The Nugget:
Gal 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. (KJV)
My Comment:
I read today in a Facebook post claims regarding the beliefs of Seventh Day Adventists taken from Testimonies for the Church, pages 223-224.
No name which we can take will be appropriate but that which accords with our profession and expresses our faith and marks us a peculiar people. The name Seventh-day Adventist is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God and those who worship the beast and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast. It is because the saints are keeping all ten of the commandments that the dragon makes war upon them. If they will lower the standard and yield the peculiarities of their faith, the dragon will be at peace; but they excite his ire because they have dared to raise the standard and unfurl their banner in opposition to the Protestant world, who are worshiping the institution of papacy.
Testimonies for the Church (Vol. 1, p. 223). (1855). Pacific Press Publishing Association.
There is more, but you can see that I have this material in my Logos Bible software library.
My Response to the Opening Post which contained the above material:
I have also answered SDA’s claims in discussions on my Real Bible Study site.
Response to my comment by EG:
[It] is easy to make a claim of “false claims” and you think any reasonable people will buy it ? Is just your opinion. Regardless, I refer to my previous comment. God bless you
My Response to EG:
What I claim is not “just [my] opinion”!
Here is the referenced Note for Galatians 4:10 from my Ultimate Cross Reference Treasury:
years. Sabbatic years, and years of jubilee. While it is improbable that the Galatian churches had actually been observing a year of jubilee, yet if they observed the least of the ceremonial days, they acknowledged the principle, and it was as though they had observed them all. The Apostle had heretofore mentioned only circumcision as indicative of the declension of the Galatian believers. But of course they could not draw the line at that; once they put themselves under the law, they became debtors to do all the law enjoined (Gal 5:3). Moreover, the religious observance of days [including the Sabbath] is inconsistent with the spirit of the gospel; to keep a day is a tacit admission that that day is, in some sense, holier than other days, whereas, to the Christian, every day is holy (see Hogg & Vine, pp. 202, 203).
Paul received his doctrine directly by revelation from our Lord Jesus Christ (Gal 1:12). The gospel Paul preached and taught did not include the necessity of Sabbath observance. Paul criticizes the Galatians for listening to the Judaizers that had come among them, and warned them that to follow their lead would be to deny Christ, and lose the benefit of Christ’s death for them (Gal 2:21; Gal 5:2), and make Paul’s labour to bring them the gospel utterly in vain (Gal 4:11). Falling from grace (Gal 5:4) surely means loss of salvation.
Paul nowhere in Galatians suggests that the Galatians had gone this far (Gal 3:26), and speaks of them as brethren (Gal 4:12), but the warning is clear. While Paul grants some degree of liberty in the matter of choice of day of worship (see Rom 14:5, 6), yet he clearly teaches here that to observe the Sabbath as a matter of keeping the Fourth Commandment is to turn back, thus to turn away from Christ, to place one under bondage (Gal 4:9).
It is very striking that the Fourth Commandment is never once given as a command in the New Testament, though the other nine are repeated as commands for Christians [(1) Exo 20:3 with Col 3:5 and 1Jn 5:21; (2) Exo 20:4 with Act 17:29 and 2Co 6:16, 17; (3) Exo 20:7 with Rom 2:24, 1Ti 6:1, and Jas 5:12; (4) Exo 20:8 but not enjoined in the NT, though mentioned as observed by Jesus (Luk 4:16) and the Jews (Luk 23:56); (5) Exo 20:12 with Luk 18:20 and Eph 6:1, 2; (6) Exo 20:13 with Mar 10:19 and Rom 13:9; (7) Exo 20:14 with Mat 5:27, 28 and Jas 2:11; (8) Exo 20:15 with Mat 19:18 and Rom 13:9; (9) Exo 20:16 with Luk 18:20 and Rom 13:9; (10) Exo 20:17 with Luk 12:15 and Rom 7:7; Rom 13:9].
Christians never met for specifically Christian worship on the Sabbath in order to keep the Sabbath. In obedience to the command of Christ (Acts 1:8), Jewish Christians attended the Synagogue on the Sabbath for witness to the Jews, not for Christian worship. They regularly met upon the first day of the week (Act 20:7 note. 1Co 16:2) for Christian worship and fellowship.
The Sabbath was never changed to Sunday. Jews still worship on the Sabbath, but properly taught Christians worship Christ on the First Day of the week, and have done so since the beginning of the New Testament Church. See related note at Isa 58:13 note. Lev 25:2, 3, 4, 5; Lev 25:8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
hello jerry enjoying your posting of gal 4.10 Romans 14. 5 is another good one
on the discussion One person one day above another; another esteems every day
alike Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. the whole chapter of Romans 14
has been blessing many !