alexandermsmith
Puritan Board Junior
That makes a lot of sense. Someone who needs to earn a living can do it on other days. Thank you for explaining that. Could you explain further the second paragraph? It seems like we pay attention to commands that are broken when we eat out, but not the table we eat on. Why is it? I think I'm close to getting it, but its just not clicking yet. Thank you for your patience.
1 Corinthians 10:25: Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
The table we sit at could well have been manufactured on the Sabbath and that is a sin but it is not our sin as we did not make it, nor commission its production knowing it would be made in violation of the Fourth Commandment. Culpability is a real thing but it does have limits. Where we cannot reasonably be expected to have knowledge of sin being mixed with something we buy we cannot be held accountable for that particular sin. That is not to say we shouldn't be diligent but it is to say that if we are to live in this world- which we are commanded to do- it is inevitable we will make lawful use of things which were produced unlawfully.