The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum The Sabbath

I don't believe we can limit the teaching of the Sabbath to one section of scripture. When I say the Sabbath is ceremonial I'm saying it has to do with an external form of religion. The Sabbath given by the hand of Moses is not limited to the passages you refer to, the Sabbath Law is expounded further in other areas of scripture so our understanding is not limited to Ex. 20. The Sabbath contains rites, ceremonial exactness, rules of social interaction and prescribed penalties for breaking it. When I asked how is it you keep the Sabbath no one can show me, using both Old and New Testaments, how I might keep the Sabbath...exactly.

If the ceremonial aspect of the Law is done away with I can make no profanation of the Sabbath for there is no Law to break. The Puritan Sabbath is completely out of context because it's isolated from the Laws that govern it. That’s why no one is able to answer the question as to how do you keep the Sabbath under the New Covenant or at least agree on what a Christian must do to keep the Sabbath...there is no scriptural answer. We end up with a day, not a Sabbath, that is out of harmony with scriptural Sabbatarianism. You can not keep the Sabbath without the totality of the Mosaic Law system, it was central to the Mosaic Covenant where we receive detailed instruction in how to keep it. These ceremonies are nothing but shadows, weak and beggarly elements of the substance and the substance is Christ!