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Originally Posted by AVT  As to the "positive, moral and perpetual" basis for the Fourth Commandment, the Westminster Confession has these proof texts:
Exodus 20:8, 10-11
Isaiah 56:2,4,6-7
Genesis 2:2-3
I Corinthians 16:1
Acts 20:7 |
The problem with this is that there is no real disagreement over what these texts say but rather their import. What is required is to demonstrate how they fit into the meta-narrative of Scripture. The article attempts to do this but it goes wrong when is says that the sabbath was fulfilled by Christ therefore there is no weekly-sabbath anymore, what he fails to realise is that the Lord's day looks backwards to the exodus of the Cross and forward to the eternal rest of the new heavens and new earth. There is a future rest that we must labour to enter into.
Hebrews 4:9-11 "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief."