To which you'd get the answer: So ? They wouldn't see any greater significance other than God blessing THAT particular 7th day, say it was a part of the Old Covenant, say that Him blessing it doesn't make it a law and then pointing to Romans 13 and saying it was a matter of liberty which day YOU choose to worship on.
Honestly, I haven't ran across any that use the Hebrews 3-4 argument. Aside from my first pastor and John MacArthur, most dispies I know stay clear of Hebrews 2-6 with only occasional jumps into 6:1-9, 7, skip 8 and go to 9, 10 and 11, ignore 13 or hardly preach from it. While most classic and some modified dispies still think Hebrews 8's citation of Jeremiah 31 is for some future period, when
I was brought up (and my old pastor studied under Ryrie), we were briefly ran through just those verses and shown how they were OT citations fulfilled by Christ in the NT (minus all the other info surrounding it so we couldn't connect it all together).
The major thing that began unraveling dispensationalism for me a few years back was Romans 11:1-6 followed up by Galatians 3:29, since if they were true (and with the dispensationalist 'literal interpretation', they HAVE to be taken as written), then the only 'real' "Israel" today would be those in Christ. After that, one thing after another cascaded and I ended up becoming a progressive dispensationalist (some of my posts from those days are still on this board) and THAT pushed me straight over to covenant theology.
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Originally Posted by DMcFadden  Honestly, I think that for many of them the issue is the Pauline dicti regarding preferencing one day over another and the way in which Hebrews seems to interpret the Sabbath. |
As for me personally, Hebrews 3-4 and Col. 2:16-23 are still problem areas for me regarding the Sabbath....or rather, regarding a
strict sabbath observance as a
law rather than an exercise of wisdom and a good use of time as a gift from the Lord. But I don't think this is just a dispie issue, since there are many 'reformed' folks who don't hold to a strict Sabbath observance for the same exegetical reasons.