Your Sabbath Questions Answered

This question—Are we still under the law?—is often asked in an effort to diminish the law of God in the life of the Christian. It is said, “Since we are not under law but under grace, we do not need to keep the Ten Commandments any longer.”

But is this a valid point?

The Bible certainly does say that we are not under law, but does that imply that we are free from the obligation to obey it? The passage is found in Romans 6:14, 15: “Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.”

How easily we could prevent confusion if we accepted exactly what the Bible says. Paul ...

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Actually, we can be positive that our seventh day is the same day Jesus observed when He was here on Earth—the day He kept every week as the Sabbath. (See Luke 4:16.) The days of the week have never been confused. Here’s why some people ask this question …

Before 1582, the world went by the Julian calendar, named for the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar, who implemented it in 46 BC. The Julian calendar had calculated that it takes the earth 365-¼ days to orbit the sun. However, it actually takes about eleven minutes less than that. Those eleven minutes accumulated each year until, by 1582, the calendar was 10 days out of harmony with the solar system.

Upon tables of stone God wrote the great, unchanging law of the ages. Every word was serious and meaningful. Not one line was ambiguous or mysterious. Christians and non-Christians, educated and uneducated, have no problem understanding the simple, clear words of the Ten Commandments. God meant what He said and said what He meant.

Most of the ten begin with the same words: “You shall not,” but right in the heart of the law, we find the fourth commandment introduced with the word “Remember.” Why is this one different? God was commanding His people to call something to memory that existed but had been forgotten. Genesis describes ...

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