Is God Particular? by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 23.

Is God Particular?

By Editor

IN a letter which we recently heard read, the following sentence occurred: "I do not think God is particular about what day we keep." We thought, What reason has that man for thinking so? How does he know what will please God, and what will not? Has he access to sources of information which are denied to the rest of us? Evidently he has no means of knowing God's will, except the Bible.

That says: "The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work." It also says that we should honor God by turning away our feet from the Sabbath, from doing our pleasure on God's holy day; and to show the importance of honoring God, we read: "Them that honor me I will honor, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed." Still further, as a practical illustration of the above, we find that the Lord allowed the Israelites to be carried into captivity, and their city destroyed, simply because they did not remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Read Jer. 17:21-27; 2 Chron. 36:14-21; Neh. 13:15-18. Our conclusion, then, is this: No man has any right to "think" that God is any different from what he is represented in the Bible; and our reading of the Bible convinces us, as it must any one who takes the Bible alone, that God is particular whether or not men keep his Sabbath. And "the seventh day is the Sabbath."