THOROUGH STUDY ON THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH
This was a thorough study done on what the Bible says about keeping God's holy seventh day Sabbath rather than the first day of week - a day chosen by men. It contains a multitude of Biblical evidence and historical evidence. It is worth the read and would make a good reference book too. I only found two things that I didn't like. First, the author comes off as a little aggressive and challenging instead of teaching this truth with love. But we can ignore that, right? The other thing is that he provides some Barna statistics at the beginning of his book that show how Christians rate the same as secular people when it comes to things such as pornography (for instance). As a minister and counselor myself, I have access to these statistics as well. And while I can vouch for the statistics for sure, I hesitate to claim that they exist because people aren't keeping the Sabbath. I am more inclined to believe that there statistics exist because the world believes lies about God and yet they pattern themselves after the God that they perceive. The Bible says that by beholding we become changed. When we behold an angry, punishing, judgmental God, we become angry, punishing, judgmental people. The idea of God as an angry, punishing judge did not come into Christian doctrine until around the time of Constantine. - the same time that God's holy Sabbath was changed by man to Sunday (several hundred years after the death and resurrection of Jesus). It is called penal substitution theology and it didn't exist in the original languages of the Bible. The myth of hell came into doctrine around the same time too. These were fear tactics that were utilized by the church of that time to increase church attendence, profit and obedience by the ignorant masses. God is only love and life and light and truth and goodness. If we were beholding this God, instead of the corrupted view of God that is pushed on us today (and has been ever since that time) then Christians would certainly look more like Jesus and a lot less like the rest of the world.