WAS THE SABBATH CHANGED BY CHRIST?
By R. W. Rogers
HAD Christ changed the Sabbath, and had the apostles kept the first day of the week for the Sabbath, how natural and consistent it would have been for the Jews, while bringing charges against Paul, James, and the other apostles, not only to charge them with disregarding the law of circumcision, but also with violating the “Jewish Sabbath,” and teaching all men to honor the first day of the week as the Sabbath; but the Jews brought no such charge against them. While Stephen was delivering his sermon recorded in the seventh chapter of Acts, how strange that he did not mention the change of the Sabbath! Had the day been changed at the resurrection of Christ, surely Stephen would have known something about it at the time he gave that sermon that so excited the Jews. No; let us believe the plain declarations of the word of God, and not hang to old traditions. Will it pay in the great day? The eagerness of some to cling to tradition reminds me of the language of Peter in his second epistle, chap. 3:16; for many wrest the words of Inspiration to their own destruction. R. W. ROGERS.