David in NJ
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It certainly gives me great joy but it is no new discovery nor a surprise at all.
It just goes to show that the rest that comes from abiding in God's grace as a whole, while all-encompassing, is distinct from the admittedly subordinate, yet no less necessary rest that comes weekly via the fourth commandment provision, and if men called "Jews" needed it under the Old Covenant, then men today—who are no different in biological composition but have more stress and tension due to increasing evil—need it as much if not even more.
There seems to be a wildly ironic, comprehensive misunderstanding that a Christian lifestyle that includes weekly observance of the Sabbath day precludes the experience of appreciating the substitutionary atonement.
On the contrary, it simply cannot be overstated how essential the weekly Sabbath is to maintaining an awareness of the amazing grace of God that sustains and transforms life both physically and spiritually throughout the entire week.
As long as this presupposition prevails among Sabbath objectors there is likely to be little consensus among Christians who simply will not consider the religious implications of divinely-designed circaseptan biology and those whose consciences will afford them no such assumed luxury.
Even the scientific community is coming to recognize this and no amount of postmodern philosophy applied to traditional interpretations of Scripture will succeed in unseating it.
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"is distinct from the admittedly subordinate, yet no less necessary rest"
Necessary??? for what?