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Rome's Challenge (Part 1)

Article by Staff

The Adventists are the only body of Christians who, with the Bible as their teacher, find no warrant in its pages for the change of the worship day from the seventh to the first. Their cardinal principle consists in setting apart Saturday for the exclusive worship of God, in conformity with the positive command of God Himself, repeatedly reiterated in the sacred books of the Old and New Testaments, literally obeyed by the children of Israel for thousands of years, and endorsed by the teaching and practice of the Son of God whilst on earth. Per contra, Protestants of the world, the Adventists excepted, with the same Bible as their sole infallible teacher, have rejected the day named for His worship by God and assumed a day never once referred to for that purpose in the Sacred Volume. Israelites and Adventists both appeal to the Bible for the divine command, persistently obliging the strict observance of Saturday. The Adventists, as Christians, accept both the Old and New Testaments as inspired records, finding that the Bible is consistent in both parts, and that the Redeemer, during His mortal life, never kept any other day than Saturday. The Gospels plainly evince this fact, whilst in the Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse, not the vestige of an act canceling the Saturday arrangement can be found. Numerically considered, the Seventh-day Adventists form an insignificant portion of the Protestant population, but as the question is one of truth and right, a strict sense of justice forbids condemnation of this little sect without calm and unbiased investigation. The Protestant world has been, from its infancy in the sixteenth century, in thorough accord with keeping holy not Saturday, but Sunday. If the arguments furnished by the Israelites and Adventists, appealing to their common teacher, the Bible, prove incontrovertible, the great body of Protestants have no other recourse left than the admission that they have been teaching and practicing what is scripturally false for over three centuries. To add to the intensity of this blunder, it involves one of the most positive and emphatic commands of God to His servant, man: Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. No Protestant living today has ever yet obeyed that command if the Israelites and Seventh-day Adventists are correct. Both sides appeal to the Bible as their infallible teacher, and the question remains whether Saturday or Sunday is the day enjoined by God.

Rome's Challenge (Part 2)

Article by Staff

Protestantism recognizes no rule of faith except the Bible, yet the Bible nowhere gives Protestantism the authority to change the day of worship to Sunday.

Rome's Challenge (Part 4)

Article by Staff

'The day of the Lord' or 'the Lord's day' is not a reference to the fist day of the week (Sunday) but to the time of Jesus Christ's judgment at His return.

Is It Salvational? (Part One)

CGG Weekly by David C. Grabbe

Whether a matter is salvational is the wrong question. There is a better question and another approach to evaluating matters that will put us on better footing.

So Little Respect

Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)

To human nature, following Christ or keeping the Sabbath is such a big obstacle that all kinds of twisted reasoning to avoid keeping God's commands.

Belief with Obedience

Sermon by John O. Reid

Catholics and Protestants, because of lack of belief, do not find the Bible a sufficient guide to salvation. They claim to believe Christ, yet disobey.

The Commandments (Part Six)

Sermon/Bible Study by John W. Ritenbaugh

God gave the Sabbath to His people so they can know Him intimately. Idolatry, scattering, and captivity are the natural consequences of Sabbath-breaking.

Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part Fourteen)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

God has sanctified no day other than the Sabbath. Sunday worship is a pagan deviation, perpetuated by Gnosticism, a movement that despises God's laws.

Acts (Part Twenty-One)

Sermon/Bible Study by John W. Ritenbaugh

The phrase 'first day of the week' is used 8 times in scripture, but none does away with the Sabbath nor establishes Sunday as the 'Lords Day.'

The Fourth Commandment (Part 1)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

The Sabbath is a special creation, a very specific period of holy time given to all of mankind, reminding us that God created and is continuing to create.

The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part Twenty-Four)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

The days, months, and times of Galatians 4:10 do not refer to God's Holy Days (which are not weak or beggarly), but to pagan rites the Galatians came out of.

Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part Thirteen)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

The elect are not immune to antinomian deception, including the doctrine of eternal security, the total depravity of man, unconditional love, and cheap grace.

Hosea's Prophecy (Part Two)

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

Hosea is an account of Israel's unfaithfulness to the covenant with God, and the redemptive work of God to rescue His unfaithful spouse from slavery.

Sanctification and Holiness (Part 5)

Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh

God gives conditions for acceptable sacrifices and offerings, differentiating the holy and authentic from the defiled, unclean and strange.