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I am privileged to be able to offer an alternative insight into the complicated world of Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) theology. I will rely heavily on the Bible, but will also consider history and use logic in exposing deficiencies in SDA teachings. I would ask anyone who is considering becoming a SDA or if you are already in the SDA church, but are searching for the truth, to please allow me to offer a different explanation for the claims of the SDA. Remember : "The truth will set you free" (John 8:32). I can answer your questions pertaining to the beliefs and history of the SDA. I am not able to answer questions concerning spirituality or church discipline.
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I have extensively studied the theology of the Seventh-Day Adventists (SDA) for a number of years. I have many books and tape sets produced by experts in this field of study. I have debated current members of the SDA church. I have a great desire to help these people see the truth.
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M.S. degree in Food, Nutrition, and Dietetics
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You are here: Experts > Religion/Spirituality > Christianity - Protestantism > Seventh-Day Adventists > Why is the Sabbath bondage?
Expert: Sal - 10/31/2009
Question
Dear Sal:
Why do you say that the Sabbath is bondage?
God Bless,
Mark
Answer
Dear Mark:
I say that because that is what the Bible says. The Ten Commandments were the heart of the Old Covenant.
“Moses was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant—the Ten Commandments” (Exodus 34:28).
“He declared to you his covenant, the Ten Commandments, which he commanded you to follow and then wrote them on two stone tablets” (Deuteronomy 4:13).
The Sabbath was the sign of that covenant.
"Say to the Israelites, 'You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy” (Exodus 31:13).
“The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested" (Exodus 31:16-17).
The Old Covenant was slavery to all who were subject to it.
“These things may be taken figuratively, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar. Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present city of Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children” (Galatians 4:24-25).
What was given at Mount Sinai? The Old Covenant, most notably the Ten Commandments.
Paul used Hagar to represent the Old Covenant and he says, “she is in slavery with her children.” Her children are all those who follow that covenant which included the Sabbath. So the Sabbath is part of the covenant that brings slavery or bondage to those who observe it.
God Be With You,
Sal
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