMENTS


BY THE
DWIGHT L. MOODY
The Ten Commandments:
Exodus 20:2-17
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The Fourth Commandment
Remember the Sabbath Day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and Earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath Day, and hallowed it.

THERE HAS BEEN an awful letting-down in this country regarding the Sabbath during the last twenty-five years, and many a man has been shorn of spiritual power, like Samson, because he is not straight on this question. Can you say that you observe the Sabbath properly? You may be a professed Christian: are you obeying this commandment? Or do you neglect the house of God on the Sabbath day, and spend your time drinking and carousing in places of vice and crime, showing contempt for God and His law? Are you ready to step into the scales? Where were you last Sabbath? How did you spend it?

I honestly believe that this commandment is just as binding today as it ever was. I have talked with men who have said that it has been abrogated, but they have never been able to point to any place in the Bible where God repealed it. When Christ was on earth, He did nothing to set it aside; He freed it from the traces under which the scribes and Pharisees had put it, and gave it its true place.
"The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath." (Mark 2:27)
It is just as practicable and as necessary for men today as it ever was- in fact, more than ever, because we live in such an intense age.

The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. The fourth commandment begins with the word remember, showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote this law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one commandment has been done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding?

I believe that the Sabbath question today is a vital one for the whole country. It is the burning question of the present time. If you give up the Sabbath the church goes;

"10 Reasons why the Sabbath is not just for Jews.

1) Adam and Eve were not Jewish. "God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it" (Genesis 2:3) before sin entered. "Sanctified" means "to be set apart for holy use." The only ones in the Garden of Eden for whom the Sabbath was “set apart” were Adam and Eve, who weren’t Jewish.

2) "The Sabbath was made for mankind not mankind made for the Sabbath." Mark 2:27. Jesus said this. It was "made" in the Garden of Eden before it was "written" down on Mount Sinai. The Sabbath was "made" for "man," not just Jews.

3) The other nine commandments are not "just for Jews." God wrote "Ten Commandments" on stone, not just nine (See Deut. 4:12, 13; Ex. 20). Does “Do not commit adultery,”“Do not murder,”“Do not steal,” and “Do not bear false witness” apply "only to Jews"? Eph 6:2 the 5th commandment is the “First Commandment with a promise” – only true of the unit of TEN. And this is applied to gentiles.

4) "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." Exodus 20:10. God calls the Sabbath, "my holy day." Isaiah 58:13. The Bible never calls it "the Sabbath of the Jews." It isn’t their Sabbath, but God's.

5) The Sabbath commandment is for the "stranger" too. The fourth commandment itself says the "stranger" is to rest on the Sabbath. Exodus 20:10.“Strangers” are non-Jews, or Gentiles. Thus the Sabbath applies to them too.

6) Isaiah 56 said Gentiles should keep the Sabbath. "Also the sons of the stranger ... every one that keeps the Sabbath ... for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people." Isaiah 56:6, 7. Thus the Sabbath is for Gentiles and “all people,” not just for Jews.

Is 56
2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
5 Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.



7) "All" mankind will keep the Sabbath in the New Earth. In "the new earth ... from one Sabbath to another, shall all mankind come to worship before me, says the Lord." Isaiah 66:22, 23. Here God says that “all flesh” will be keeping the Sabbath in “the new earth.” If this is the case – and it is – shouldn’t we start now?

8) Gentiles kept the Sabbath in the Book of Acts. "The Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next Sabbath ... Paul and Barnabas ... persuaded them to continue in the grace of God."' Acts 13:42, 43. Here saved-by-grace Gentiles kept the Sabbath (see also verse 44). See also Acts 17 and Acts 18... of them with Sabbath after Sabbath worship services and Gospel teaching in the synagogues.

9) "The law" [of Ten Commandments] is for "all the world," not just for Jews. Paul wrote these words. Read Romans 2:17-23; 3:19, 23.

10) Luke was a Gentile who kept the Sabbath. Luke was the only Gentile who wrote any New Testament books (he wrote The Gospel According to St. Luke and The Acts of the Apostles). Luke traveled with Paul and wrote, "On the Sabbath we went out of the city by a river side." Acts 16:13. It was the seventh-day Sabbath, the memorial of the creation (see Ex. 20:11). Both Luke and Paul knew it...

11) New Covenant “With the house of Israel” – and so for ALL the saints. Just as command not to worship false gods in Ex 20 – given to Israel freed slaves from Egypt – and also for all mankind.

Jer 31:
31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Heb 8
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

Ex 20
And God spake all these words, saying,
2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

Point #8 concerning Acts 13:42-43 is very clear in the KJV, but the new translations have hidden it. Yet, the Greek supports the KJV.

Very good points -- worth memorizing.

Point #8 concerning Acts 13:42-43 is very clear in the KJV, but the new translations have hidden it. Yet, the Greek supports the KJV.



Also there is Revelation 14--
The message of the first angel, while not actually mentioning the word "Sabbath" has strong connections to the fourth commandment, and this is reinforced by the description of the "saints".

Rev. 14:7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Exodus 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Yet, the Greek supports the KJV.

You'll have to be more specific regarding how "the new translations have hidden it."
Hidden what, exactly? Any "new translation" I referenced included mention of the Sabbath, with the exception of the Living Bible, which is not really a translation but a paraphrase.

Point Number Two: You seem to readily appeal to the original Greek to support your position here, yet completely ignore the fact that the Hebrew does not support a "therefore" in our other discussion, and insist on sticking with your unsupported interpretation of Isaiah 2.

If you want to stick strictly with the Greek the phrase may be rendered either "next Sabbath" or "between the Sabbaths" meaning a week day.

Check Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible or the SDA Bible Commentary, as well as others.

The context in v. 44 makes it clear, however, that "the next Sabbath" is the preferred reading.

Point one:
Yes, the word Sabbath is mentioned, but the clear reference to Gentiles is missing in modern translations. They imply it was simply the people from the congregation that wanted Paul to come back the next Sabbath.
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2. How about the Gentiles?
"ethnos" is the word used, which is
translated Gentiles 93, nation 64, heathen 5, people 2
The scriptures uses the word to describe foreign nations not worshipping the true God, pagans, Gentiles.

Again the KJV is corrected in saying THE GENTILES

How does it affect your faith whether it was Gentiles or Jews who wanted to meet the next Sabbath? Why does it matter to you that it had to be specific and specifically mentioned that it was Gentiles

When presenting the Sabbath to other Christians, how this text is read does make a BIG DIFFERENCE.

Another text in the New Testament that deals with the Sabbath is found in Hebrews

4:9 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.

And the "other" Christian reads the NIV and sees your use of the KJV as strange and your insistence on it will be suspect by them. But you can still use Acts 13 in THEIR version. Acts 13:44 NIV84 On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. Acts 13:44 LEB And on the coming Sabbath, nearly the whole city came together to hear the word of the Lord. Acts 13:44 GNB The next Sabbath nearly everyone in the town came to hear the word of the Lord. The whole town was not Jewish.

You're starting to sound like Green. Do you take the correct word based on numerical vote?

To say, "they" or "the people", how is that incorrect? Gentiles are people too, you know.

Who was Paul speaking to, who was included?

How does it affect your faith whether it was Gentiles or Jews who wanted to meet the next Sabbath? Why does it matter to you that it had to be specific and specifically mentioned that it was Gentiles who were in the Temple? And I'm not sure by Gentiles listening to Paul mean they were "keeping the Sabbath". If visitors attend an SDA church, does that mean they are SDAs or "keeping the Sabbath"? What if they should dare come to a Wednesday night prayer meeting?! (metaxu - intervening, between)

Complaining about version differences (if there even is), is nothing but a diversion and distraction from preaching the Gospel.

The most obvious and natural reading is not that the Jews went out and got the whole city interested in hearing Paul - and then became jealous that they were so good at getting the whole city to come out.

Rather it is that the gentiles got their many other gentile non-convert, non-Christian, non-jewish-anything friends to show up.

I have this discussion with non-SDAs at least once every week or every two weeks - they never argue that no gentiles were in the synagogue that first Sabbath Paul preached. OR that it is not the gentiles that are responding positively while most of the Jews are in rejection.

What do you have against the KJV?

Irrefutable evidence of 7 statements that start getting fleshed out in the first two posts --

These statements are an example of claims made by the majority of pro-Sunday sources - and 6 of the 7 are actually correct according to the Bible!.


Yes that is right - 6 of the 7 are actually common ground between Sabbath keeping and Sunday keeping Christians.


1. That the Sabbath Commandment is first given to mankind in Gen 2:1-3
2. That all mankind was obligated by the TEN commandments in the OT and to this very day.
3. That the seventh day as the Sabbath was Saturday the seventh day of the week from Gen 2:1-3 until NT times - including at the cross.
4. That the Ten Commandments are the moral Law of God
5. That the moral law of God is written on the heart under the New Covenant
6. that the Ten Commandments as the moral law of God are in no way opposed to grace and the Gospel.
7. That the Sabbath commandment can rightly be BENT by man-made-tradition to point to week-day-1 after the cross.

I agree with 6 out of 7 as listed above - and yet many who post against God's TEN commandments object to all of the points listed above. And sometimes they will even go on to complain that so many of the points above are in agreement with my position and opposed to the war-against-the-Ten-Commandments position.

So...Just what is the statement under discussion?

...but the clear reference to Gentiles is missing in modern translations.

Even though the earlier verses dealing with the previous Sabbath were very specific that it was in the synagogue, here we see NO MENTION of any synagogue.

my sources are from all over the place.

So...Just what is the statement under discussion?

There are very few teachings held exclusively by Seventh-day Adventists. For example their view that the Ten Commandments are still binding on the saints was held in common with Dwight L. Moody[1], the Baptist Confession of Faith (sections 19 and 22), the Westminster Confession of Faith (sections 19 and 21), and the Catholic Catechism[2]. The denomination also has a number of distinctive doctrines which differentiate it from other Christian churches. Some of their views which differ from most Christian churches include: keeping the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_theology

Thus, yes, that is part of the topic to define the texts that deal with the Sabbath in the NT.

This issue in speaking to other Christians isn't concerning the fact that the Jews kept the 7th day Sabbath (Saturday).
They don't question the fact that the Jews met in their synagogues on Saturdays.
Their argument is that yes, Saturday was the Jewish Sabbath, but that Paul met with the Gentiles on Sunday. (and they quote Acts 20:6, 1 Cor. 16:20, Romans 14:5, Col. 2:16, and other verses) They say, he did not require the Gentiles to keep Saturday, and that Sunday was preferred, and that the day didn't really matter.

When presenting the Sabbath to other Christians, how this text is read does make a BIG DIFFERENCE.

I am talking from experience, for the changed words place this text into the same basket which Sunday Christians use to dismiss all the Sabbath texts in ACTS.

What do you have against the KJV?
In that particular passage in Acts 13, it is the most accurate.
I find it has higher rate of accuracy than many of the others, though sometimes the others are more accurate.

Kland wrote: But you are arguing with people who have already made up their mind regardless of scripture. Just like some people insist that Peter seeing the sheet of unclean animals is talking about food.

Yes, it is interesting when studying the teachings of early protestants that indeed they did teach these points.
Six of which we can find common ground with.

Yet, when presenting the Sabbath to Sunday observers, so often they deny these six points.

It would probably be good to be fluent in some of these teachings FROM PROTESTANTS themselves when talking to Sunday observers,

for these things do not merely "come from EGW" as so many are quick to say, they are basic principles of Christianity.

Of course #7 is a problem --
Matt. 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Point #1 I find is often refuted now, many will say the seventh-day was not really a "day" since the "evening and morning" phrase isn't repeated, (even though the word "day" is mentioned three times), and that God didn't "command" anything, it was God that rested from creating.

But Jesus says --"The Sabbath was made for man" Mark 2:28
And the text in Genesis specifically tells us God, blessed and sanctified the day. This is referred back to in the 4th commandment as cited in Exodus 20.

The theistic evolution theory has considerable to do with this point being denied as well.

Point #2 Indeed they believe there is an obligation to God's law, for why would they have "commandment days" and lobby to have the commandments posted in schools, and other public places? Yet, when it comes to the Sabbath issue, we are often told those commandments were nailed to the cross, no longer binding.

But it wasn't the law that was nailed to the cross -- it was our sins that were nailed there as Jesus bore them to cross.

Col 2:13-14 ESV
13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, by nailing it to the cross.

That may be true on forums where it seems everyone comes with their "minds made up", but in real life it's a different situation.

And no it's not just a "favorite version" it's looking at the actual words in the original.
If you notice -- I posted several different versions that had the correct translation.

Yes, the Gentiles that heard Paul the first Sabbath asked for Him to preach it again, because they recognized truth, yet the response of Paul does show something important.

If the Gentile proselytes wanted to invite their Gentile friends and neighbors to hear Paul preach the same message, this would have been an excellent point in time for Paul to say -- Sunday is the new day for special worship, especially for Gentile believers, we can all meet tomorrow and celebrate Christ's resurrection "Lord's day" and I'll tell you more about Jesus.

But no -- we see it happened on the NEXT Sabbath that almost all the Gentiles in the city came to hear Paul.

POPE FRANCIS SAYS THAT SUNDAY NEEDS TO BE RECOVERED - IN KEEPING WITH JOHN PAUL II 'DIES DOMINI' (April 2014)
"The Catholic Church has been recovering this teaching at least since 1998, when Pope John Paul II published his apostolic letter Dies Domini ... Last October, about 250 bishops met in Rome for a conference on the movement called the New Evangelization, which focuses on reawakening faith in those already baptized. One of their conclusions was, Even though there is a tension between the Christian Sunday and the secular Sunday, Sunday needs to be recovered - in keeping, they wrote, with John Paul's Dies Domini

Why do you think it's invalid?

The Greek makes a clear distinction between the two groups of people.

It's the Gentiles (not the Jews) that begged Paul to preach to them the next Sabbath.

Why do you seek to deny that point?

Aren't you interested in seeing the many evidences that Sabbath is also for the Gentiles not just for the Jews?

After all that's what this topic is about --
It's not about demanding that just because the KJV translation is correct in this verse therefore we must not refer to that argument for it must be invalid????? That doesn't make sense.

Here are other translations that have Acts 13:42 correct.

Irrefutable evidence of 7 statements that start getting fleshed out in the first two posts --

These statements are an example of claims made by the majority of pro-Sunday sources - and 6 of the 7 are actually correct according to the Bible!.


Yes that is right - 6 of the 7 are actually common ground between Sabbath keeping and Sunday keeping Christians.


1. That the Sabbath Commandment is first given to mankind in Gen 2:1-3
2. That all mankind was obligated by the TEN commandments in the OT and to this very day.
3. That the seventh day as the Sabbath was Saturday the seventh day of the week from Gen 2:1-3 until NT times - including at the cross.
4. That the Ten Commandments are the moral Law of God
5. That the moral law of God is written on the heart under the New Covenant
6. that the Ten Commandments as the moral law of God are in no way opposed to grace and the Gospel.
7. That the Sabbath commandment can rightly be BENT by man-made-tradition to point to week-day-1 after the cross.

I agree with 6 out of 7 as listed above - and yet many who post against God's TEN commandments object to all of the points listed above. And sometimes they will even go on to complain that so many of the points above are in agreement with my position and opposed to the war-against-the-Ten-Commandments position.

Kland, Why are you insisting on taking this thread off topic?

Irrefutable evidence of 7 statements that start getting fleshed out in the first two posts --

These statements are an example of claims made by the majority of pro-Sunday sources - and 6 of the 7 are actually correct according to the Bible!.


Yes that is right - 6 of the 7 are actually common ground between Sabbath keeping and Sunday keeping Christians.


1. That the Sabbath Commandment is first given to mankind in Gen 2:1-3
2. That all mankind was obligated by the TEN commandments in the OT and to this very day.
3. That the seventh day as the Sabbath was Saturday the seventh day of the week from Gen 2:1-3 until NT times - including at the cross.
4. That the Ten Commandments are the moral Law of God
5. That the moral law of God is written on the heart under the New Covenant
6. that the Ten Commandments as the moral law of God are in no way opposed to grace and the Gospel.
7. That the Sabbath commandment can rightly be BENT by man-made-tradition to point to week-day-1 after the cross.

I agree with 6 out of 7 as listed above - and yet many who post against God's TEN commandments object to all of the points listed above. And sometimes they will even go on to complain that so many of the points above are in agreement with my position and opposed to the war-against-the-Ten-Commandments position.

point #1

1. That the Sabbath Commandment is first given to mankind in Gen 2:1-3


Anti-Sabbath arguments insist that a Sabbath command is no where to be found in the book of Genesis. That in Gen 2, God was simply ending His work of creation and blessing it, not establishing any weekly 7th day Sabbath. And that the weekly Sabbath wasn't in existence until it was given to the Israelites during the Exodus.

Yet the truth about the Sabbath’s existence in Genesis has been acknowledged by both Adventists and non-Adventists alike.


FIRST-- we have a seven day week.
The 7‑day week is older than the Israelites, as it was observed by the Sumerians and Babylonians.
While attempts have been made to institute other lengths of a "week", they have all failed and mankind reverts back to the seven day weekly cycle.
God created the week; a seven day weekly cycle.



SECONDLY: The fourth commandment points back to creation account.

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.


Is the Sabbath in Genesis? The fourth commandment answered the question. In Genesis God blessed the seventh day and sanctified (set it apart for holy purposes):

Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Compare that with the fourth commandment

Exodus 20:10-11
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God. (11) For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.


The question, “Is the Sabbath in Genesis?” is fully answered in the fourth commandment itself.

Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Now when we return to the commandment, verse 10 reads:


The fourth commandment says God blessed the seventh day, and then says that the seventh day “is the sabbath” day. The words “is the” makes it ever clear that the seventh day of Genesis 2:3 is the same seventh day of the fourth commandment, which God himself says that that is the “sabbath” day.


Exodus 20:11
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.


The fourth commandment says God blessed the seventh day, and then says that the seventh day “is the sabbath” day. The words “is the” makes it ever clear that the seventh day of Genesis 2:3 is the same seventh day of the fourth commandment, which God himself says that that is the “sabbath” day.

THIRD:
Jesus says, “The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.” –Mark 2:27.

The Sabbath was made for human beings.

The "irrefutable" point is as follows

1. The majority of eve pro-sunday scholarship argue that the Ten Commandments are the moral law of God - written on the heart under the New Covenant and applicable to all saints to this very day. So this point is not unique to 7th day Sabbath keeping Christians.

2. The Law of God is written on the heart under the New Covenant of Jer 31:31-33 and so the term "Law of God" must be understood in context of the author and his contemporary readers.

3. The quote of Jer 31:31-33 by Paul in Heb 8 affirms the same point and is affirmed by the majority of even pro-sunday scholarship.

4. D.L. Moody's statement, C.H. Spurgeon's statement and the "Westminster Confession of Faith" statement are good representative statements for the way this pro-Ten-Commandments POV was being presented in the 1800's at the time that Adventists fully accepted the 4th commandment unedited.

5. There are a number of texts both OT and NT that help explain why it is that even pro-Sunday scholarship admits to the Ten Commandments as the moral law of God - binding on all mankind (even saints) from Eden to this very day.

2. The Law of God is written on the heart under the New Covenant of Jer 31:31-33 and so the term "Law of God" must be understood in context of the author and his contemporary readers.