Nearly every reason conceivable by a surface reading of Scripture has apparently convinced the ardent Sabbath objectors that there is no good reason to consider they may be on a misguided course.
But look at how inconsistent the methods are to do away with something that would require a decision to make a change in faith and practice. I, myself, didn't have so many wildly different appeals to abandon my decision to start keeping the Bible Sabbath ringing in my ears 34 years ago.
Of course, I don't even have the space to itemize, much less address them all in one post.
The enemies of the Lord's Sabbath have witnessed these inconsistencies, and evidently chosen not to address them, presumably to effect what they perhaps perceive to be the "greater good" of getting that last stubborn nail in the coffin of the Sabbath of the LORD.
Very, very few of the objections pose any novel threat to the Sabbatarian case.
One objector has stated, as so many do, that it's a shame this issue is dividing folks who claim to be followers of Christ but then proceeds to give a lengthy statement of the case against the Sabbath, carefully inserting a little denominational chest-pounding which, sadly betrays the underlying sentiment that it's okay, after all, to be divided on the issue—as long as you're on the poster's side of that divide.
So division is not the primary concern. We know that from the Bible itself:
1 Corinthians 11:19 NKJV — For there must also be factions among you, that those who are approved may be recognized among you.
1 Corinthians 11:19 NIV — No doubt there have to be differences among you to show which of you have God’s approval.
Another poster says that we can't be imposing "Mosaic law" on one another, otherwise we should be collecting wives, selling our daughters as sex slaves, and that if we want to live like Jews we should just convert and stop contaminating the "Christian gene pool," so to speak.
But if we're going to use the favorite anti-deity arguments of Atheist skeptics to impeach Sabbatarianism, should Sabbatarians start suggesting that these arguers should just go ahead and convert to Atheism? I think not.
Others incessantly insist that keeping all Ten Commandments instead of just nine indicates an unquestionable attempt to earn salvation by works of the law which is so mind-numbingly bizarre that, after hearing this—I'll just say it—INCREDIBLY IDIOTIC ARGUMENT so many thousands of times I can barely feel around in my numbed mind to find two brain cells to rub against each other to address it. It's honestly like telling a child for the ten thousandth time that they can't have some unnecessary indulgence at the grocery store.
I believe with all of my heart that none of you folks are actually stupid enough to believe the unqualified nonsense that folks who voluntarily surrender one-seventh of their time to focus especially on God and His gifts of creation and redemption are doing so to purchase, in part or in full, their own eternal life. Just not buying it. So please, please stop using it as a ploy to impede meaningful discussion about the issue.
And, then, we've got a few posters who will flatly tell you that the Sabbath is anything and everything except what it actually is—while apparently discovering all of this virtually as they're posting the stuff.
Look, I really don't mean to be insulting—and I freely confess that I'm not above that sort of thing—but as an old pastor I knew once said, hyperbolically, of course: "When things that pertain to eternal life are being considered, it's a really bad idea to be so open-minded that your brain falls out."
And the last one I'd like to touch on is this idea that Christ's teaching on the law, in general, and the Sabbath, in particular, in the Gospels was somehow geared toward the people he was speaking to at the time in such a way as to tutor them on a supposedly "Old Covenant" means of salvation by works that was very shortly to become obsolete, as if His magnified instruction related to the other nine commandments could somehow be exclusive of such a stipulation.
Absolute Hogwash, it is.
It couldn't possibly be obsolete because IT NEVER EXISTED!!!
The closest thing we have in human history to a person earning eternal life by works of the law is the Person of the LORD Jesus Christ HIMSELF who purchased the eternal life of every human being who has ever been or will ever be saved by His own works of the law. And by "works of the law," I mean precisely everything that was required of a man by God, including the laws and ordinances of both the Old and New Covenants!!!!
I mean that He presented Himself at Jerusalem at 12 years of age, never looked upon a woman to lust after her, He was never angry with a fellow human being without cause, He was baptized, washed the feet of His brethren, and partook of the Lord's Supper. He did all these things to fulfill ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS, and because God commended His love for us in that, while we were without strength, nay, while we yet sinners, nay more, while we were THE ENEMIES OF GOD, Christ died for our sins (Romans 5).
He did all of this for us because even our most well-intentioned efforts at doing them ("saved" or "unsaved") are imperfect, nay, filthy and in no way qualified as acceptable to a holy and perfect God and His secure and perfect universe outside of our polluted reach.
Today is a high Preparation Day for me as it (however imperfectly) marks the anniversary of The Ultimate Sacrifice. Christ's death on the cross of Calvary has far-reaching effects that are so high above even Christians' perceptions that it humbles me to shame and yet, thankfully, raises me to praise and gratitude that He would do all He has done and is still doing to secure the universe for those who love His appearing.