So I went away for a while, and come back, and low and behold, RND is still discussing the Sabbath.Here are my two cents again.We should all throw away the child-like view of the law, which is that it is absolute. The written law is not absolute, it is indicative only of the absolute Law which is eternal. The Eternal Law dictates what right laws are, given context, just as Wisdom dictates to the wise what the wise thing to do in a particular situation is. Just because the determining circumstantial factor happens to be universal does not make the law itself absolute. Beyond this, we can determine, I believe, that the Sabbath is not a universal law by any means, for it rests on the system of a seven day week being universal. Man was not created for the Sabbath, but the Sabbath for Man. The Sabbath is the day of rest prescribed by the rule and authority of the Torah to those who would follow under it, letting the Laws of God, dictated by the Prophets and priests to the Jewish people, lead them. Not practicing the Sabbath is akin to not performing a given ceremony. It is ordained by God, yes, but only to the Jews, and only under the guiding light of the Torah. No other culture, or prophet of God in any other culture, ever was required to obey such a strange and foreign custom.Not Zoroaster, not Balaam, not Confucius, not any of them who worshiped one God, the only God.The reality is that the Sabbath was not ordained or revealed to anyone save the Jews. Recall that the Laws were written in accordance with man's flaws {as I have previously made painfully clear}, but the Eternal law, which 'IS', is what is written on the hearts of the faithful. We have the witness of Scripture to lead us into understanding as a faithful guide. Not one of the laws are absolute, as they never were, and never will be. They are the Truth, the righteous path, given the circumstances and the context in which they were given. Some of those circumstances are universally experienced, making the law seemingly absolute, such as not killing another person {or murdering}, seeing as they are people and you have no right to kill one whom you should love as a child of God, and as your very flesh. However, even killing in particular circumstances was required of us by God, and indeed required at times by us, of God.Telling a non-jew that they must obey the Sabbath, when they don't even have a seven day week system, is like commanding an orphan to honor their parents.You lack a complete understanding of Torah, and you fail to see it's proper application.~Shalom Elechem