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Perspectives on the Sabbath: Four views is unavailable, but you can change that!

Perspectives on the Sabbath presents in point-counterpoint form the four most common views of the Sabbath commandment that have arisen throughout church history, representing the major positions held among Christians today. Skip MacCarty (Andrews University) defends the Seventh-day view which argues the fourth commandment is a moral law of God requiring us to keep the seventh day (Saturday) holy....

Although I agree with MacCarty’s exegesis up to this point, I disagree with his conclusion. In commenting on verse 9, he asserts that since the epistle to the Hebrews demonstrates how the priesthood and sacrifices were fulfilled in Christ, one would expect the same to be said of the Sabbath if it were to be abrogated. He writes, “In Hebrews 3–4 he went to equal lengths to affirm that ‘there remains, then, a Sabbath-rest [sabbatismos, Sabbath observance] for the people of God’ (4:9). In other words,
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