The Sabbath and Physical Rest
THE Lutheran Observer, in common with all Sunday advocates, says: "The appointment of the Sabbath was founded upon the physical constitution of man." But the Bible tells us that the Sabbath was instituted before the fall (Gen. 2:2, 3), and consequently before man stood in need of physical rest; and in the only Sabbath law God ever gave to man, the reason assigned for the observance of the day is the fact of the Creator's rest upon it. See Ex. 20:8-11. Which is the better authority, the Scriptures of truth, or men who are attempting to justify themselves in foisting upon the world a counterfeit Sabbath? But there is a reason for thus ignoring the fact of the Creator's rest, and of the memorial character of the Sabbath; it is the fact that the day now generally observed as the Sabbath is not the memorial of God's rest. Sunday serves the purpose of physical rest, but it has no connection whatever with the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, and is absolutely without moral significance.