Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: horton@b11.ingr.com (Mac Horton) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Sabbath, Sunday, Saturday, Lord's Day? (was Re: Law and Love) Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 89 01:45:14 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Intergraph, Deep in the Heart of Dixie Lines: 51 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I know I said I wasn't going to post anymore, but...one little drink won't hurt; I can quit anytime I want to. I think this continuing business about a Sunday vs. Saturday Sabbath is elucidated by knowledge of what Seventh Day Adventists believe. Charles Hedrick says, in reply to something from Daniel Crowe: >Surely the belief that we should keep the Sabbath does not imply that >worship on any other day of the week is a pagan act. I could >understand it if you accused me simply of failing to keep the Sabbath. >I cannot understand your insistence that I am worshipping on a pagan >day. How can there be such a thing? Even if you think we are wrong >and perhaps even sinful in failing to keep the Sabbath, do you not >recognize our worship as Christian worship?.... I don't remember whether Daniel has stated that he is a Seventh Day Adventist or not, but certainly some of the proponents of a Saturday Sabbath are. And to see this from the Adventist point of view sheds some light on why they attach such importance to a question which other Protestants consider peripheral. Adventists believe that the change from Saturday to Sunday was the work of the Roman Catholic Church, and that the RCC (or, more specifically, the papacy) is the anti-Christ (more specifically, the "little horn" of the beast in Revelations). The change is considered to be a fulfillment of a prophecy in the book of Daniel. If you start from those assumptions, then acceptance of the change on the part of other Protestants constitutes collusion with the enemy--not deliberate, of course, but at least a very serious failure to comply with God's law-- and a serious, if not fatal, defect in the purification of the Church by the various forces of the Protestant Reformation, a sort of poisoning of the whole effort by the leftover taint of Catholicism. -- Mac Horton @ Intergraph | horton@ingr.COM | ..uunet!ingr!horton -- They arrested me for forgery, and I can't sign my name. --Furry Lewis [Note that my reply was directed, not at those who simply say that we should worship on Saturday, but to someone who said that worshipping on Sunday was pagan. I have no quarrel with groups that believe the Law commits them to worship on Saturday. Paul advises us to respect people who continue to obey restrictions, even though we know that we are free of them. I would not even object to attempts to persuade us that we should still obey the Law, though I certainly would not accept such arguments. My real objection is with people who attempt to discredit the practice of other groups by dredging up pagan asociations for practices that certainly have no pagan content now and probably never did. --clh]