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In The Lost Meaning of the Seventh Day, Sigve K. Tonstad recovers the profound and foundational understanding of God that can be experienced in the seventh day. He shows that Scripture has consistently asserted that the Sabbath of Creation is the Sabbath of the whole story of how God makes right what has gone wrong in the world. Tonstad argues that the seventh day is the symbol of God’s...

The seventh day is like a jar buried deep in the sands of time, preserving a treasure long lost and forgotten. We have only partial knowledge of the factors that caused this jar to disappear, but we are nevertheless in a position to predict what will happen when the treasure is recovered. The seventh day will speak again its native voice of blessing (Gen. 2:1–3). It will illuminate the most basic question of human existence because it exposes the bedrock of what it means to be human. It will not
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