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    October 24, 1898

    “When’s and Why’s” The Bible Echo 13, 42, pp. 340, 341.

    ATJ

    WHEN the word of God speaks of the resurrection day as “the first day of the week,” and says that when that day came, “the Sabbath day according to the commandment” “was past,” why should anybody who has any respect for the word of God call that day the Sabbath? Luke 23:56; 24:1; Mark 16:1, 2.BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.1

    When the word of God says that “the Sabbath day according to the commandment” was past before the resurrection day, the first day of the week, came at all, why should anybody who has any respect for the word of God say that the Sabbath was changed to the first day of the week?BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.2

    By reading Luke 24:1-37 and Mark 16:9-14, we learn that the disciples did not believe that Jesus had risen on that first-day, when the day was almost gone. It was nearly ten days later before Thomas was convinced that Jesus was indeed risen. John 20:24-28. Then why should Christian people say the disciples kept the first-day “from the resurrection of Christ”?BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.3

    When Paul held his meeting at Troas (Acts 20:7), on a First-day evening (corresponding to our Saturday night), why did Luke and his companions put in their time sailing the vessel to Assos, if the first day of the week had become a sacred day?BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.4

    When there is not one command in the New Testament to regard the first day of the week as a sacred day, why do Christians observe it in the place of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment?BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.5

    When there is not one passage of Scripture in the whole New Testament that in any way mentions the first day of the week as the Sabbath in the Christian dispensation, why should the followers of Jesus call it a holy day?BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.6

    The majority of Christians who observe Sunday as a holy day keep it as a memorial of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Why should they do so when Bible baptism (immersion) was instituted as a memorial of that event? See Romans 6:1-3; Colossians 2:12.BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.7

    In Revelation 1:10 John speaks of being “in the Spirit of the Lord’s day.” Why should any one assume that this was the first day of the week, when there is no scripture in the whole Bible that speaks of that day as the Lord’s day, and WHEN there are passages that speak of the Sabbath—the seventh day—by that term? See Exodus 20:8-11; Isaiah 58:13; Mark 2:27, 28.BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.8

    When the Sabbath command is just as plain as any other commandment in the Bible, why should we not receive it just as we do the others? See Matthew 5:17-20.BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.9

    When there is no record of a change of the Sabbath by Christ, who made the Sabbath, why should Christians seek to find a record of the change in early church history?BEST October 24, 1898, page 340.10

    When the church at the time of the apostles had no more authority to change God’s law than at the present time, why should people say that the church of that time changed the Sabbath, the fourth commandment, and deny the right of the church of this time to change any other commandment of God?BEST October 24, 1898, page 341.1

    When Protestants claim that “the primitive church” could and did of right change the Sabbath, the fourth commandment, and when the church at Rome was of that primitive church, why should they (and how can they) deny the right of the later church, of which the church at Rome is a part, to change any part of the word of God that she may choose to change, when they admit that the church at Rome is still “a part of the true church,” and especially when the church at Rome can show a direct descent from primitive time?BEST October 24, 1898, page 341.2

    In short, when Protestants plant themselves on papal ground at the beginning, why should they not stay on it at the end? A. T. JONES.BEST October 24, 1898, page 341.3

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